About this role
Basic Purpose
Provides engineering and operational support for Operations Technology (OT) networks using Cisco and Palo Alto technologies, including firewalls, switches, VLANs, routing, network segmentation, and high-availability LAN/WAN infrastructure. Supports communications with field devices, including Remote Terminal Units (RTUs) and Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs), and network connectivity for existing and new substations. Collaborates with Telecommunications and other teams to maintain secure, reliable, and compliant communications between data centers, energy applications, and field networks.
Essential Education, Skills, and Environment
Education and Work Experience
Bachelor's degree from an accredited school in information systems, computer science or related technical field and two years of directly related technical experience is required. Five years of experience with data networking or general telecommunications experience.
Candidates that do not possess a bachelor’s degree must have a minimum of six years of directly related technical experience is required. Nine years of experience with data networking or general telecommunications experience.
Specialized Knowledge and Skills
Demonstrated knowledge of:
Core routing - routing protocols and route redistribution using OSPF, BGP, EIGRP and RIP, network technologies including MPLS, VRFs, QoS, IPv6 and NAT Core switching - advanced data center switching using 10Gig, EtherChannel, FCoE, virtual port channels, virtual device contexts and power redundancy Network security - internet DMZ design support including advanced firewall experience and experience with tier one service provider networks, Cisco ASA, CheckPoint and McAfee Firewall Enterprise firewall experience, network ACLs and network authentication based on user and machine certificates and Radius Network diagnostics - expert protocol/packet analyzer Sniffer/SNORT experience, expert Netflow and performance analysis experience Application load balancing - expert application load balancing experience for performance optimization and highly available environments Miscellaneous - reverse proxy and proxy cache experience, design and support remote access systems.
Utility energy management and plant control network desirable, design and support BYOD solutions, advanced Cisco certification or demonstrate equivalent knowledge Advanced knowledge of current technologies, tools, applications, and vendors.
Demonstrated skills such as:
Programming, installation, configuration, and data base management.
Analysis and design skills involving the ability to gather data on systems issues, define alternative approaches, assess business impact, recommend cost effective solutions, and develop and implement those solutions.
Effective oral and written communication skills.
Effective analytical and problem-solving skills.
Ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks and projects concurrently.
Equipment and Applications
PCs, word processing, spreadsheet and database software.
Work Environment and Physical Demands
General office environment. No special physical demands required.
Note: Immigration Sponsorship
At this time, we're not considering applicants that need any type of immigration sponsorship (additional work authorization or permanent work authorization) now or in the future to work in the United States. This includes, but is NOT LIMITED TO: F1-OPT, F1-CPT, H-1B, TN, L-1, J-1, etc. For more information regarding work visas, please visit www.uscis.gov.
**NOTE: THE COMPANY MAY FILL THE POSITION(S) AT A LOWER LEVEL DEPENDING ON QUALIFICATIONS OF CANDIDATES**