Job Description

Azure Network Support Engineer

Location: Fully remote

Type: 6 month contract

Hours: Mon - Fri, US hours (2pm to 10 pm GMT/BST)

Overview

We are looking for an Azure Network Support Engineer who has core experience supporting networking technologies in Azure. The engineer will also have excellent technical skills on firewall technologies specifically Palo Alto and can adapt to changing needs in an agile environment.

The Azure Network Support Engineer will be aligned to the VWAN Support Services (as described below) and will take handover from the project team and provide ongoing support for the network changes and migrations supporting the needs of each of our business units.

Responsibilities

• Creating support documentation for handover provided by project team including using shadowing and reverse shadowing techniques
• Able to support migrations happening from current Hub and Spoke architecture to Secure vWAN hub in Azure
• Be an integral part of the squad and act as the go to person for network support requirements
• Can work independently on support issues and escalate incidents with vendors where required including ensuring ownership until incident resolution
• Collaborate with engineers, testers, and other team members for migration work, DR tests etc including working paid additional / out of hours where applicable
• Communicate effectively with all levels of stakeholders, both verbally and in writing

Requirements

• Azure networking (NSG, VNet peering , UDR , Route Table , Private Link /Endpoint, Load balancer)
• Deployment and support experience of Azure vWAN Hub and Palo Alto Cloud NGFW
• Build VPNs with other cloud providers and appliances
• Palo Software and Cloud NGFW in Azure. This will include management of Advanced Threat Protection features like Antivirus, Antispyware , Vulnerability protection , URL filtering , file blocking and Wildfire in addition to firewall rules
• Checkpoint and Azure Firewall (desirable)
• Azure DNS
• Infoblox DDI
• Expressroute and VNET gateways
• Infrastructure as Code Management - Terraform , Azure ADO (desirable)

ECS Recruitment Group Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.