Company URL: https://www.berkleytechnologyservices.com/

Berkley Technology Services (BTS) is the dynamic technology solution for W. R. Berkley Corporation, a Fortune 500 Commercial Lines Insurance Company. With key locations in Urbandale, IA and Wilmington, DE, BTS provides innovative and customer-focused IT solutions to the majority of WRBC’s 60+ operating units across the globe. BTS’s wide reach ensures that ideas and opinions are considered at every level of the organization to guarantee we find the best solutions possible.  

Driven by a commitment to collaboration, BTS acts as consultants to our customers and Operating Units by providing comprehensive solutions that not only address the challenge at hand, but proactively plan for the “What’s Next” in our industry and beyond.  

With a culture centered on innovation and entrepreneurial spirit, BTS stands as a community of technology leaders with eyes toward the future -- leaders who truly care about growing not only their team members, but themselves, and take pride in their employees who shine. BTS offers endless ways to get involved and have the chance to grow your career into a wide range of roles. Come join us as we push forward into the future of industry leading technological solutions.

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The Sr. Network Engineer designs significant new system functionality with a consideration of performance, stability, and supportability.  Reviews and provides feedback on business requirements to fully leverage technology to improve business functions.  Defines standards and design patterns / paradigms for system development within a team.   Actively participates in the planning and implementation of systems, infrastructure, and related hardware and software. Provides advanced troubleshooting for infrastructure, networking, load balancing, security, and application issues.  Provide project architecture and oversight with in-depth technical expertise on infrastructure projects.  Assesses and recommends architectural designs / changes to customer systems in response to business or technical drivers.  Contributes to written proposals and develops technical documentation.

• Subject Matter Expert for infrastructure, networking, load balancing, and security technologies within the network services practice.
• Provide advanced configurations and troubleshooting for infrastructure: Cisco route / switch networking, NetScaler load balancing, Palo Alto Firewalls.
• Actively participate in the planning and implementation of systems, infrastructure, and related hardware and software.
• Provide project architecture and oversight with in-depth technical expertise on infrastructure projects.
• Serve as a Lead Engineer on engagements and work directly with Project Management and peer teams.
• Collaborate with technical staff, including project managers.
• Clearly communicate problem/resolution process to customers or management.
• Serve as liaison to vendors to facilitate problem resolution.
• Assess and recommend architectural designs/changes to customer systems in response to business or technical drivers.
• Customer liaison for solutions; including presentation of design and deployment strategies.
• Contribute to written proposals and develop technical documentation.
• Design significant new system functionality with a consideration of performance, stability, and supportability.
• Review and provide feedback on business requirements to fully leverage technology to improve business functions.
• Define standards and design patterns/paradigms for system development within a team.
• Demonstrate a robust understanding of all the business processes and system interfaces of a system.
• Demonstrate problem solving skills that span the application, middleware, and infrastructure levels.Clearly communicate problem/resolution process to customers or management.
• Ability to quickly grasp and support all technologies and processes in the current infrastructure environment and mentor and cross-train technical team.

• Minimum of 8 years design and engineering experience with Palo Alto Firewalls and NetScaler load balancers in a midsize to large environment. 
• Proven skills with complex routing protocols; including BGP and OSPF; deploying QOS. 
• Proven skills in setting up IPSEC for site-to-site connectivity; software-based SSL for Remote access solutions. 
• Proven experience setting up automated / proactive network monitoring. 
• Experience with Cisco ISE, 802.1X, Radius, TACACS, DMVPN, Wireless, DNA Center and  VOIP are a plus 
• BA in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering or a combination of education and equivalent experience.
• Any of the following certifications preferred. PCNSA, PCNSE, CCP-N, CCE-N, CCNP, CCIE

Skills 

• Systems: Cisco Nexus Switches, ASA, Wireless Controllers. 
• Networking: Switches, Routers, Servers, Load Balancers, Firewalls, LAN, WAN, TCP/IP, DNS, UDP, VoIP, QoS, EIGRP, BGP, OSPF, MPLS