Senior Network Engineer

Welcome to Gallagher – a global leader in insurance, risk management, and consulting services. With a growing team of more than 52,000 professionals worldwide, we empower businesses, communities, and individuals to thrive. At Gallagher, you can build a career whether it’s with our brokerage division, our benefits and HR consulting division, or our corporate team. Experience The Gallagher Way, a culture fueled by shared values and a collective passion for excellence. Join one of our dynamic teams, where you'll play a pivotal role in shaping Gallagher's future and unlocking unparalleled opportunities for both clients and yourself.

We believe that every candidate brings something special to the table, including you! So, even if you feel that you’re close but not an exact match, we encourage you to apply.

The Network Engineer will collaborate with cross-functional teams to assist in designing solutions for AJG US and International business units, partners and customers. The Network Engineer will build, deploy, and support the solutions in conjunction with other engineering and operations resources.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES

• Will work with Infrastructure leadership, other IS teams and business units to engineer, recommend, plan technical projects to meet network reliability, tactical, performance, or controls needs.
• Analyzes business needs; gather requirements, designs, installs, troubleshoots, and supports technical solutions in a world-class infrastructure.
• Develops and documents models, plans, diagrams, illustrations, and procedures in support of engineering activities and network related business initiatives.
• Participates in regular meetings and conference calls with customers and IT staff to help qualify opportunities and technical solutions.
• Creates capital expenditure (CAPEX) requests and tracks the progress of hardware & software orders.
• 10+ years experience in network engineering. Experience network engineering and operation with an enterprise organization preferred.
• 5+ years of experience leading project teams and/or mentoring junior engineers.
• In depth knowledge and understanding of networking technologies, design principles, and the practical application of routers, switches, virtualization, storage, storage networking virtualization/zoning, load-balancers and network security.
• Experience working with SDN solutions such as Cisco ACI, VMware VNX
• Knowledge of network security solutions such as firewalls, VPNs, Intrusion detection/prevention, and web application firewalls.
• Strong technical knowledge and experience in several of the following (certification a plus):
• Cisco Routing/Switching, spine/leaf architecture
• F5 LTM/GTM
• Cisco UCS & Nexus
• Cisco ACI
• Cisco WAAS, WCCP
• Cisco security solutions
• Cisco ISE
• Palo Alto Networks firewalls and security solutions
• QoS, prioritization of voice and video
• Network automation
• Proven understanding of network segmentation/isolation, encryption architectures
• Strong documentation skills and experience generating technical documents, diagrams, solutions specifications, guidelines, processes, and procedures.
• Scripting skills are a plus
• Cisco certifications in Routing and Switching preferred
• Excellent communications and customer service skills with proven ability to communicate professionally in a corporate environment.
• Experience in standardizing and automating network configuration and deployment
• Experience with software and hardware troubleshooting and system monitoring.
• Ability to work nights and weekends as needed for implementations and being a point of escalation

Required:

• Typically requires a University Degree and minimum 5 years of prior relevant experience, or equivalent experience.

Preferred:

• IT architecture and systems
• Information security
• Network systems, planning, design, and support
• Hardware infrastructure design and support
• Vendor mgmt

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