Freelance Network/Firewall Engineer

Reports to: Team lead Infrastructure

Purpose
The Network & Firewall Engineer is responsible for ensuring stability, integrity and continuity of the campus, datacenter and WAN networks. The Network & Firewall engineer designs, implements and improves these services, which includes evaluating new technologies, preparing changes in the technical infrastructure, deploying new components and solving second and third-line disruptions and incidents. The Network & Firewall Engineer will liaison with the CDC on vulnerabilities and other security risks in the environment.

Position in the organization:
The Network & Firewall engineer is part of the Infrastructure team.

Major Areas of Responsibility
Responsible for the Global Network infrastructure:
-    Compliancy, Security baselines and Patching

Responsible for the Network infrastructure environment:
-    Maintenance, Monitoring, Installing/Configuring
-    Back-up/Restore
-    Responsible for global Firewall policy baseline
-    Report and take action on Network and Firewall compliance/security incidents
-    Solving 3rd line issues
-    Designing new network environments
-    Monitoring network infrastructure
-    Automation/Scripting (Ansible)

Knowledge, education, skills and experience

Knowledge of the Network & Firewall landscape:
-    FortiManager
-    FortiAnalyser
-    F5 WAF, SSO and Load balancer
-    Fortigate Firewalls
-    LAN and WLAN

Must haves:
-    Cisco CCNA Routing and Switching
-    Cisco CCNA/CCNP
-    Fortinet Network Security Professional Level 4 or 5

Need to have but can be done when on the job
-    Ansible Basics: Automation Technical Overview
-    Red Hat Ansible for Network Automation

3-5 years of experience in managing enterprise networks.

Dimensions
-    Directly responsible for: managing the Firewalls, Switches, Access Points, Load balancers
-    No Financial responsibility
-    Impact and influence: indirect impact on Viterra Business through successfully maintaining the Network and Firewall environments.
-    Key relationship / customers: IT Security, Business Users, Windows Engineers, Infrastructure Architect.
-    Strong knowledge and experience of global infrastructure LAN\WAN environments.

Ability to communicate with executive, technical teams and suppliers.