Senior Network and Security Engineer

Freddie Mac

(Reston, Virginia)
Full Time
Job Posting Details
About Freddie Mac
Freddie Mac makes home possible for millions of families and individuals by providing mortgage capital to lenders. Since our creation by Congress in 1970, we’ve made housing more accessible and affordable for homebuyers and renters in communities nationwide. We are building a better housing finance system for homebuyers, renters, lenders and taxpayers.
Summary
The Engineering Senior will be part of the Network Engineering Team within the Information Technology Division. This position is responsible to provide engineering leadership and support for the delivery of multi-site enterprise and data center network environments; including the evaluation, design, implementation and troubleshooting of network and security infrastructure technologies and solutions.
Responsibilities
* Support critical large-scale projects in the areas of Network and Security. * Work closely with technology and business stakeholders to understand goals, identify requirements, support security risk assessments, design and implement solutions. * Provide technical guidance, develop design documents, perform product installation, upgrades and certification, implementation plan, deployment and troubleshooting support. * Diagnose, solve and provide root cause analysis for hardware and network related issues. * Understand and advocate Network & Security standards, reference architectures and robust/scalable/secure Network & Security infrastructure, its outcome and ongoing results. * Coordination with Operations team for the design, build and production readiness of Network and Security infrastructure solutions supporting mission critical production environments. * Ensure decisions around Network and Security solutions are made and deviations from standards are properly identified, addressed and communicated. * Stay current with developing technologies and predict impact of changing technologies. * Identify opportunities to simplify and keep the Network and Security infrastructure current. * Provide effective written and oral communication at all levels of management, peers and customers. * Communicate effectively with clients to identify business needs, development efforts and evaluate alternative technical solutions and strategies. * Continually define ways to increase customer satisfaction and deepen client relationships
Ideal Candidate
**Qualifications** * 5-7 years of relevant experience in IT Network Engineering and Operations * Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Computer Science, related field or equivalent experience. * 5+ years in a senior level engineering role engaged with IP network technologies including LAN switching, BGP/OSPF routing, VPLS/MPLS, Quality of Service, traffic engineering, server load balancing and network-security design and delivery for large scale multi-site data center environments. * Understand High Availability and Disaster Recovery concepts as apply to Network and Security designs. * 5+ years of experience with the design, configuration, implementation and troubleshooting of Cisco IOS and Cisco Nexus Switches and Routers, Cisco Wireless, Cisco ASA VPN, F5 Networks LTM/GTM, Checkpoint Firewall, Cisco Identity Service Engine, Cisco Sourcefire IDS/IPS, Bluecoat Proxy. * Experience with Infoblox based DNS and DHCP enterprise solutions. **Preferred Skills** * Experience in the financial services industry * Experience with network visibility and monitoring using Gigamon GigaVue and Opnet solutions. * Must be able to effectively perform both independently and collaboratively as a strong team contributor. * Ability to adapt to change; provide quality and on-time delivery. * Strong verbal and written communications skills required; including development of detailed solution designs, implementation and support documentation

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