Network Engineer

Job Title

Network Engineer

Job Description

The Job

Pacific Life Re is investing in its global network and security to support its digital transformation journey. As such, we are searching for a Network Engineer to join a small team to help us transform our network and to protect our customers and brand. This engineer will design, implement, maintain, and support our growing network infrastructure. This person will also collaborate with our corporate security team to design and build security controls to protect our environment. The successful candidate will have served in a similar role in a Fortune 500 environment and will have significant experience in supporting global networks.

Description

Implement products, platforms, software, hardware, or appliance-based solutions related to network and network security.

Interface with management and vendors to develop and implement new solutions to meet business requirements.

Design and manage the rollout of various network infrastructures with necessary capacity planning, performance tuning, and configuration optimization

Perform network maintenance and system upgrades including service packs, patches, hot fixes and security configurations

Maintain network security across the global enterprise; analyze networks for security threats. Monitor organization's networks for security breaches and investigates violations when they occur.

Use network tools for administration, maintenance, automation, and visualization reporting

Develops technical documentation describing the deployment, configuration, and management of network infrastructure.

Participates in IT security audits. Responds to existing audits and ensures required controls are implemented as required.

Builds strong relationships outside of IT to understand business needs. Communicates complex details in a way that people can understand. Advocates for the end user and stakeholder by becoming associated with the products, empathizing with and understanding user needs.

Qualifications & Experience

Must have a minimum of 7 years of experience in IT, configuring and installing various network devices and services (e.g., routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, VPN, QoS)

Candidate must have advanced technical skills and experience with the following L2 and L3 protocols and technologies such as IPSec, DMVPN, BGP, OSPF, VPC, QoS, 802.1x. Be familiar with Cisco IOS, IOS-XE and NXOS.

Candidate must be familiar with various platforms – NetScaler, Riverbed, Palo Alto, Cisco (Catalyst, ISR, ASR, Nexus, ASA/FTD). Cisco ACI is a plus, Knowledge of Juniper and HPE routing/switching equipment is a plus.

Must have an understanding of open-source and other tools to assist in monitoring, troubleshooting and performance analysis.

Must have excellent communication and problem-solving skills, attention to detail

One or more of the following certifications: Cisco CCNP, Cisco CCIE

Flexible schedule, including the ability to work nights and weekends

B.S/MS in Engineering and/or Computer Science or equivalent experience

Working For Pacific Life Re

Every person in our global team is valued for the unique qualities they bring to our business and we seek to build their expertise and support their individual ambitions at every step. Of course, we take our work seriously and we know our team can operate under great pressure. We work hard and thrive on achievement, but we also know how to have fun and relax too. We regularly host a range of team building days to strengthen our team's connection with each other and reflect on their successes.

Providing employees with a healthy work-life balance is very important to our culture. We have a wide range of employee benefits and we host regular social activities and well being initiatives. We are also committed to supporting our employee's involvement in their communities, by actively fundraising, hosting charity events and overseeing volunteering opportunities.

Benefits

Leave

23 days of annual leave with option to buy/sell more days

Adoption and fertility leave

Generous enhanced parental leave

Healthcare

Comprehensive private insurance coverage for employee and dependents

Group Term Life Insurance coverage of 5x basic annual salary, Group Accelerated CI of 1x annual basic salary and Group Accidental Death & Dismemberment of 3x annual basic salary

Optical & Dental benefits

Additional flexi benefits

Wellness

Access to Employee Assistance Program

Time off for volunteering

Charitable matching of employee donations

As part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, we will provide reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to ensure equal access to applicants with disabilities. Please contact us about your needs so that we can discuss these with you to make sure that suitable adjustments are made, where possible.

Pacific Life Re Values

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