Cloud Network Engineer

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Job Description Summary
Jones Lang LaSalle, an international commercial real estate firm, is seeking a skilled and motivated cloud network engineer with expertise in traditional networking, cloud networking technologies, deployment automation, and modern segmentation platforms such as Illumio and Guardicore. The successful candidate will oversee the delivery of network architecture and implementations to our clients, ensuring exceptional quality and customer satisfaction. This role includes responsibility for firewall and network security engineering, micro-segmentation design and operations, and support across on-prem and cloud environments.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in firewall design, cloud networking, segmentation technologies, and both on-prem and cloud-based network security solutions.

Job Description

Jones Lang LaSalle, an international commercial real estate firm, is seeking a skilled and motivated cloud network engineer with expertise in traditional networking, cloud networking, deployment automation and micro-segmentation technologies to join our IT team. The successful candidate will be responsible for overseeing network architecture delivery, segmentation deployments, firewall security engineering, and cloud network operations. This includes design, implementation, and support of security frameworks using industry-leading platforms such as Illumio, Guardicore, and Palo Alto.

The ideal candidate will have strong experience in network segmentation, security policy design, firewall engineering, cloud networking, and managing complex hybrid environments.
Responsibilities
Implementation, Upgrades, Support & Troubleshooting
Hands-on experience with cloud networking, Palo Alto firewalls in Azure & AWS, and segmentation platforms such as Illumio Core/Cloud and Guardicore (Akamai Segmentation).

Implement and maintain micro-segmentation policies, including application dependency mapping, rule-set creation, and enforcement across hybrid workloads.

Experience designing and supporting segmentation architectures to enhance security posture and reduce lateral movement risks.

Strong understanding of zero-trust network segmentation principles and how they apply to enterprise network security.

Extensive experience implementing and maintaining firewalls and staying updated on newly released security vulnerabilities and their impact on the network.

Perform ongoing optimization of network security devices and segmentation platforms to ensure adequate capacity, availability, and scalability.

Implement, troubleshoot, and document network security infrastructures and segmentation deployments, including policy testing, traffic flows, and enforcement validation.

Expertise in modifying firewall rule sets, segmentation rules, changing security policies, whitelisting, content filtering, and troubleshooting traffic flows across firewalls, segmentation tools, routers, and switches.

Strong knowledge of Layer 4-7 app-aware firewalls and micro-segmentation traffic policies.

Establish and modify site-to-site VPNs and secure connectivity paths for segmented workloads.

Manage threat protection, URL blocking, IOC feeds, routers, switches, segmentation policies, and endpoint enforcement controls.

Periodically monitor firewall and segmentation agent health, performance, and capacity across global environments.

Participate in Change Management processes, including creating change requests, performing peer reviews, validating segmentation change impact, and executing firewall or segmentation modifications.

Develop detailed build and test plans for implementing firewalls and segmentation deployments.

Coordinate with IT teams to ensure standardized network and segmentation configurations, control frameworks, and enforcement practices.

Recommend enhancements to improve network reliability, segmentation accuracy, security posture, and operational performance.

Collaborate globally with IT teams-security, cloud, data center, and application teams-to resolve issues and ensure network/segmentation alignment.

Define reusable network and micro-segmentation patterns for branch, data center, and cloud environments.

Document segmentation deployments, firewall standards, policy frameworks, and…