Assistant Vice President/ Vice President, Perimeter

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**Your background**

The role of Perimeter Security Production Services Specialist provides support of Network infrastructure by detecting, responding, and restoring issues related to Incidents with the primary focus on triage leadership of all business impacting incidents. This role is the key focal point for network stability and owns restoring any impacts to that stability regardless of where the root cause of the impact lies.

Shift and hours of work:
Each shift will be 12hrs, alternate week’s Wed will be an off day.

Shift Pattern A: Sun to Wed

Shift Pattern B: Wed to Sat

**What you can expect**

The technology areas of focus for the Perimeter Security Production Services Specialist includes edge-network security via firewall and intrusion detection/prevention technologies. Production Services Specialists are expected to be well versed in numerous networking protocols, technologies and troubleshooting methodology, including the use of proactive and reactive tools. The work is always in alignment to the current and approved Network Services Standards, Incident and Problem Management Policies & Procedures, governance and management policies set forth by the firm.

**Required Skills**:

- Experience with Network technologies
- Perimeter Security Technologies - Controllers, Management Platforms, Tunneling protocols - SSL/TLS, IPSEC, GRE, Network Resiliency - HA-local failover, backups, WAN/MAN, Routing, Switching, Firewalls, LAN, TCP/IP, DNS, UDP, Latency, VRRP, BGP, Multicast, IPv4, IPv6, VPN
- Experience operating various firewall platforms (Checkpoint, Fortinet, Trend Micro, Palo Alto SD-WAN Zone Firewall) including expertise with their management platforms
- Experience with troubleshooting complex networking problems
- Experience with JIRA, Confluence, Agile framework & SCRUM ceremonies
- Understand configuration management with tools such as Forward Networks and HPNA
- Experience using (both proactive and reactive) advanced tooling; Inclusive of but not limited to Netscout, Wireshark, Splunk, SevOne, HPNA, NNMI, OBM, IBM Watson, NSO, etc.
- General experience in Network Automation tools and processes
- Self-starter/self-directed, organized and detail oriented
- Strong technical acumen and analytical skills
- Excellent client interfacing skills
- Strong verbal and written communication skills and ability to work with all levels of management
- Experience aligning actions to business impact and service restoral
- Demonstrates ownership: Is accountable and can hold others accountable (professionally)
- Experience operating with colleagues across different time zones with a flexible approach to working hours (ability to work varied hours) to successfully interact and communicate on a global level

**Desired Skills**:

- Experience in Networking-related disciplines within a design, implementation, or operations role
- Relevant Industry certifications in Network Technologies
- Cloud or SDN knowledge and experience
- Experience with SDN; Cisco ACI, VMware NSX, Arista CloudVision
- Experience with SDWAN, preferred if on Cloudgenix
- Experience with automation tools such as Python, Ansible, YAML or Django, API calls (to ticketing systems and network devices), and frontend web development
- Experience working in an Agile environment
- Experience of working within Financial Services (Insurance, Banking, Investment banking)
- Experience with other network technologies
- WAN, MAN, LAN, Optical, Routing, Switching, Proxy/Threat Prevention, DDI, Load Balancing, and AAA

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