Description:
The Senior Network Engineer’s primary role is to support and manage Planet’s 24x7 Network, primarily focusing on our European locations but may also be require supporting our US and ASIAPAC locations.
You are a solutions specialist of Fintech grade network management talent, versed in Next Gen Firewalls, Switches, Routers, Load Balancers, Server Administration, NAC’s, Circuit Administration, Wireless AP’s and End User System Components.
You will work closely with our NOC, SYS Ops, Database and Helpdesk teams to prepare, configure, deploy, support and troubleshoot real-time platform systems serving operational services and online transactional processing in direct support of Planet’s global portfolio and financial objectives.
What you will do
- Designing, implementing, maintaining, and supporting local and remote portions of the PCI-DSS enterprise financial network.
- Deploy InfoSec-approved DC architecture based on existing best of breed design and emerging trends.
- Management of Campus/Partner connectivity via LL, VPN (IPSEC and SSL) & SDWAN
- SSL/TLS certificate management.
- Application Delivery management via DEV/QA/UAT/Prod support.
- Triage support for all LAN/WAN/Cloud related operations and infrastructure.
- Manage circuit provisioning, activations, and troubleshooting.
- Conducting regular security assessments of the enterprise IT environment.
- Participating in design and strategy meetings for assigned IT projects for the enterprise.
- Evaluating existing communications systems, identifying deficiencies and making network performance recommendations.
- Installing and configuring Physical Servers, Host VM’s and Data/Voice Communications equipment as needed.
- Responsible for performing off-hours maintenance as required.
Who you are
- Fast paced and holds a high level of responsibility to ensure team objectives, issues and business concerns are dealt with in a timely manner.
- Ability to work with geographically disperse external/internal cohorts and outside financial partners while assisting AP based directives.
- Effectively respond to escalation requests.
- Rotating on-call support and resource alignment of time.
Desired Skills
- IPS, DDOS, 802.1X, NAC, ISE, AV implementation experience.
- ISO 8583, PCI-DSS, GDPR compliance and standardization.
- Scripting in TCL, Python a, knowledge of VMware ESX, Whitebox Switching/Cumulus Linux, Wireshark/PCAP, ELK, Wazuh, FortiClient.
- F5 LTM, Fortinet FortiGate’s, FortiAP’s, Mellanox. Cisco MLS platform’s, Checkpoint/SPLAT familiarity.
- Network+/KCA/CCNA/CCNP/NSE4/CISSP preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education and/or experience.
What you will need to bring to Planet
- Demonstrable experience in LAN/WAN, MPLS, QOS, multicast and core networking discipline, including advanced routing protocols, BGP, OSPF and IP converged networks
- Proficient OSI layer 1-7 troubleshooting. Ability to analyse, trace and understand a Packet along a transaction lifecycle end-to-end.
- Circuit, Vendor, Partner relationship and tracking experiencing.
- 1 - 3 years of experience in an enterprise level Network engineering role, which includes network administration experience with Cisco, Fortinet, F5, Checkpoint, Kubernetes/K8S, Mellanox, Azure and other quadrant-defined vendors.
- Working experience with next generation architectures: private/public/hybrid cloud, containers and hyper-converged infrastructure.
- Knowledge of network domain administration, platforms and principles, to include route/switch protocols, WAN/LAN, wireless networking, datacentre, high-availability design, Application Delivery Controller, Web Application Firewall, Domain Name Service and IP management, Cloud Platforms, Denial of Service Protection, Data Analytics and Network Monitoring.