Senior Network Engineer

Job Description

At K&L Gates, we are looking for smart, imaginative and hard-working people with diverse backgrounds, experiences and ideas to join us.  Perhaps our search for talented visionaries and your search for important and impactful work lead to the same place.

We are seeking a Senior Network Engineer to join the Pittsburgh office. The candidate will be responsible for the design, implementation and operational support of network security connectivity and project initiatives involving the K&L Gate's global network. Sr. Network Engineer provides technical leadership to the firm and mentorship to members of the IS Operations teams.  Sr. Network Engineer ensures stability, best practices engineering, and detailed troubleshooting disciplines are applied to firm systems. The Sr. Network Engineer position encompasses primary responsibility for activities, including but not limited to Network Firewalls (ASA), Remote Access VPN (AnyConnect) and Internet proxies. Other responsibilities include wide area network connectivity technologies, network design, routing techniques and protocols, Quality of Service and traffic prioritization, IP address administration, LAN / WAN hardware, routers, switches and related technologies.  Technical responsibility will extend to all offices of the firm and may require travel to any or all offices.

Candidates must be a team player with the ability to lead and manage projects, demonstrate excellent communication skills and possess the ability to manage a multitude of assignments independently. 

 Candidates must be self-starters who possess the ability to work independently and as part of a team. Excellent communication skills and a commitment to providing the highest quality client service are strongly preferred.

Essential duties

•Assess risks and impacts arising from a business disruption and make decisions and determine actions independently and expediently to eliminate those risks and ensure the continuity of business.

•Understanding of firm and industry best practices and business requirements in order to gather data for analysis by conducting interview and independent research

•Analyzing, planning, testing, and implementation of the Network Security and network connectivity

•Design, implement and ensure that systems achieve 100% uptime 24/7/365  operational availability

•Act as technical project manager and responsible for project related communications to stakeholders

•Fully resolve problems with firm systems and technologies

•Participate in making decisions and determining actions independently and expediently to eliminate risks and ensure the continuity of business.

•Analyzing, planning, testing, and implementation of the Internet and network connectivity

•Actively pursuing new technologies to improve effectiveness and efficiency of firm systems

•Act to support all technical projects arising from the Project Management Office (PMO)

•Performing root cause analysis on systems issues and determine recommended solutions to resolve problems.

•Determine and decide when to escalate problems to vendors and ensuring resolution and reporting of resolution to stakeholders.

•Provide training and mentoring on problem identification, analysis and troubleshooting techniques and best practices to Operations teams.

•Design, implement, test and maintain business continuity and disaster recovery solutions, processes and procedures.

•Maintaining documentation of network, processes, procedures, troubleshooting guides and change management logs.

•Flexible to work outside of normal business hours as required.

Function Specific Systems Knowledge Requirements

•Firewall (Cisco ASA and Next generation), Internet – Multicarrier & redundancy)

•VPN (Cisco AnyConnect)

•Proxy and PAC File

•Internet Connectivity

•WAN Routing

•Network / Application tools (Sniffer, WireShark)

•General Network (IP schema, Video, Cabling, DHCP)

Other Requirements

•Wide Area Network transports including MPLS

•Enterprise class routing protocols BGP, OSPF

•Converged Networks carrying voice, video and data

•Traffic prioritization, including Class of Service and QoS

•Cisco router, switching and wireless hardware technologies

•Network monitoring and reporting tools

•Use of network troubleshooting tools including network sniffers

•Compuware application performance analysis tools

•Knowledge of WAN/LAN traffic requirements for a MS Windows based applications environment

•Business continuity and disaster recovery disciplines

•Alerting, monitoring and response disciplines

•Data center operations and disciplines

[No phone calls, walk-ins, or agencies, please.]

ABOUT THE FIRM

K&L Gates is a fully integrated global law firm with approximately 2,000 lawyers across five continents. We have experienced dramatic growth in the past decade and now rank among the largest U.S. based law firms in the world.  We take pride in constantly striving for innovation, imagination and an entrepreneurial spirit. We come up with big ideas and then roll up our sleeves to get the job done, guiding our clients through their most complex issues in a variety of industry sectors and across multiple regions of the world.

The industry recognition the firm has garnered in the past five years emanates from the foundation of a global community aligned on behalf of our clients. The people at K&L Gates are committed to working together to create a legacy for each other, the firm, our clients, and the communities in which we serve. We thrive in an inclusive and socially conscious environment that embraces diversity and takes a holistic approach to the career evolution of all our professionals.

To learn what makes us different from other law firms, including our collaborative approach, entrepreneurial spirit, and our commitment to diversity, check out our video, “Grow Your Career at K&L Gates.”

If you agree that we are different from other law firms - and the right place for you to grow your career - please apply for this position.  For more information or to view other job opportunities, please click here to go back to our careers page.

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BENEFITS

We offer a dynamic work environment and excellent benefits.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

The Firm is an equal opportunity employer. It is the policy of the Firm that employment decisions shall be based on merit, qualifications and competence. Employment practices shall not be influenced or affected by virtue of a person’s race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, disability, military status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. This policy governs all aspects of employment including, without limitation, recruiting, hiring, compensation, benefits, promotion, assignment and dismissal. In addition, it is the Firm’s policy to provide an environment that is free of unlawful harassment of any kind including, without limitation, that which is sexual, racial, age-related, disability-related or ethnic background-related.