Position: Network Engineer
Duration: 1 year
Location: Saint Paul MN (Hybrid)
In office 2 days per week minimum may vary based on workload.
One of the days onsite must be Monday or Friday each week.
Description of Project
The Minnesota Department of Information Technology Services (MNIT) partnering with the Minnesota Department of Public Safety (DPS) and Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) is seeking one fulltime resource to help support maintain and configure network equipment including Cisco switches Wireless ASA VPN Checkpoint firewalls Palo Alto and F5 load balancers.
Tasks
- Perform network system administration duties as necessary for system availability maintainability and security.
- Responsible to ensure service tickets or requests to be performed on Cisco VPN Firepower IPS and Prime are completed and working with BCA Networking groups when needed.
- Develop document and apply Cisco ASA CheckPoint Palo Alto Catalyst 9300 switch configurations for CJIS services.
- Identify routine networking tasks or requests coming to the Networking group and develop processes to allow the Service Desk to submit tickets directly where appropriate.
- Develop document and support SolarWinds Orion KIWI Syslog and Savvius configurations.
- Execute unit and integration testing procedures.
- Provide knowledge transfer.
Desired Skills
- Three (3) or more years of network hardware and software technology experience.
- Expert knowledge Cisco hardware switches VPN and IOS.
- Expert knowledge and skills in TCP/IP.
- Expert knowledge of network test equipment including Sniffers and other protocol analyzers Savvius OmniPeek.
- Ability to perform advanced technical issue analysis and troubleshooting within a router/switch infrastructure.
- Knowledge of Network Quality of Service (QOS) techniques and network Management systems.
- Strong analytical oral and written communications problem solving and human relations skills.
- Experience with CheckPoint Palo Alto 9300 Catalyst series switches and operating system (NXOS).
- Experience with Software Defined Networking solutions.
- Experience with F5 Big IP (LTM ASM AFM APM).