<p>Kforce has a client that is seeking a Senior Network Engineer in Chelmsford, MA.</p> <p>Overview: The Senior Network Engineer will work with the team to design, configure, deploy, maintain, and support our comprehensive enterprise network infrastructure. Your work will encompass supporting business infrastructure needs, regular care, and maintenance of these areas, and acting as a project leader for new initiatives. You will need to ensure reliability in the network communication systems, operational compliance with business standards, and will contribute to the advancement of our infrastructure through development of supporting procedures, best practices, and road map strategy planning. You will complete your work responsibilities in tight partnership with other IT colleagues and business stakeholders while also mentoring more junior members of the technical team.</p> <p>Essential Functions</p> <ul> <li>Design, configure, deploy, maintain, and support the company's enterprise network infrastructure including but not limited to Firewalls, VPN, SIEM, SD-WAN devices, Switches, Routers, Wireless, Voice gateways </li><li>Provide support assistance for the company's 7x24x365 mission critical infrastructure systems, including on-call, change window, and unplanned emergency response </li><li>Analyze problems, recommend solutions, products, and technologies to meet business objectives and requirements </li><li>Actively protect our information technology assets and infrastructure from external or internal threats and ensure compliance with policies and procedures including regulatory requirements regarding information access, security, and privacy </li><li>Oversee the configuration of firewall security settings and access permissions </li><li>Enforce policies and procedures through monitoring and auditing for potential security violations while ensuring systems are updated and patched </li><li>Assist the end user, other IT professionals, and external customers in network and security support requests* Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or a related field from an accredited institution required </li><li>CCNP - Cisco Certified Network </li><li>7 - 10+ years of experience of recent professional experience in Network Administration required </li><li>3 - 5+ years of professional experience with current network security protocols, hardware and software required </li><li>Previous experience with Network infrastructure design, including telephony and video required </li></ul>