Network Engineer I: LAN/WAN & Security Focus

Populus Financial Group, Inc.; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K match

Paid time off

Health benefits

Job summary

Populus Financial Group, Inc. is seeking a Network Engineer I to oversee day-to-day maintenance, administration, and secure operation of ACE networks.

The role includes upgrades, installations, and documentation of network standards, with a focus on reliability and security in a fast-paced environment. You will work under guidance from the Network Manager, handling LAN/WAN changes, configuring FortiGate firewalls, F5 Big-IP, Cisco devices, and FortiNAC, while maintaining thorough documentation

Qualifications

• 2+ years data network (LAN/WAN/WLAN) administration experience in a Cisco environment implementing, monitoring, and maintaining interconnected networks required.

Responsibilities

• Support and follow guidance from the Network Manager and Lead Engineer in managing and administrating the company’s LAN/WAN environment, including moves, adds, and changes.
• Assist in maintaining local access switches and patch panel wiring, with the ability to troubleshoot physical network connectivity issues.
• Configure, support, and troubleshoot FortiGate firewalls, F5 Big-IP load balancers, Cisco IOS and NX-OS switches, FortiNAC, while ensuring all changes are communicated in compliance with change control policies.
• Assist in creating design and configurations for LAN/WAN networks.
• Develop and maintain documentation of processes, network configurations, and systems, including details on locations and configurations for all assigned projects and assets.
• Inform IS Operations and Networking Team of planned and unplanned system outages in a manner consistent with established communication, escalation and change control policies.
• Provide professional support to customers and employees via email, telephone, and face-to-face interaction.
• Collaborate with vendors and carriers to troubleshoot and implement solutions for production related, while improving standard operating procedures.
• Operate and configure network monitoring and configuration management software to detect anomalies, perform fault detection, analyze performance metrics, and generate reports to meet service level requirements.
• Participate in 24/7 on-call rotation, including being available after hours and on weekends to assist with issues.
• Complete administrative duties as assigned (e.g. ticket updates, status reporting, labor reporting, corporate training).
• Escalate to the manager if deadlines are at risk or if a project/task will not be completed as planned.

Skills

LAN/WAN administration

Cisco networking

Troubleshooting

Monitoring tools

Microsoft Visio

On-call support

Documentation

Education

Associate Degree or better

Tools

FortiGate

F5 Big-IP

Cisco IOS

NX-OS

FortiNAC

Job description

Populus Financial Group, Inc. is seeking a Network Engineer I to oversee day-to-day maintenance, administration, and secure operation of ACE networks.

The role includes upgrades, installations, and documentation of network standards, with a focus on reliability and security in a fast-paced environment. You will work under guidance from the Network Manager, handling LAN/WAN changes, configuring FortiGate firewalls, F5 Big-IP, Cisco devices, and FortiNAC, while maintaining thorough documentation