IT Network Security Engineer (Remote)
- Job Title
- IT Network Security Engineer (Remote)
- Requisition ID
- 27736694
- Duration
- Location
- Lombard, IL
- Other Location
- Description
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People Passion Purpose
Everything School Specialty offers is designed for one purpose – to help students succeed. We believe every student can flourish in an environment where they feel safe and inspired to explore and grow.
We’re determined to positively impact the future, one child at a time. We need to talk if you share our passion:
Transforming more than classrooms.®
Benefits
School Specialty offers Medical, Dental, & Vision plans (Effective Day 1), Wellness programs, Health Savings Accounts, Flexible Spending Accounts, 401 (k), Unlimited PTO for Salaried Exempt employees, which can also be used for dedicated volunteer hours, Education Reimbursement, Paid Holidays, Fall & Winter Flexible Hours, Employee Discounts and much more!
IT Network Security Engineer
The Network Security Engineer - position is responsible for coordinating network and security infrastructure activities for Production, Staging, and Development environments throughout the School Specialty Enterprise.
The base salary range for this role is $79,000-$106,000K Annually.
**Ideal candidates must be within 60 miles of either the Greenville WI, Lombard IL or Mansfield OH locations**
Summary of Primary Responsibilities- Provide support for all network devices (Routers, Switches, WLCs, Firewalls)
- Provide configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting of LAN, WAN, and WLAN network devices
- Implement and maintain network security architectures
- Troubleshoot and provide support in network and security-related issues
- Assists in designing, testing, and improving the network security infrastructure, ensuring they are highly available, robust, secure, and operationally efficient.
- Stay current with up-to-date security and network practices
- Support PCI compliance
- Contributes to 24/7 on-call and travels as needed to perform site assessments and deploy new systems.
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
- Develop, implement, and maintain scalable network standards, procedures, and controls
- Performance measuring and tuning
- Capacity Planning
- IP Telephony QoS support and troubleshooting
- Strong background in IP networking
- Experience with Cisco routers, switches and APs
- Experience with Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls and SDWAN
- Experience with F5 load balancers
- Experience with Azure networking
- Desire to work in a team environment
- Willingness to perform after-hours and on-call duties as needed
- Ability to mentor others is a must
- Ability to prioritize and multi-task
- Willingness to learn and adapt to new environments and technologies
- Self-starter and confident
- Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
Disclaimers
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.- School Specialty, LLC. is a Drug Free Workplace. All applicants are subject to a drug screen and background check as a condition of employment.
- We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.
- If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at Opportunities@SchoolSpecialty.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.
Job Grade: 12
- Openings
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