Job Description

Alternate Locations: Greensboro, NC (North Carolina)

Relocation assistance is not available for this opportunity.

Level: P4

Requisition 64995

About the Company

Lincoln Financial Group, a Fortune 250 company with over 10,000 employees, provides advice and solutions that help empower Americans to take charge of their financial lives with confidence. Our core business areas Life Insurance, Annuities, Retirement Plan Services and Group Protection focus on supporting, preserving and enhancing over 17 million customers lifestyles and retirement outcomes.

Headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania, Lincoln Financial Group is the marketing name for Lincoln National Corporation (NYSE: LNC) and its affiliates. The company had $238 billion in assets under management as of December 31, 2018.

Ranked one of the Best Large Employers in America by Forbes magazine, Lincoln Financial Group makes a serious investment in our employees futures through a broad range of wealth accumulation and protection plans, health and wellness programs, and career development resources designed to help each individual reach their personal and professional goals.

The Role

This position will provide technical leadership, subject matter expertise and direction on complex projects/initiatives for their assigned area(s) of responsibility. This position will function as a technology and service leader in the architecture, design, planning, delivery of the enterprise network providing converged voice, video and data services organizations. S/he will design and deploy LAN/WAN, Internet/Extranet and remote access VPN related network involving Cisco Nexus, Cisco Catalyst, Cisco ISE, Cisco Wireless, Netscout Application Performance Management technologies, Infoblox DDI, Checkpoint Firewall technologies. S/he will partner with infrastructure teams to deploy network infrastructure to remote facilities both new build and refresh in existing site.

Responsibilities

* Lead research, proposal, design, architecture and implementation of the enterprise IP Network, Wide Area Network (WAN) and features supporting converged technologies (network, compute, storage), convergence of all voice, video and data traffic on the IP network including; TCP/IP application traffic, BGP Routing, Quality of Service (QoS), IP Multicast, Voice over IP, Video over IP and Content Delivery Network (CDN) services using Cisco, AWS, Avaya and Microsoft platforms.
* Deliver advanced knowledge to configure, install, manage, maintain and upgrade enterprise IP network, network security (ISE), data center, branch offices and key city network hardware, software, configuration and services including; Cisco, Amazon Web Services (IaaS), Symantec, Checkpoint and Microsoft. Develop and deliver infrastructure as code using tools such as Puppet and AWS CloudFormation using JSON, YAML, Python programming languages.
* Specific to this role the candidate must Lead in design, deployment and support of BigIP F5 LTM & GTM platform infrastructure, Symantec Proxies, Checkpoint or Palo Alto Firewalls in addition to his other duties.
* Deliver advanced technical support, consultation and collaboration with the enterprise network, security, cloud and unified collaboration teams including integration and dependencies with voice, video, security, compute and storage platforms including; Cisco Nexus, Cisco UCS, Symantec Proxy, Checkpoint Firewall, Cisco Call Manager, Cisco Voice over IP (VoIP), Cisco Telepresence and Avaya Communications Manager.
* Responsible for design, implementation and troubleshooting for enterprise IP network, data center, unified communications and cloud related infrastructure, services, network connectivity, IP traffic routing and performance issues to resolution, completely and accurately documenting all work activity in the organizations problem tracking system.
* Provides deep level subject matter expertise in IP network, IP network security, wide area network, internet and cloud connectivity, design, implementation and advanced level of support and triage. Develops and delivers solution proposal, architecture overview and as-built network and cloud documentation.
* Analyzes utilizing network tools to investigate and remediate pending network issues for internal and inter-site connectivity issues working with the appropriate teams to resolve any issues that arise from the deployment

Education

* 4 Year/Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience (4 years of experience in lieu of Bachelors)_Minimum Required in Information Technology

Experience

* 5 7+ Years experience in IT infrastructure administration that directly aligns with the specific responsibilities for this position (Required)
* Cisco IP Network and Network Security Solutions and infrastructure, BGP routing design and implementation
* Cisco Nexus, Cisco ACI, Cisco UCS, WAN / IP Addressing /SDN designs and implementations
* Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Identity Services Engine (ISE) solutions and infrastructure
* Symantec (Bluecoat) Forward Proxy and Checkpoint Firewall, Intrusion Detection/Prevention
* BigIP F5 LTM and GTM infrastructure System Engineer 10.x, 11.x or 13.x
* Internet connectivity design, Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) technologies and solutions
* Checkpoint Firewalls and or Palo Alto Firewalls

Certifications:

* BigIP F5 GTM & LTM System Engineer (10.x, 11.x or 13.x) (Preferred)
* Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert (CCIE) Routing and Switching or Data Center (Preferred)
* Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) Routing and Switching or Data Center (Preferred)
* Symantec (Bluecoat) Certified Specialist (SCS) (Preferred)
* Palo Alto Certified Network Security Engineer (PACNSE) (Preferred)
* Checkpoint Certified Security Expert (CCSE) (Preferred)
* Infoblox Core DDI Advanced Troubleshooting (CDAT) (Preferred)
* NETSCOUT Certified Expert (NCE) (Preferred)

This position may be subject to Lincolns Political Contribution Policy. An offer of employment may be contingent upon disclosing to Lincoln the details of certain political contributions. Lincoln may decline to extend an offer or terminate employment for this role if it determines political contributions made could have an adverse impact on Lincolns current or future business interests, misrepresentations were made, or for failure to fully disclose applicable political contributions and or fundraising activities.

Any unsolicited resumes/candidate profiles submitted through our web site or to personal e-mail accounts of employees of Lincoln Financial Group are considered property of Lincoln Financial Group and are not subject to payment of agency fees.

Lincoln Financial Group (LFG) is an Equal Opportunity employer and, as such, is committed in policy and practice to recruit, hire, compensate, train and promote, in all job classifications, without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, veterans status, or genetic information. Applicants are evaluated on the basis of job qualifications. If you are a person with a disability that impedes your ability to express your interest for a position through our online application process, or require TTY/TDD assistance, contact us by calling 260-455-2558.

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