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KPMG Lead Network Engineer II, Tech Engineering in Knoxville, Tennessee
Business Title: Lead Network Engineer II, Tech Engineering
Requisition Number: 119150 - 83
Function: Business Support Services
Area of Interest:
State: TN
City: Knoxville
Description:
Known for being a great place to work and build a career, KPMG provides audit, tax and advisory services for organizations in today's most important industries. Our growth is driven by delivering real results for our clients. It's also enabled by our culture, which encourages individual development, embraces an inclusive environment, rewards innovative excellence and supports our communities. With qualities like those, it's no wonder we're consistently ranked among the best companies to work for by Fortune Magazine, Consulting Magazine, Seramount, Fair360 and others. If you're as passionate about your future as we are, join our team.
KPMG is currently seeking a Lead Engineer II, Tech Engineering to join our Digital Nexus technology organization. This is a remote work opportunity.
Responsibilities:
Lead the direction of Network through the development of an information technology strategy that addresses overall firm's information technology requirements
Define best practice and roadmaps for network products or solutions and support the development of network architecture
Collaborate with engineering and operational teams to drive the product roadmaps for network, cloud, and WAN tools, by providing requirements that help to map controls and patterns to product features; work closely with the firm's network and information Security team and put a roadmap of products/solutions together
Develop business cases and conduct presentations to senior IT leadership of proposed network products, solutions, and studies
Stay abreast of the latest network information regulatory requirements, technologies, controls, practices, techniques, and threats and apply to network; participate in network incident resolutions and root cause analysis where needed
Lead internal skills development activities for network architecture and engineering teams on new technologies and solutions driven by security and business requirements, by providing mentoring and by conducting knowledge sharing sessions
Qualifications:
Minimum eight years of recent and progressive experience designing and implementing data center network, WAN architecture, cloud strategies, and reference architectures; from business requirements gathering to technology rollout oversight, including capacity management, definition of scoring methodologies for technology selection, integration of multiple tools and technical documentation
Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university is preferred; Cisco CCIE, CCNP, CCDP or CISSP certification preferred
Deep understanding of TCP/IP and Data Center Routing & Switching; expert knowledge of switching technologies vPC, vPC+, OTV, VDC, VRF, VXLAN, VRF; in-depth knowledge of routing technologies, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, IPV4/V6, NAT, ACL's, DNS; knowledge of NTP, SNMP, NetFlow, QOS, CEF, Security Protocols, network management tools; technical knowledge of remote access technology MPLS, VPN , IP Sec and ACLs; NAC technology; understanding of IDS/IPS such as SourceFire, and Palo Alto; understanding in firewall technologies, Cisco ASA and Palo Alto is required; understanding of Proxies and Content Filtering technologies such as Bluecoat and ZScaler proxies; deep understanding of SDWAN and wireless 802.11.
Working knowledge of threat intelligent management products such as Arbor TMS, Akamai DDOS protection; demonstrated experience in vulnerability scanning and related products; knowledge of event correlation systems to diagnose and manage security events within the firm
Ability to program with one or more 'scripting' languages such as Python, Ruby, Perl, Bash and JavaScript
Knowledge or practical experience with public cloud deployments like AWS, Azure; solid knowledge of Network function virtualization Virtual router/Switch, Virtual FW, Virtual Load Balancers
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