Network Engineer

Role Objective 

• Configure and Install Network Hardware and Software
• Monitor Network Performance
• Create and Implement Network Security Measures
• Network Maintenance Tasks
• Provide Network Status Reports

Key Responsibilities

• Implementation and support of new LAN/WAN Technologies
• Maintaining Firewall Health and Availability Monitoring
• Maintaining Network Infrastructure in line with Company Standards.
• Daily Monitoring of Network Traffic and blocking malicious websites through Firewall IPS
• Configuring firewall rules, Access Policies, web filtering, Application Filtering, and QoS.
• Configuring access lists, NAT policies, and Policy maps
• Configuring and maintaining Routing Protocols IGP (Static routing, RIP, RIPv2, BGP) and their Specific attributes.
• Secures network by developing access rules and methodologies, monitoring, control, and evaluation.
• Bandwidth management up to 60 Mbps of traffic using a load balancer
• Configuration for Redundancy Protocols includes IP SLA, HSRP, VRRP, GLBP, and VSS.
• Administering and Configuring Switch Features like VTP, VLAN, STP, RSTP, L3Switching and Inter-Vlan Routing.
• Administration of a loop-free switched network using STP, MSTP, and RSTP protocols in LAN/WAN Networks.
• Administration of Firewall for Site-to-Site VPN, Configuring end users VPN such as Remote Access VPN, IPSEC, SSLVPN, L2TP and PPTP.
• VPN gateways, building encrypted tunnels to end users with VPN clients or third parties via dedicated IPsec site-to-site tunnels
• Administration and maintained Cisco Switches (9300, 4948,3560,3750,2950)
• Administration and maintained Cisco Routers(1900,1800) using Routing Protocols (RIP, OSPF, BGP)
• Load Balancer Installation and Configuration
• Distribute network and application traffic across a cluster of servers using a Load balancer
• Configuring load balancer using the least Connection, Round robin, least bandwidth, etc.
• Active/Passive and Virtual IP configuration, SSL certificate configuration

Operational

• Administration Load Balancer, Access control, Logs monitoring.
• Installation and configuration Web Application Firewall (WAF)
• Adding services, Filtering the web requests, and enabling Layer 7 filtering
• Administration WAF, access control, Reports configuration, and monitoring of the logs
• 5. Application load balancing and content routing
• ISP load balancing using with SD-WAN/load balancer appliance
• Enable all LAN users to share broadband Internet connections and provide advanced features to enhance Internet access
• Inbound and outbound NAT mapping
• Bandwidth bonding and failover among selected WAN connections
• Outbound (LAN to WAN) firewall rules
• DNS failover over the multiple ISPs
• Daily Monitoring of Resource Pool, Alerts & Alarms.
• Configuring and troubleshooting HA and DRs for failover and Load Balancing
• Vulnerability Testing

People

• Daily Checking in Firewall of unwanted Websites and blocking if suspicious through IPS
• Establishes networking environment by designing system configuration, directing system installation, defining, documenting, and enforcing system standards.
• Maximizes network performance by monitoring performance, troubleshooting network problems and outages; scheduling upgrades; collaborating with the Infrastructure Manager on network optimization.
• Secures network system by establishing and enforcing policies; defining and monitoring access.
• Performing disaster recovery operations and data backups when required
• Protecting data, software, and hardware by coordinating, planning, and implementing network security measures
• Network topologies and infrastructure as needed to support maximum system availability and uptime.
• Analyze incident recovery for complex and critical platform-related issues