Senior Network Engineer

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Architects and administers all of the City’s enterprise networks, including infrastructure design, implementation, configuration, and maintenance of routers, firewalls, switches, VPN hardware, and wireless.
• Develops and maintains network architecture standards, logical/physical diagrams, and design documentation to support scalability, resiliency, and disaster recovery planning.
• Evaluates emerging networking and security technologies and makes recommendations on architecture upgrades, hardware refresh cycles, and capacity planning.
• Aids in the design and administration of the City’s server environment.
• Provides support of network infrastructure to ensure successful performance and secure operation of the enterprise network.
• Performs device configuration maintenance, firewall management & troubleshooting.
• Performs device and traffic monitoring, analysis, management and troubleshooting.
• Develops usage and security metrics to allow for the detection of abnormal activities.
• Administers overall network security, including planning and oversight of penetration and vulnerability testing performed internally or by third-party assessors.
• Performs security audits from internal and external parties.
• Investigates security incidents and researches and implements solutions.
• Identifies and remediates network vulnerabilities.

• Performs other similar duties as required.

• Enterprise network architecture and design principles, including redundancy, segmentation, and disaster recovery
• Networking methods, materials and equipment
• Enterprise switching and routing platforms
• Enterprise firewall administration, VPN, and security policy management
• Network protocols, including BGP, QoS policy design, data center networking, NAC/ 802.1X port-based authentication, cloud/hybrid connectivity and enterprise monitoring software

• Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) preferred
• Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP) or Cisco Certified Design Expert (CCDE) preferred
• Fortinet Network Security Expert 4 (NSE
  4) – Network Security Professional preferred
• Fortinet Network Security Expert 7 (NSE
  7) preferred
• EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) preferred
• EC-Council Certified Network Defender (CND) preferred
• Valid North Carolina Driver’s License

PLEASE NOTE:

Applicants must meet the City’s criteria for an acceptable driving record.

• Positions in this class require: vision, hearing, fine dexterity, sitting, talking, standing, walking, lifting, carrying, reaching, handling, kneeling, crawling, pushing/pulling, climbing, foot controls, balancing, crouching, twisting.
• Sedentary Work:
  Exerting up to 10 pounds occasionally or negligible weights frequently; sitting most of the time.

The intent of this job description is to provide a representative summary of the types of duties and responsibilities that will be required of the positions given this title and shall not be construed as a declaration of the specific duties and responsibilities of any particular position. Employees may be requested to perform job-related tasks other than those specifically presented in this description.

Fair Labor Standards Act (exempt/non-exempt) is designated by position. The employer actively supports Americans with Disabilities Act and will consider reasonable accommodations.