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Data Center Lead Network Administrator---Contract//Davis, CA (95% Remote) at Davis, California, USA
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Data Center Lead Network Administrator

Duration : 12 Month

Location: Davis, CA (95% Remote)

Phone & Skype

Must have GC or USC or H4 Visas ONLY (No OPT & NO EAD)

Must Have:

8 or more years of IT experience (At least 5 USA years)

Expert level F5 experience including installation, configuration, OS upgrades, irules, load balancing

Expert level experience configuring L2 networking including determining equipment, installation, configuration, VLANs, LAGs. 

Experience configuring and managing firewalls

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Information & Educational Technology (IET) at UC Davis has a need for a Data Center Lead Network Administrator. Under general supervision of the Data Center Services Manager, this
position will provide day-to-day network support for L2 and L3 data center networks.  This includes programming, troubleshooting, servicing client networking requests, programming firewalls, being on call, and generally being the primary point of contact for
all Data Center networking issues. 

This position will be our network expert with the highest level of practical, hands-on networking experience able to troubleshoot complex network issues using tools like packet
captures and other network diagnostic tools. 

Primary Responsible for:

Fortinet firewalls including analyzer and manager

Brocade, cisco, and extreme L2/L3 switches

Pulse VPN

Operational experience on those platforms highly desirable. F5 expertise essential. 

Network admin will also drive forward replacement of existing DC perimeter firewalls upgrading from juniper to fortigate. 

Essential Responsibilities:

Network architect will have primary responsibly for

F5 load balancers

Fortinet firewalls including analyzer and manager

Brocade, cisco, and extreme L2/L3 switches

Ivanti/Pulse VPN

30 % F5 load balancers

Provide primary, expert leadership, architecture design, and management of f5 load balancers.  Expert level knowledge of load balancing, GSLB, SNAT, routing, irules, URL rewriting,
certificates.  Maintain F5s in safe, consistent state.  Primary responsibility for security of devices. Stay current on CVEs and apply patches.  Upgrade hardware and OS when necessary.  Lead load balancing discussions with clients.  Provide leadership in hybrid
on-prem/cloud (AWS) load balancing discussion. 

30 % L2 network support

Manage L2 network infrastructure at multiple data centers.  Assign networking tasks to operations team.  Upgrade existing mix of switches to juniper QFX.  Design, manage, and own
the network architecture.  Primary point of contact for Data Center networking issues, tickets, architecture, and coordination with UCD NOC for Wan connectivity. 

20 % programming support

Provide adhoc programming and configuration management support when needed.  Expertise using ansible for configuration management.  Familiarity with PHP, python, apache, mysql for
occasional programming needs.  These are for home grown applications supporting configuration management, client charge back, and user-facing web portals. 

10% Fortinet firewalls, analyzer, manager support

Provide support and expertise for Fortinet firewall infrastrutcture.  Assist in design and build out of firewalls.  Lead networking architecture discussions of firewalls.  Occasionally
manage rules and policies via manager.  Build reports via analyzer.  Support point-to-point VPNs hosted on firewalls. 

10 % ivanti VPN support

Provide support for networking expertise for Ivanti/Pulse VPN platform.  Lead networking discussions related to VPNs.   Upgrade platform when needed.  Engage with clients to understand
needs then configure VPN accordingly.  Integrate VPNs with AD authentication.  Maintain licensing to ensure uninterrupted service. 

Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications

Expert level F5 experience including installation, configuration, OS upgrades, irules, load balancing

Expert level experience configuring L2 networking including determining equipment, installation, configuration, VLANs, LAGs. 

Experience configuring and managing firewall 

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Cisco and Juniper switches.

Experience with Fortinet firewalls including manager and analyzer.

Experience writing and modifying code in php, python. Experience with SQL.

Experience with VPNs, point to point and end user client VPNs.

Thanks & Regards

Rohit Patil

Recruitment Lead

[email protected]

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