Senior Network Engineer
CurrentLead LAN/WAN network engineer, and lead systems administrator for Cisco, Aruba, Exchange, Linux, VMWARE , Microsoft Office365, Azure AD, Veeam, serving multi-location organization with 1300+ employees; manage and support WAN servicing 5 sites. Systems administration, network engineering, storage administration. Advising IT Manager on issues, and participating in creation of policy proposals, new initiatives and strategic plans. Lead administrator of current server pool, WAN/LAN network, and remote access systems, and VOIP systems. Analyze requirements for existing and planned applications, and provide recommendations for the use of the equipment, techniques, and software. Responsible for the development and implementation of strategies aimed at improved performance, enhanced disaster recovery capability, and redundancy. Deploy switching, routing, edge security systems, VPN, VOIP, SAN/NAS, and WAN, at HQ and remote offices. Oversee storage architecture and backup strategies, and develop enhancement plans for improved redundancy/disaster recovery. Deploy and maintain network security stack using Cisco next generation firewalls, Cisco ISE, SAML, RADIUS proxies, Desktop AV (defender/ESET)