ACI Network Operations Engineer (Infrastructure), New York

Title: ACI Network Operations Engineer (Infrastructure)

Contract : Convert to FT after 6 months

Location : New York City 100% on-site and convert to 4/days week on site after 3-6 months

Reports to: Director of Network Operations

Key skills: Aci and Fortinet, Financial experience, Load balancing and Upgrades

Local candidates strongly preferred; interview will be f-f for final round (after 3-4 video rounds)

Summary:

Seeking a Network Operations Engineer to support network infrastructure, including WAN, LAN, WLAN, Cisco ACI, load balancing, firewalls, proxies, BlueCat DNS, and monitoring tools.

Responsibilities:

- Implement, maintain, and support network infrastructure.

- Manage daily support of LAN, WAN, WLAN, Cisco ACI, firewalls, proxies, load balancers, and DNS.

- Monitor and optimize network, DNS (BlueCat), and tools like Extrahop, OpsRamp, Splunk, SolarWinds, and BackBox.

- Escalate critical production issues as needed.

- Participate in a 24/7/365 on-call rotation.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent experience.

- 10+ years of experience in mission-critical network environments.

- Ability to work in fast-paced environments with real-time data and trading.

- Vendor-neutral or vendor-specific certifications/training preferred.

- Basic Windows and Linux administration knowledge.

- Scripting and automation experience.

Technologies Used:

- Operating Systems: Linux, Windows

- Hardware: Cisco ACI, routers/switches, Fortinet firewalls, F5 LTM/GTM, web proxies, Extra hop monitoring probes, Bluecoat DNS

- Applications: Cisco Client, Bluecoat DDI, SSL/PKI