Corp Tech - Senior Network Engineer - Checkpoint/F5 (Creve Coeur or Eagan)

Title:Corp Tech - Senior Network Engineer - Checkpoint/F5 (Creve Coeur or Eagan)
ID:JREQ008777

Description

The Network Engineer will work as part of the LAN Network and Security Team to support mission critical, fast-paced financial, brokerage, publishing, legal and news services. The position requires a breadth and depth of technical, time management, customer service, and written/spoken communications skills. The Network Engineer's general role is to provide high quality LAN implementation and support activities to all product areas in the strategic datacenter locations.

Essential day-to-day Responsibilities:
- Manage and support the LAN product delivery networks to standards of capacity, availability, security, and accuracy.
- Act as level 2 support for firewalls, load balancers, routing, and switching. Work with technical groups to resolve issues in a timely manner.
- Lead network projects and work with peers to implement multi-priority/overlapping projects.
- Process assigned incident, change, and service request tickets.
- Complete network and engineering support documentation for layer 1 and 2 support staff.
- Submit network level changes and provide appropriate level of coordination along with implementation.
- Maintain knowledge of the network environment and sufficient familiarity with business/application/systems.
- Participate in rotating on-call coverage.
- Perform work in an ethical manner, and act at all times with a business professional manner.We are the leading source of intelligent information for the world's businesses and professionals, providing customers with competitive advantage. Intelligent information is a unique synthesis of human intelligence, industry expertise and innovative technology that provides decision-makers with the knowledge to act, enabling them to make better decisions faster. We deliver this must-have insight to the financial and risk, legal, tax and accounting, intellectual property and science and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization.

Qualifications

Education:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related technical degree is preferred, or equivalent work experience
Requirements:
- Four years networking support for medium to large networks such as Internet/Extranet ASP infrastructure.
- Knowledge of routing and switching with Cisco hardware/software.
- Knowledge of Cisco Router suite of products (7500/7200, 3800, 3600, 2600.. etc.)
- Knowledge of Cisco Switch suite of products (6500, 4500, 4900, 3500, 2900.. etc.)
- Knowledge of ASA, PIX, Juniper Netscreen, and Checkpoint NG firewalls (SPLAT deployment) managed by Provider-1.
- Knowledge of Cisco ACE and F5 load balancing technologies.
- Capable of performing packet level analysis.
- Knowledge of WAN technologies: DWDM, Frame Relay, ATM, T3, MPLS
- Knowledge of Internet and networking technologies such as DNS, SMTP, SNMP, NTP.
- Ability to work independently and provide timely status updates.
- Good oral and written communications skills.
- Ability to handle multi-tasking and frequently changing priorities.
- Cisco or Checkpoint Certifications a plus.
- Familiarity with ITIL processes a plus.
At Thomson Reuters, we believe what we do matters. We are passionate about our work, inspired by the impact it has on our business and our customers. As a team, we believe in winning as one - collaborating to reach shared goals, and developing through challenging and meaningful experiences. With over 60,000 employees in more than 100 countries, we work flexibly across boundaries and realize innovations that help shape industries around the world. Making this happen is a dynamic, evolving process, and we count on each employee to be a catalyst in driving our performance - and their own.
As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under country or local law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

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Job: Technology Operations Family Group
Primary Location: Creve Coeur, MO, US
Other Locations: Eagan,Minnesota,United States of America
Organization: Tech - Data Center Operations
Schedule: Full-time
Education Level: None
Job Type: Standard
Shift: Day Job
Travel: No