Nelnet
Network Infrastructure Specialist
Nelnet is a diversified and innovative company committed to enriching lives through the power of service as a student loan servicer, professional services company, consumer loan originator and servicer, payments processor, renewable energy solutions, and K-12 and higher education expert. For over 40 years, Nelnet has been serving its customers, associates, and communities. Provides daily ongoing deployment, configuration, support, administration, maintenance, and technical solutions to various technology components that make up the IT Infrastructure environment. Job Responsibilities:
As a member of the Enterprise network team, a candidate will be expected to participate in both project related work as well as day to day operational support. Provide general support across multiple network environments, including campus, data center, and WAN. Provide firewall support to include day to day troubleshooting of connectivity requests and VPN tunnels. Complete after hours changes as needed. Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation. Willingness to work on site to support Campus network environments. Work with multiple customers, stakeholders, and system owners to produce requirements, determine feasibility, analyze cost/benefits requirements, and recommend design solution options. Provide training and technical support for users with varying levels of IT knowledge. Pay Range for this role is $105,000 to $135,000. Education:
Bachelor's degree in Information Science or related field and/or equivalent combination of education and experience. Cisco CCNP or equivalent experience desired. Experience:
This position is for someone with 5-10 years of network and security experience working a variety of network areas, to include the following disciplines: routing/switching, data center, wireless, security, VPN, collaboration, virtualization, disaster recovery/high availability, acceleration technologies, and cloud provider/services. Competencies
Skills/Knowledge/Abilities:
Strong analytical and problem solving skills. Strong oral and written communication skills. Ability to work well within a team. Ability to work well with technical and non-technical clients. Familiar with NIST standards and controls. Intermediate system and programming knowledge of: Cisco ISR and ASR Routers Cisco Catalyst and Nexus Switches Next Generation Firewalls (Palo Alto) Campus Network Design Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers and Access Points NAC/Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) Network Load Balancing (F5) SD Wan Technologies (Cisco, Meraki, Palo Alto) Routing Protocols: BGP / OSPF / EIGRP First Hop Redundancy Protocols: HSRP / VRRP / GLBP VRF implementation and design VSS and VPC technologies MPLS WAN infrastructure IPSEC VPN Tunnel design, implementation, and support User VPN (Palo Alto Global Protect) IPS, IDS, SSL Decryption, and URL Filtering Enterprise QOS IPv4 and IPv6 addressing Scripting and Network Automation (Python, VBscript, Powershell) Experience in maintaining network monitoring systems Experience in taking and reading network packet captures Familiarity with AWS infrastructure (VPC's, Security Groups, Direct Connect) Familiarity with supporting multiple cloud environments (Azure, GPC, etc.)
Nelnet is a diversified and innovative company committed to enriching lives through the power of service as a student loan servicer, professional services company, consumer loan originator and servicer, payments processor, renewable energy solutions, and K-12 and higher education expert. For over 40 years, Nelnet has been serving its customers, associates, and communities. Provides daily ongoing deployment, configuration, support, administration, maintenance, and technical solutions to various technology components that make up the IT Infrastructure environment. Job Responsibilities:
As a member of the Enterprise network team, a candidate will be expected to participate in both project related work as well as day to day operational support. Provide general support across multiple network environments, including campus, data center, and WAN. Provide firewall support to include day to day troubleshooting of connectivity requests and VPN tunnels. Complete after hours changes as needed. Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation. Willingness to work on site to support Campus network environments. Work with multiple customers, stakeholders, and system owners to produce requirements, determine feasibility, analyze cost/benefits requirements, and recommend design solution options. Provide training and technical support for users with varying levels of IT knowledge. Pay Range for this role is $105,000 to $135,000. Education:
Bachelor's degree in Information Science or related field and/or equivalent combination of education and experience. Cisco CCNP or equivalent experience desired. Experience:
This position is for someone with 5-10 years of network and security experience working a variety of network areas, to include the following disciplines: routing/switching, data center, wireless, security, VPN, collaboration, virtualization, disaster recovery/high availability, acceleration technologies, and cloud provider/services. Competencies
Skills/Knowledge/Abilities:
Strong analytical and problem solving skills. Strong oral and written communication skills. Ability to work well within a team. Ability to work well with technical and non-technical clients. Familiar with NIST standards and controls. Intermediate system and programming knowledge of: Cisco ISR and ASR Routers Cisco Catalyst and Nexus Switches Next Generation Firewalls (Palo Alto) Campus Network Design Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers and Access Points NAC/Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) Network Load Balancing (F5) SD Wan Technologies (Cisco, Meraki, Palo Alto) Routing Protocols: BGP / OSPF / EIGRP First Hop Redundancy Protocols: HSRP / VRRP / GLBP VRF implementation and design VSS and VPC technologies MPLS WAN infrastructure IPSEC VPN Tunnel design, implementation, and support User VPN (Palo Alto Global Protect) IPS, IDS, SSL Decryption, and URL Filtering Enterprise QOS IPv4 and IPv6 addressing Scripting and Network Automation (Python, VBscript, Powershell) Experience in maintaining network monitoring systems Experience in taking and reading network packet captures Familiarity with AWS infrastructure (VPC's, Security Groups, Direct Connect) Familiarity with supporting multiple cloud environments (Azure, GPC, etc.)