Senior Network & Security Engineer

ENCS; Indiana (PA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

ENCS based in Indiana, Pennsylvania, is seeking a Senior Network & Security Engineer to lead networking projects. You will work closely with engineers to design and implement secure networking infrastructures while enhancing monitoring tools and addressing critical issues.

The ideal candidate requires 8+ years of networking experience, strong knowledge of both Palo Alto and Cisco technologies, and a collaborative team player attitude. The role includes various responsibilities from design to troubleshooting in both onsite and remote capacities.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of networking and systems experience supporting a variety of network technologies.
• Strong experience in Palo Alto and Cisco technologies with wildfire deployment.
• Knowledge of managing Digital Certificates and experience with network observability tools.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with network architects to design and implement company networks.
• Manage a resilient and secure landscape of networking components from routers to load balancers.
• Troubleshoot network issues and participate in on-call rotations as needed.

Skills

Networking technologies and communication protocols

Palo Alto and Cisco ASA

Automation experience/Cisco ACI

Network traffic analysis tools like Wireshark

Infrastructure monitoring platforms

Tools

Cisco ISE

PRTG

SolarWinds

Job description

Designation: Senior Network & Security Engineer

Reports To: TRU Manager

Department: TRU

Position Summary

We are looking for an experienced Senior Network and Security Engineer to be the lead on networking projects as part of a close-knit, high-performing team. An industry solutions professional who wants to work in a collaborative environment.

Job Responsibilities

• Collaborating with network architects, project managers and engineers to design and implement functional company networks.


• Design, build, implement, document, and manage a full landscape of resilient and secure networking components such as Routers, Firewalls, Switches, wireless equipment, and load balancers for environments ranging from small remote client locations to Data Centers and the cloud.


• Leverage observability tools to build and enhance monitoring, alerting, and config backups across the network topology.


• Quickly diagnose and troubleshoot a wide range of network issues, from end-host connectivity to traffic flows, with root cause analysis for reporting and the goal of future improvements.


• Manage Incident/Tickets, Change/Configuration Management/Problem management.


• Helped other engineers in resolving technical issues and guide them from a technical perspective.


• Act as an escalation point for break/fix issue resolution.


• Constantly innovating and improving our infrastructure and processes.


• Participate in on‑call rotation as needed and address critical issues during off hours as needed.


• Work onsite/remote at client locations as needed.

What We’re Looking For

• 8+ years of networking and systems experience supporting a wide variety of network technology and platforms, designing, and implementing complete network infrastructure, as well as integrating partial upgrades in a variety of environments, from network infrastructure to copper and fiber cabling, to configurations with the goal of having a system that is highly reliable and simple to manage.


• Proven and demonstratable knowledge of networking technologies and communication protocols (Routing (RIP/OSPF/EIGRP/BGP), Switching L2/L3, spanning tree/portfast, Wi‑Fi, VLANs, iSCSI, VPN, DNS, DHCP).


• Must have strong experience in Palo Alto and Cisco ASA. Must know in‑depth on APP-IDs, Content IDs, URL filtering, site to site VPNs and using Panorama/FTD for management. Must have wildfire deployment experience.


• Automation experience/Cisco ACI is a strong plus.


• Knowledge in PRISMA, NSX‑T, DNAC is a huge plus.


• Experience with Cisco ISE deployments is a huge plus.


• Must have strong experience in Cisco Viptela deployment. Experience in design and implementation of the majority of the following: Firewalls, DNS, IDS/IPS, WAF, anti‑virus, content filtering, data loss prevention, endpoint security, email security, network vulnerability scanning, incident management


• Excellent communication skills, creative problem solving, and strong passion is a must.


• Strong technical curiosity, security‑minded, and a “let’s figure it out” attitude.


• Knowledge of infrastructure monitoring platforms and protocols


• Knowledge of managing Digital Certificates, public DNS, private DNS.


• Experience with network traffic analysis using tools like Wireshark.


• Knowledge of managing Digital Certificates, public DNS, private DNS.


• Experience with network observability, management, and monitoring tools like PRTG, Auvik, SolarWinds, etc.

What Will Set You Apart

• Experience supporting various networking and firewall equipment ranging from SOHO to SMB to enterprise platforms.


• Energized and experienced with an agile environment where continuous delivery is practiced.


• Prior experience supporting projects.


• Prior experience in the MSP Industry.

Mandatory Items

Attitude of a team player is mandatory. If you are a team player, hard worker and have a humble mindset, ENCS is the place for you.