Network Engineer - Nsx

Company Overview-

Tesserent is an extraordinary home-grown cybersecurity success story. Founded in Melbourne, originally focusing on Managed Security Services and funded entirely by local investors, we have since grown to become one of Australia’s largest cybersecurity providers. Now with offices across Australia and New Zealand, we partner with clients to provide not just Managed Security Services, but a full suite of cybersecurity services.

Partnering with over 1,400 mid-sized to enterprise, government, and critical infrastructure clients, Tesserent delivers comprehensive, tailored solutions to prevent, detect and mitigate potential cyber-attacks. We have deep expertise in security advisory (GRC) and consulting, technical assurance and testing, cloud services, 24x7 managed services and monitoring, incident response and forensics and converged/physical security.

Our mission is to be the sovereign cybersecurity provider of choice for the protection of Australia and New Zealand’s digital assets.

Role Overview-

Tesserent is seeking a full-time Network Engineer to join our team based anywhere in Australia. The primary focus of the Network Engineer is to design/deploy and resolve technical issues on network and security technologies and provide support to our customers. This role "owns" the network, you will be expected to understand the physical and logical design, to plan to grow it, maintain it in accordance with best practices, document it, and mentor others.

This role can be based anywhere remote in Australia.

Accountabilities-

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

• Understand the existing designs and architect the solution for new and existing customers.
• Assisting with and/or leading the design, architecture and capacity planning, maintenance and expansion of network and security platforms.
• Owning the technical standards and governance for technology domain (Network & Security).
• Providing technical monitoring and management of cloud infrastructure to ensure they continually meet the defined performance, reliability, functionality and security requirements agreed with the business.
• Provide support and troubleshooting to resolve issues as part of an on-call rotation
• Leading the analysis, design, documentation, planning, deployment and testing of complex adds, moves, changes and customer projects and ensure assigned tasks are completed in a timely manner.
• Using data and other techniques to identify recurring issues being reported or occurring for systems under management.
• Identifying and implementing automation of regular tasks to improve efficiency of the team and increase the reliability, performance and functionality of customer solutions.
• Bridging the gap between the cloud team and the core network and security teams.
• Leading project deployments plus operational support across Networks & Security domains including:
  • Design and deployment of the SDWAN platforms.
  • Design and deployment of the NSX-T platforms.
  • Design and deployment with advanced routing and switching technologies across multi-vendor platforms (Fortinets / Palo-Altos / Cisco / Brocades, VPNs, QOS etc.)
  • Wireless networking technologies.
  • Private & Public Cloud networking (VMware, Azure & AWS)

Competencies-
TECHNICAL:

• Tertiary degree in Computer Science or a relevant discipline
• 7+ years in a previous Networks Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure, or similar role with a strong desire to provide service to the customer beyond their expectations.
• A strong and proven experience on Fortinet products.
• Solid experience across PAN, VDX, Cisco platforms.
• Experience with virtualisation technologies (primarily VMware vCenter & NSX Manager).
• A strong background in networking and security with a deep understanding of advance routing, switching, firewalls and security concepts.
• An experience in NSXV & NSXT platforms.
• A passion and drive for continuous learning and self-improvement coupled with the ability to quickly gain an understanding and competency in new technologies.
• Solid understanding of the OSI or TCP/IP model
• Knowledge of ITIL methodologies would be beneficial.

Business Skills-

• Good communication skills
• A Team player
• Well versed with Microsoft products like Excel, Outlook, MS Teams etc.

• Experienced in using Microsoft Visio application.

Knowledge, Skills & Experience-

• • Tertiary degree in Computer Science or a relevant discipline
  • 7+ years in a previous Networks Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure, or similar role with a strong desire to provide service to the customer beyond their expectations.
  • A strong and proven experience on Fortinet products.
  • Solid experience across PAN, VDX, Cisco platforms.
  • Experience with virtualisation technologies (primarily VMware vCenter & NSX Manager).
  • A strong background in networking and security with a deep understanding of advance routing, switching, firewalls and security concepts.
  • An experience in NSXV & NSXT platforms.
  • A passion and drive for continuous learning and self-improvement coupled with the ability to quickly gain an understanding and competency in new technologies.
  • Solid understanding of the OSI or TCP/IP model
  • Knowledge of ITIL methodologies would be beneficial.