Senior Network Engineer – Cisco, Firewalls & WAN

Sonoma Consulting Inc.; Lansing (MI); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A consulting firm in IT is seeking a network engineer with at least 5 years of experience in Cisco routers, switches, and firewalls. Candidates should be familiar with Checkpoint and Palo Alto firewalls, as well as load balancers such as F5. This role requires expertise in IP Address management, WAN acceleration technologies, and network management tools. Ideal candidates will be responsible for the design and operations of secure networks including VPNs and remote access technologies.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience with Cisco routers, switches, and firewalls.
• Experience with Checkpoint and/or Palo Alto firewalls.
• Familiarity with load balancers such as F5 or Citrix Netscaler.
• Proficiency in design, configuration, and operations of IP Address/DHCP management.
• Experience in implementing WAN acceleration technologies like Silver Peak or Riverbed.

Responsibilities

• Design, configure, implement and operate Cisco technologies.
• Perform operations with site-to-site VPNs and remote access technologies.
• Utilize network management platforms like SolarWinds Orion.

Skills

Cisco routers, switches and firewalls

Checkpoint firewalls

Load balancers

IP Address / DHCP management

WAN acceleration technology

network analysis tools

routing protocols

L2 protocols

DWDM switches

Cisco Wireless technology

site-to-site VPNs

remote access technologies

network-management platforms

scripting languages

authentication systems

Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)

Job description

A consulting firm in IT is seeking a network engineer with at least 5 years of experience in Cisco routers, switches, and firewalls. Candidates should be familiar with Checkpoint and Palo Alto firewalls, as well as load balancers such as F5. This role requires expertise in IP Address management, WAN acceleration technologies, and network management tools. Ideal candidates will be responsible for the design and operations of secure networks including VPNs and remote access technologies.