The Network Engineer serves as the subject matter expert for all corporate, data center, and cloud based networks and reports to the Manager of Network Engineering. You are to provide technical expertise needed to design, implement and support day-to-day network operations escalation. Lead efforts to maintain complex and growing network topology that must meet the needs of a challenging set of development, operations and business requirements. Demonstrating innovative approaches to solving the unique challenges encountered and being able to maintain the security and integrity of the networks is very important. You will be monitoring performance of network systems and advise management when additional processing or technology enhancements are required and perform troubleshooting of systems and infrastructure elements to support the diagnosis of problems

To adhere to our corporate location policies, this resource will be required to be local to the surrounding Louisville, KY area (or will be relocating). You are required to adhere to our Return To Office (RTO) / weekly onsite requirements (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday). This role is located in our Louisville Office.

What you will do
Provide technical expertise needed to support day-to-day network operations
Lead efforts to maintain and audit a rapidly growing network topology that must meet the needs of a challenging set of development, operations and business requirements
Demonstrate innovative approaches to solving the unique challenges encountered and be able to maintain the security and integrity of the networks
Create and maintain IT documentation
Monitor performance of network systems and advise management when additional processing or technology enhancements are required
Perform troubleshooting of systems and infrastructure elements to support the diagnosis of problems
Support efforts to maintain complex and growing network topology that must meet the needs of a challenging set of development, operations and business requirements.
Demonstrating innovative approaches to solving the unique challenges encountered and being able to maintain the security and integrity of the networks is very important.
Monitor the performance of network systems and advise management when additional processing or technology enhancements are required.
Perform troubleshooting of systems and infrastructure elements to support the diagnosis of problems.
Stay abreast of innovations in the network technology market in order to ensure we are ahead of business and regulatory needs.
Maintain a high profile within the technology community, contributing to Equifax' profile as an innovative technology company.
Engage with 3rd party vendors in order to assess and validate market offerings and opportunities to enhance the Equifax value proposition


What experience you need
BS or Associate's Degree or equivalent job experience required.
Minimum of 5 years of experience as a Network Engineer professional.
Minimum of 5 years of IP network support experience.
Minimum of 5 years experience with TCP/UDP protocols, ICMP, VLANS, trunking, routing, subnetting, routing protocols (BGP,OSPF), and the ability to decode and review protocol traces.
Minimum of 5 years of configuration & troubleshooting experience using Juniper, Checkpoint, and/or Palo Alto firewall.
Minimum of 5 years of experience in configuration and command set mastery of Cisco, Juniper and/or Arista switches & routers.
Ability to participate in 24x7x365 on-call rotation.
Criminal Justice Information System (CJIS) Background Check required (in addition to meeting our standard employee background requirements).


What could set you apart
Developed and demonstrated skills in Change Management, Negotiation and Influence, Network Infrastructure, Network Management, Operational Excellence, Technology Troubleshooting and Process Improvement
Understanding of cloud technologies (AWS) and tools like Ansible big plus.
An interest in working in a DevOps environment along with a desire to develop skills in network automation will be of benefit, as will an understanding of network security.
A demonstrable ability to manage 3rd parties is also required to fulfil this role.
Juniper, Cisco, & Arista Router / Switches
Palo Alto, Juniper, and CheckPoint Firewalls
Akamai and F5 load balancers
Aruba Wireless Controllers
Network Tools like NetBrain, Tufin, Solarwinds
Bluecoat & NetSkope Proxy

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