Cognizant is looking for an experienced Network Engineer for our fast-growing business area. An ideal candidate is someone best problem-solvers, idea-makers, and high-energy individual. If you meet our background requirements and looking for an opportunity to be rewarded for your skills and expertise, is the ideal opportunity for you!
Grade:Associate (Depends on experience and technical expertise)
Experience Level:Minimum 5 years of IT Experience.
Job Description:
Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
- Interpret business objectives and translate into technical requirements for network design and implementation.
- Install, configure, deploy, and validate, LAN, WAN, WLAN, and security designs.
- Develop and leverage network automation to drive efficiency and standardization.
- Create and maintain network documentation.
- Configure and maintain network monitoring tools.
- Maintain and operate firewall policies and NAC policies to ensure best practices and proper network segmentation.
- Ability to adapt to new network environments and use your current knowledge to maintain and troubleshoot unfamiliar systems.
- Remotely direct on-site techs in hands-on activities to replace networking equipment, setup new networked devices and reset existing networked devices.
Desired Experience and Skills:
- Network engineering in medium to large enterprises
- Routing, switching, wireless, firewall, load balancing, DNS, public and private peering, NAC
- BGP, OSPF, as well as protocol redistribution and route policies
- SDWAN
- Cisco, Aruba, Fortinet, Palo Alto, Citrix
- Diagnosing and resolving network performance issues
- Python, Cisco ISE, Panorama, Fortigate Firewalls is a plus
