Network Engineer

Immediate need for a talented Network Engineer with experience in the Telecom Industry.This is a 12+ Months Contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Warren, NJ. Please review the job description below., * Manage cloud and local networking infrastructure including but not limited to Palo Alto, Cisco and/or Meraki firewall and VPN equipment.

• Monitor and configure systems to detect and alert potential malware and endpoint protection.
• Work and coordinate with IT and backend server team on introducing new technologies as desired.
• Manage Microsoft Exchange Server.
• Able to support IT members with Tier 2/3 support as necessary.

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or other Engineering or Technical discipline or equivalent relevant experience.
• Thorough understanding of AWS Networking concepts, including VPCs, route tables, IGWs, security groups and NACLs, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, and WAF.
• Thorough understanding of IPSEC and PPTP VPN technologies, and their implementations. Experience with GlobalProtect Cloud Service and GlobalProtect definitely a plus.
• Experience handling networking requirements for geographically distributed networks, remote employee support.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Excellent ability to express complex networking configurations in professional diagrams.
• Ability to proactively take ownership of networking functions and governance.
• Server administration and automation experience.
• Experience with Linux distributions (RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu).
• Cisco Meraki administration.
• Previously experience with SSO, Azure AD.
• Experience with log analysis tools like Splunk.