Senior Network Security Engineer

This position will follow our hybrid work model, we expect the selected candidate to be in office 2-3 days a week at one of the following Corporate Office locations: St. Petersburg, FL; Southfield, MI; Denver, CO

Job Summary:

The Senior Network Engineer is responsible for managing, designing and improving RJ's enterprise network. He or she will assist network architects with design and implementation of network technologies. This role is responsible for senior level network engineering implementation and providing technical principles guidance to peer engineers, proactively taking technology project delivery from 0 to 100% with little to no supervision. General duties include leading buildout of solutions and driving innovation for implementation of new modern technologies in the enterprise network. Partners with management and peer engineers to drive infrastructure modernization projects to completion and provides Tier3 technical support using extensive expertise to take on work assignments the team is engaged in. Strong people skills and the ability to balance/prioritize between multiple tasks and projects are essential. This position does involve both routing and switching as well as network firewall implementation projects for both on-prem and cloud infrastructure.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Design, improve and innovate:

• Primary focus is to implement new technologies or changes to existing technologies as identified and designed by the architecture team.

• Researches and recommends innovative technologies and approaches for enterprise infrastructure management, upgrades, or improvements.

• Utilize and integrate network components such as switches, routers, firewalls, wireless AP/Controllers, SDN fabric components, load balancers, NAC servers and cloud infrastructure network elements.

• Proactively identify and implement network improvements to assure the performance, resiliency and redundancy of the network.

• Utilizes blueprints to engineer solutions and adhere to enterprise standards (engineering focused, architecture supported).

• Take disaster recovery and business continuity plan aspects into consideration for any new technology implementation or change.

Monitor, document and offer proactive support:

• Provides ad-hoc support for incidents requiring T3 level resources (engineering/architecture) and knowledge.

• Use Microsoft Visio to produce and maintain documentation with regards to implementation of new systems or system change

• Participate in 24x7 on call rotation for SME T3 support requirements as needed.

• Maintains service level agreements of departmental metrics, key performance indicators and adhering to strict project timelines.

• Maintain/Improve security posture, promptly addressing issues, vulnerabilities and security requirements according to regulatory guidelines (PCIDSS, PII, CIS, NIST)

Qualifications:

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Required:

• Strong experience in network design, implementation and documentation of medium-large scale enterprise networks (10,000+ users)

• Strong experience using cisco enterprise technologies - CCNP Enterprise (R&S) knowledge level required

• 1-2 years of experience in designing, implementing and maintaining data center spine leaf fabrics (Arista/Cisco). Arista ACE L3 certification required.

• 1-2 years of experience with Cisco DNA Center

• 1-2 years of Experience with SDWAN technologies (Cisco, Palo Alto ION)

• Experience with Cisco Wireless technologies in a large enterprise environment (Cisco WLC, FlexConnect, CAPWAP)

Desirable:

• Experience with designing, implementing and maintaining Palo Alto Centrally managed firewall platforms (NGFW Pan OS, Threat Prevention, UserID, Global Protect, HA setup, Prisma Access)

• Administering F5 Clusters, Load balancing, SSL decryption policies, DNS Geolocation (LTM, GTM, APM, ASM/Cloud WAF).

• Remote Access VPN solutions (Global Protect, F5 BIG-IP Edge)

• Certificate management (Venafi), Cryptographic protocols and algorithms, certificate PKI.

• Implementing NAC solutions (Forescout/Cisco ISE)

• Experience with Infoblox DNS/IPAM functions.

• Familiarity with cloud computing principles and experience in designing secure and scalable network solutions for cloud environments.

• Automation/scripting experience (Python, Ansible)

• Network security protocols, architecture and design principles; intrusion detection, prevention systems, secure socket layer (SSL) protocols, virtual private networks (VPNs),

• Network performance optimization, capacity planning and load balancing.

• Familiarity with the following monitoring platforms: Microsoft SevOne, SolarWinds, DataDog, Splunk)

Education/Previous Experience:

• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS or related degree and three (3) of relevant experience in assigned area or combination or education, experience and training.

Licenses/Certifications:

• Required: CCNP Enterprise (R&S), Arista ACE L3. Desirable: CCIE, PCNSE,JNCIP.

• Security and control certifications preferred (CISSP, CISM, CISA, CRISC).

Travel:

10% travel

Raymond James Guiding Behaviors

At Raymond James our associates use five guiding behaviors (Develop, Collaborate, Decide, Deliver, Improve) to deliver on the firm's core values of client-first, integrity, independence and a conservative, long-term view.

We expect our associates at all levels to:

• Grow professionally and inspire others to do the same

• Work with and through others to achieve desired outcome

• Make prompt, pragmatic choices and act with the client in mind

• Take ownership and hold themselves and others accountable for delivering results that matter

• Contribute to the continuous evolution of the firm