Senior Network & Security Engineer
Company: Princeton University
Location: Princeton
Posted on: September 13, 2024
Job Description:
OverviewThe Senior Network Security Engineer provides a
leadership role in delivering advanced network routing and
switching services to the University community. This position
ensures the availability, integrity, security and reliability of
mission critical networking and switching services. This position
is primarily involved with network switching, routing and security
infrastructure management. As a member of the Network Routing and
Switching group, the senior engineer is also responsible for
managing and monitoring network infrastructure, analyzing and
resolving network problems, and regularly improving network and
switching infrastructure. As a key resource of the Network services
team, the senior engineer plays a crucial role in enabling and
supporting the research, teaching, and administrative mission of
the university.ResponsibilitiesNetwork security architecture and
design support
- Responsible for designing, implementing, and managing secure
networks for the university campus.
- Assess the security of existing networks, identify potential
risk areas, and take proactive measures to protect network
resources from unauthorized access.
- Lead and participate in the design: creating secure network
architectures, developing access control policies, implementing
encryption protocols, and configuring and managing firewalls. The
security design must take into account various aspects of
connectivity including LAN, WAN, internet, remote access, and
VPN.
- Stay up to date with the latest industry best practices,
trends, and technologies from a security perspective.
- Regularly review network routing and security system log files
and resolve any issues identified
- Adhere to the data confidentiality policies according to the
university guidelines.Network routing and switching operations
support
- Monitor, analyze and verify scalability, performance, high
availability, and data integrity for networking and security using
service management best practices
- Configure and regularly update all monitoring, alerting, and
reporting for network routing and switching services.
- Maintain documentation and configuration information for
networking and monitoring systems using service management tools
including knowledge management, change management, and event
management
- Provide operational support for all advanced network routing
and switching services to OIT and the University community on a
routine schedule using request management practices.
- Routinely apply critical bug fixes, security updates, and
required configuration changes, following established change
management procedures.
- Lead & provide advanced troubleshooting assistance, and
routinely collaborate, with University departments and OIT teams on
operational issues, projects, and initiatives using incident
management practices
- Routinely review, test, and verify backup and restore
procedures for networking and monitoring systems.
- Provide on-call support on a routine schedule to perform
network upgrades, execute maintenance changes, and effectively
resolve major incidents outside of normal business hours.Project
design and implementation support
- Collaborate with University departments to deploy and manage
highly reliable, advanced network routing and switching solutions.
Design and implement necessary security services for campus and
border networks to ensure the safety of the University's network.
Primary responsibility for the administration and support of
networking systems including network switch and router
management.
- Design and manage the configuration of network core devices,
Internet border routers, building routers and connectivity to
service providers.
- Participate in and manage the analysis, design, installation
and management of network infrastructure and network systems,
through the full lifecycle of development, quality assurance, user
acceptance testing and production.
- Proactively participate in professional development
opportunities to continuously develop professional and technical
skills
- Adhere to OIT IT service management processes
- Maintain confidential data in the strictest confidence and
ensure privacy, security, and proper use in accordance with
University Information Security Policy
- Assist other colleagues with a lower technical skillset in
Network Services.QualificationsEssential Qualifications:
- Minimum of 7 years of experience managing or supporting a
medium to large network infrastructure, with at least 5 years of
experience focused on security networking
- Demonstrated innovative thinker and creative problem
solver
- Knowledge and experience in network routing, switching, and
security management.
- Demonstrated skill in solving complex problems in the network
environment particularly in the areas of packet switching, routing
and network security
- Extensive understanding of network protocols including TCP/IP
and network security policies.
- Experience with multi-vendor equipment including Cisco and
Aruba and related OS configurations
- Experience with Palo Alto Firewalls and Global Protect VPN
solution
- Demonstrated ability to adapt to multiple operating systems and
platforms.
- Excellent oral and written communications skills in this highly
collaborative environment
- Knowledge of service management processes including change
management, request and incident handling, knowledge management,
and event management
- Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously, to respond
to shifting priorities, and to work efficiently under the pressure
of critical problems and deadlines
- Ability to work outside of normal working hours and be on call
to perform network maintenance and support unexpected critical
network failures
- Ability to work independently, as well as in a team
environment
- Education: Bachelors degree preferred or equivalent experience
and/or certifications degree Preferred Qualifications:
- Familiarity with network routing and switching management
tools.
- Experience with Aruba downloadable user roles and ClearPass
integration
- Experience with VxLAN overlay, Multicast/Anycast and BGP
routing.
- Ability to leverage network automation tools to improve overall
service delivery. Princeton University is an and all qualified
applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard
to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender
identity or expression, national origin, disability status,
protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by
law. PI25a999a5ef61-31181-34292803
Keywords: Princeton University, Trenton , Senior Network & Security Engineer, Other , Princeton, New Jersey
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