Network Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

Job Type: Full Time

Job Category: IT

Job Description

Location: Chicago, IL (Onsite)
Fulltime

• Migrate branch sites from MPLS to Zscaler SD-WAN solution as part of global branch transformation project.

• Analyze business needs; gather requirements, designs, installs, troubleshoots, and supports technical solutions in a world-class infrastructure.

• Participate in regular meetings and conference calls with customers and IT staff to help qualify opportunities and technical solutions.

• In depth knowledge and understanding of networking technologies, design principles, and the practical application of routers, switches, virtualization, storage, storage networking virtualization/zoning, load-balancers and network security.

• Knowledge of network security solutions such as firewalls, VPNs, Intrusion detection/prevention, and web application firewalls.

• 5+ years’ experience in network engineering. Experience with branch site WAN migrations is required with focus on Zscaler solutions.

• Strong technical knowledge and experience in several of the following (certification a plus):

• Proven understanding of network segmentation/isolation, encryption architectures

• Strong documentation skills and experience generating technical documents, diagrams, solutions specifications, guidelines, processes, and procedures.

• Excellent communications and customer service skills with proven ability to communicate professionally in a corporate environment.

• Experience in standardizing and automating network configuration and deployment

• Experience with software and hardware troubleshooting and system monitoring.

• Ability to work nights and weekends as needed for implementations and being a point of escalation

Required Skills