Cognizant is seeking a Network Engineer for a full-time opportunity in Jersey City, NJ.
The salary range for this role is between $79,000 to $107,000 depending on experience and qualifications of the candidate. All applicants must have valid work authorization. We are unable to offer visa sponsorships at this time.
Applications will be accepted till 8/29/2024
Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:
- Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
- Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
- 401(k) plan and contributions
- Long-term/Short-term Disability
- Paid Parental Leave
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Disclaimer: The compensation and benefits information are accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.
Responsibilities
- Manage all network devises.
- Monitoring and troubleshooting as per SOP for all transmission slowdowns and congestion, malfunctions, and abnormalities; and escalate if needed for any changes in tuning adjustments.
- Configure, validate, and manage Aruba NAC or equivalent tools to remotely detect and troubleshoot WLAN interference in customer supported locations.
- Support WLAN controllers.
- Support New VLAN, VLAN trunking and resolve any issues.
- Manage issues with stores that pertain to network devices.
- Support internet circuit issues by collaborating with vendors.
- Engage Aruba support for SDWAN environmental issues.
- Configuration and Administration of Access point
- Troubleshooting of AP issue
- Citrix ADC logging, Monitoring with SNMP and Troubleshooting
- Vendor Coordination for fault troubleshooting and RMA co-ordination.
- Configuration management backup & restoration & implementing approved changes.
- Network troubleshooting Port Errors, Duplex, Vlan, Link status etc.
- DHCP Reservation, DNS record creation
- New Scope addition like IP Subnet
- Modifying traffic behaviour with persistence including SSL, SIP, universal, and destination address affinity persistence
- Monitoring application health with Layer 3, Layer 4, and Layer 7 monitors (including transparent, scripted, and external monitors
- Processing traffic with virtual servers including network, forwarding, and reject virtual servers)
- Configuring the Load balancers and Create/Modify virtual servers, pool and node configuration.
- Modifying traffic behavior with profiles including advanced HTTP profile options, caching, compression, and One Connect profiles.
- Fault monitoring of LAN, WLAN and WAN Devices (Device Services Up-Down Status monitoring)
- Hardware/Device replacement co-ordination efforts
- Maintain network maps and relevant documents updated on company network portal.
- Configure and verify switch administration, Layer 2 protocols, Vlans, Trunking, EtherChannel
- Network troubleshooting Port Errors, Duplex, Vlan, Link status etc.
- Configuration management Backup & Restoration) & implementing approved changes.
- Configuration and Administration of Access points from Controller
- Troubleshooting of the device alerts UP-Down alerts, Utilization alerts, Power issues, Performance alerts, WIFI Client disconnection issues, Radius authentication issues
- Managing Light weight Access points for Controller
- Working on alarms and co-ordinate with vendor
Firewall Support
- Whitelisting IP
- OS Upgrades (content upgrades, rebooting FWs)
- Active Standby for Palos
Firewall Policy Management
- Grouping the access to the System
- Role based access to the systems.
- Identity access management policy
Qualifications
Qualified Applicants should have 6 to 8 years of experience with the following skills.
- Ability to manage the customer network devices.
- Experience with Cisco switches and routers.
- Experience with managing Aruba SDWAN.
- Experience with vendor Coordination for troubleshooting store core network devices/DC coordination
- Experience with managing Palo Alto Load balance and need panorama knowledge.
- Managing Infoblox for DNS and DHCP.