Firewall Engineer - Technology Specialist I - Digital and Technology Partners, Remote

Firewall Engineer - Technology Specialist I - Digital and Technology Partners, Remote, Req#3017893

This is a remote position. Prefer someone in NY, NJ, CT or surrounding areas to come onsite occasionally for breaks/fixes.

As a hands-on engineer of the team supporting the firewall and F5 BIG-IP services, you are responsible for design, maintenance, optimize, and troubleshoot the firewall and F5 infrastructure. This role requires a combination of technical expertise, leadership skills, and a commitment to ensuring the organization's network operates efficiently, effectively, smoothly, and securely.

• Project Management: Lead firewall/F5 support engineering projects, including defining project scope, setting objectives, allocating resources, and managing timelines. Monitor project progress, identify, and mitigate risks, and ensure successful project completion.
• Network Planning: Collaborate with other teams and stakeholders to understand business requirements and develop network strategies to support those requirements. This includes capacity planning, network expansion, and technology upgrades.
• Performance Monitoring: Implement and maintain network monitoring tools and processes to continuously assess network performance and identify areas for improvement.
• Security and Compliance: Ensure network operations and security practices comply with industry standards, regulations, and organizational policies.
• Vendor Management: Evaluate and recommend network equipment vendors and service providers. Negotiate contracts, manage vendor relationships, and continuously monitor service-level agreements (SLAs) to ensure quality and cost-effectiveness. Ensure vendor KPIs metrics are achieved and maintained.
• Budgeting and Resource Planning: Collaborate with leadership to develop and manage the network budget. Identify resource requirements, assess technology investments, and make recommendations for infrastructure improvements.
• Documentation: Maintain accurate network documentation, configurations, develop and maintain Standard Operating Procedures and processes.
• Continuous Improvement: Stay current with emerging networking technologies, industry trends, and best practices. Identify opportunities for process optimization, automation, and efficiency gains within the network engineering function.
   

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience. Masters degree preferred.
• Eight years of diverse work experience in IT with a minimum of six years experience in systems analysis and application program development, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• 5+ years of experience in leading a team of engineers supporting an institutional IT system.
• 7+ years of experience with Palo Alto Next Gen Firewalls and VPN software including Palo Alto and Cisco.
• Extensive knowledge of F5 BIG-IP LTM/GTM/APM modules
• Advanced understanding of the OSI level, routing and switching protocols as they relate to load balancing (STP, BGP, OSPF, TCP, SSL, SNAT, TLS, SSH, NTP)
• Strong understanding of application layer protocols including HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, SSL, TLS, and DNS.
• Very good communication skills, judgment and analytical/problem solving skills, and the ability to work effectively with client and IT management, staff and vendors.
• Must have excellent troubleshooting, organizational and documentation skills.
• Must be able to work with a team to manage changes.

Compensation Statement

The Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides a salary range to comply with the New York City Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for this role is $109,000.00 - $163,695.00 Annually. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and hospital need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits.

Non-Bargaining Unit, 294 - DTP Network Services - MSH, Mount Sinai Hospital

Strength Through Diversity

The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:  

• Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.
• Serving as a role model co