6 Month+ contract position open for a Network Security Engineer.
Location: Los Angeles CA This team member cooperates with various IT and Information Security departments to produce and document monitoring schema for network infrastructure, This team member implements and maintains monitoring technology in a 24x7 enterprise production environment. The candidate we are looking for will be focused primarily in helping to sustain and deliver enhanced monitoring services in our synthetic monitoring practice. CORE RESPONSIBILITIES: o From a broad selection of monitoring tools, conceptualize, develop, and implement vendor or custom monitoring solutions to ensure system functions at peak performance.o Identify, analyze, architect, and test enhancements or bug fixes to the current systems management infrastructure to meet changing requirements and increase productivity.o Analyze processes to establish technical guidelines and standards for systems monitoring.o Provide administrative support for configuration and proper operation of all networking tools.o Configuration of threshold and monitoring parameters for proactive and predictive monitoringo Net flow Analysis - Utilization reports, Top IP talkers , Identifying Hikes i.e. Threshold usage and monitoringo Configuration of Additional polling based on requiremento Setting up of dashboard views / custom views for specified manager and user views based on requirements.o On-boarding/off boarding network assets to solarwinds, redseal, netmri, tufin, cmdb, DNS, TACACS and GSRIT.o Work with architecture team to ensure continued fit of network monitoring infrastructure with global architecture REQUIREMENTS: o Cisco certified plus strong background of Cisco hardware platforms, switching, routing (including EIGRP, BGP), IOS, IPv4, IPv6, TCP, cabling infrastructure, firewalls, remote access systems, wireless, MPLS, VPN, multicast, WAN acceleration, wide area networking technologies, DNS/DHCP/NTP (Infoblox) , authentication technologies, 802.1x, spanning-tree, layer 2 security, RADIUS/TACACS/ISE, QoSo BGP/OSPF routing/L2 switchingo SD WAN/Metro E/MPLS/Cloud technologieso Strong TCP/IP and SNMP skills are required.o F5 APM / Checkpoint, Palo Alto, Cisco ASAo Protocol Analysis, network performance analysis, network capacity planning, and network troubleshooting.o o Strong awareness of non-networking IT disciplines such as Windows and Linux server systems, clustering, storage area networks, RSA, information security, PKI, Active Directory, multi-tiered application architecture and possess understanding of how to support these applications/protocols when accessed through VPN and firewall appliances.o Excellent problem solving and decision-making skillso Handle multiple tasks and must be flexible in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. o Bilingual; Spanish/English a plus
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K Kumar
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