Network Engineer

About Parkar Digital:

Parkar Digital is a Hybrid-first company dedicated to hiring, retaining, and developing high-performing employees and teams with diverse backgrounds. We are a digital transformation and software engineering company headquartered in Atlanta, USA, and have our engineering teams across the US, India, and Latin America. Our solutions are powered by the Parkar platforms built using Cloud, Opensource, and Customer experience technologies. Parkar Digital offers an array of IT services across Cloud computing, Product development, Customer experience, Cybersecurity, and AI Engineering.

Parkar Digital, a Gold Certified Microsoft Azure partner, provides technology solutions for Digital Healthcare, Digital Retail & CPG. Our solutions are powered by the Parkar platforms built using Cloud, Opensource, and Customer experience technologies. Our goal is to empower a customer-first approach with digital technologies to deliver human-centric solutions for the clients.

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Job Description:

We are seeking an experienced Network/Security Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate should have at least 6 years of hands-on experience in network/security operations and be able to provide production support and design of various networking technologies. The candidate should also have excellent customer-facing communication skills, both written and verbal, and experience using a ticketing system or project management work tracking, notation keeping, and internal communications.

Responsibilities:

• Provide production support and design for core networking technologies including BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, routing and switching infrastructure from Cisco, Juniper, Arista, etc., and layer 2 technologies such as Spanning Tree, STP, RSTP, etc.
• Provide production support for two or more of the major firewall platforms including Cisco ASA, Fortinet FortiGate, Juniper SSG and ISG products, and Check Point NGX.
• Utilize packet capture/analysis packages such as Omni peek, Wireshark, etc. for network troubleshooting.
• Write design and implementation documents, Visio drawings, process documents, customer statements of work, etc.
• Obtain or willing to obtain relevant industry certifications such as CCNP, CISSP, etc.
• Support large-scale data center infrastructure environments.
• Support network virtualization technologies such as virtual firewalls, virtual load balancers, MPLS VRFs, Nexus 1000V, etc.
• Support the networking requirements for multi-tenant environments.
• Provide support and design for load balancer implementations including F5 LTM & GTM, V-Shield, Brocade, Riverbed, A10.
• Have expert-level knowledge of DNS.
• Have advanced knowledge of network monitoring/management technologies such as SNMP, Netflow, syslog, monitoring applications, etc.
• Have experience with various operating systems including Windows and various flavors of Linux.

• Work independently or with others to prioritize and organize effectively on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Operate in a fast-moving, team-oriented, collaborative environment with tight deadlines.
• Be proficient in using MS Office Suite and Windows-based computer applications.

Qualifications/Requirements:

• 4 years of hands-on network/security experience working in IT operations.
• Experience using a ticketing system or project management work tracking, notation keeping, and internal communications.
• Excellent customer-facing communication skills (both written and verbal).
• Base level understanding of core networking technologies including BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, routing and switching infrastructure from Cisco, Juniper, Arista, etc., and layer 2 technologies such as Spanning Tree, STP, RSTP, etc.
• 4 years of production support and design of the above technologies.
• 4 years of experience with network security technologies and best practices.
• 4 years of production support for two or more of the major firewall platforms including Cisco ASA, Fortinet FortiGate, Juniper SSG and ISG products, and Check Point NGX.
• Base level network troubleshooting skills utilizing packet capture/analysis packages such as Omni peek, Wireshark, etc.
• Experience writing design and implementation documents, Visio drawings, process documents, customer statements of work, etc.
• Obtained or willing to obtain relevant industry certifications (i.e., CCNP, CISSP, etc.).
• Adequate professional experience and knowledge to perform job responsibilities.
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to prioritize and organize effectively.
• Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Ability to work both independently and with others.
• Ability to operate in a fast-moving, team-oriented, collaborative environment with tight deadlines.
• Proficiency in using MS Office Suite and Windows-based computer applications.

Preferred Experience:

• Experience supporting large-scale data center infrastructure.