Network Operations Manager

Job Description (JD): Network Operations Manager

Must Have Skills

• Enterprise routing and switching, including LAN/WAN, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, VLANs, STP/RSTP, HSRP/VRRP and QoS.
• Palo Alto firewall administration covering policies, NAT, zones, App-ID, User-ID, Content-ID, IPS/IDS and threat prevention.
• Prisma Global Protect and VPN solutions, including remote access and site-to-site IPsec VPN.
• Cisco Meraki SD-WAN design and operations, including Auto VPN, traffic shaping, WAN failover and application-aware routing.
• Cisco ACI data center networking, including tenants, VRFs, bridge domains, EPGs, contracts, policies and L3Out.

Good to have:

• Experience with URL filtering, WildFire and SSL decryption on Palo Alto firewalls.
• Experience integrating MFA with secure remote-access policies.
• Knowledge of Statseeker, SolarWinds, PRTG or similar network monitoring tools.
• Network capacity planning, performance optimization, resiliency, redundancy and upgrades.
• Root cause analysis, network documentation and adherence to ITIL processes.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Design, deploy, support and troubleshoot enterprise LAN/WAN networks, including routing protocols, switching, resiliency, redundancy, capacity planning and network upgrades.
• Design and manage Palo Alto firewalls, optimize rules, perform audits and upgrades, and respond to security incidents and vulnerabilities.
• Deploy and maintain Prisma Global Protect, remote-access VPN and site-to-site IPsec VPN, including secure access policies and MFA integration.
• Design, implement, monitor and optimize Cisco Meraki SD-WAN solutions, and integrate SD-WAN with cloud and data center networks.
• Deploy, manage and troubleshoot Cisco ACI fabric; monitor network services, maintain documentation and diagrams, perform root cause analysis, and follow ITIL processes.