Senior Network & Security Engineer — Remote

Wescom Financial; Anaheim (CA); Hybrid; USD 128,000 - 199,000; Full time

Job summary

Wescom Financial seeks an experienced technical leader to support the Vice President of IT Operations in designing and implementing networks, security and telecommunications systems. You will design, modify, configure, test and deploy network and telephony applications while guiding staff through complex deployments.

You will analyze system requirements, stay current with evolving technologies, build strong internal relationships, and provide practical guidance to ensure secure, reliable

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree and six to eight years of experience in network, security, telecom or IT systems development.
• Equivalent experience level may offset educational requirement.
• Must demonstrate a good working knowledge of moderately complex systems, including experience with EIGRP, F5, Palo Alto, BGP, OSPF, SD-WAN, VPN, IDS, IPS, TACACS, RSA.
• Professional certifications such as CCNP, CCIE, MCSE or security certifications preferred.
• Ability to solve problems quickly and completely.
• A solid understanding of networking/distributed computing environment concepts including emerging software defined networks and CCaaS systems.
• Solid understanding the principles of routing, firewalls and phone system configurations and programming.
• Possess excellent communication skills, with an emphasis on verbal and written communication.
• Ability to multi-task and stay organized in a dynamic work environment.
• Participate in development of long-range planning for new projects and environments.
• Experience and ability to teach or instruct co-workers.
• Providing advice, training and technical support for various projects.
• Working closely with management team in evaluating current systems and making decisions on future networking and telecommunication processes.
• As new technologies emerge and impact our systems, expected to learn these technologies very quickly and resolve any problems involved in integrating new technologies with our systems.
• Expert knowledge of networking, security protocols, telecommunications systems and deployments.
• Ability to work productively in a team.
• Knowledge of writing technical documents, configuration drawings, network management tools and networking technology.
• Ability to determine whether a particular problem is caused by hardware, operating systems software, application programs, or network failures.
• Good knowledge of data security and encryption.
• Demonstrated ability to use standard computing tools: Word processor, spreadsheet, browser, email, and file compression software.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop networking, security and communication systems, making specific determinations regarding system design and performance.
• Respond promptly and professionally to production problems for supported systems and applications.
• Conduct system analysis and configuration, with limited support from professional consultants, to keep our systems current with changing technologies.
• Analyze, design, coordinate and supervise the deployment of network and telecommunications’ systems to form a basis for the solution of information processing problems.
• Analyze system specifications and translates system requirements to task specifications for IT staff.
• Responsible for analysis of current network, security and telecommunications applications and systems including performance diagnosis and troubleshooting of problems, as well as designing solutions to problematic communication and networking issues.
• Configures, edits, and troubleshoots new systems and configurations for assigned projects, including secure data throughput.
• Documents configuration consistently throughout the deployment and support process by documenting design, special installation or support instructions, and any changes made in configurations.
• Responsible for utilizing tools and equipment involved in performance of essential functions of networking, security and telecommunications systems, including testing and measuring instruments.
• Ability to maintain positive internal and external client interactions.
• Research and recommend network management and support tools to management.
• Provide assistance to testers and support personnel as needed to determine system problems.
• Review, to the extent possible, changes in networking and telecommunications environment that will affect communications performance.
• Provide recommendations to Sr. management concerning issues of network topology, security settings or telecommunications performance.
• Attends regular staff meetings, prepares brief correspondence and reports, verbally communicates technical information, makes presentations to groups outside immediate work area, develops and documents procedures, follows up and researches questions and needed information, interacts with managers and senior management from different credit union clients on a regular basis.
• Interacts with networking and server support staff.

Skills

Networking

Security protocols

Telecommunications

Communication

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

EIGRP

F5

Palo Alto

BGP

OSPF

SD-WAN

VPN

TACACS

RSA

Job description

Wescom Financial seeks an experienced technical leader to support the Vice President of IT Operations in designing and implementing networks, security and telecommunications systems. You will design, modify, configure, test and deploy network and telephony applications while guiding staff through complex deployments.

You will analyze system requirements, stay current with evolving technologies, build strong internal relationships, and provide practical guidance to ensure secure, reliable