The Network & Security Associate Engineer will be a part of a highly competent delivery team, responsible for building and supporting, typically datacentre-based network and security infrastructure solutions; delivering service level agreements to ensure the continued operation of those solutions. Confident in at least two technology concepts, such as firewalls, routers, switches, load-balancers, etc, and is able to operate those technologies to an operational standard. Possesses or able to achieve at least one professional qualification in a relevant technology or vendor.
Responsibilities
Engineering
Participates in proofs of concepts. Manages towards project timelines, executing on deliverables in partnership with internal networking and infrastructure teams
Provides technical status reports to management
Responsible for anticipating technical roadblocks and escalating issues
Responsible for managing select technical aspects of implementation
Executes on the implementation of new solutions for customers, both internal and external to the organization
Operations
Triages events and tickets for network and security operations incidents.
Follows documented SLAs, guidelines and policies to resolve issues, with further guidance from senior team members as needed
Works towards increasing level of responsibility for network and security operations
Operates and troubleshoots next-generation firewalls, routers, switches, load-balancers, security device management systems, intrusion detection/prevention (IDS/IPS) and DDoS mitigation systems, for both internal and external customers
Eventual participation in on-call rotation, when sufficient levels of knowledge and skill have been achieved
Work in line with change control and configuration management processes
Incident Response
Manages day-to-day network and security incident response, during business hours
Investigates, researches and analyzes network and security incidents as they are escalated or reported by internal or external customers
Uses established procedures for remediation of incidents, escalating as needed for additional guidance
Eventual participation in on-call rotation, when sufficient levels of knowledge and skill have been achieved.
Innovations
Contribute to improve processes & procedures to achieve optimum efficiencies and service quality
Contribute to infrastructure performance and capacity tuning techniques delivering optimized performance.
Policy & Compliance
Responsible for following process to maintain security policies, for internal and external customers
Triages and resolves simple customer security inquiries per documented guidelines.
Service Delivery
Performs fulfillment for quote to cash transactional tickets for all network and security products (Firewalls, Routers, Switches, ECX Enablement, etc.)
Work in line with change control, problem and configuration management processes
Contribute to the successful delivery of departmental projects.