MANDATORY SKILLS/EXPERIENCE
- Minimum 10 years of experience in the field of networking, network security and firewalls
- Must have hands-on experience with Palo Alto, Checkpoint and Cisco firewalls.
- Deep understanding and experience of DNS, NTP, BGP and other critical infrastructure protocols.
- Must understand BGP, MPLS, OSPF, IS-IS routing protocols in a large environment.
- Deep understanding on routing, load balancing and networking infrastructure.
DESIRABLE SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:
- Hands on experience in Cisco and Palo Alto firewall technology
- Additional experience in the field of load balancing.
- Good project management skills
- Ability to simultaneously work on multiple projects
TASKS:
- Participate in design meetings and reviews from a security and network perspective on assigned priority projects.
- Propose networking security architecture to meet the business requirements and while adhering to OTI's best practices guidelines.
- Collaborate with OTI's Architect teams for developing operable solutions for Citywide requirements.
- Complete all requirements for installing new network or firewall devices.
- Follow OTI process for new devices provisioning of integrated systems.
- Configure ports, configure firewalls, and apply the base templates configurations,
- integrate the appliances into production network.
- Develop and validate base configurations for operational use.
- Create and review method-of-procedure for the change to be executed during the
- approved change window.
- Open TAC cases as needed and identify root causes.
- Review and implement network optimizations, network resilience and network failover testing as directed.
- Develop plan and strategy for complex network upgrades.
- Complete any additional tasks assigned by the manager.