Shift4

Network Engineer III

Shift4 United States

Shift4

Network Engineer III

Shift4 United States

Overview

Shift4 (NYSE: FOUR) is boldly redefining commerce by simplifying complex payments ecosystems across the world. As the leader in commerce-enabling technology, Shift4 powers billions of transactions annually for hundreds of thousands of businesses in virtually every industry. For more information, visit www.shift4.com.

Responsibilities

The Network Engineer III will work with a team of network professionals to ensure the continuous operations of the corporate network infrastructure that supports many users across several sites in a stable, secure and scalable fashion.

  • Manage the corporate network infrastructure including network switches, routers, load balancers, firewalls and the management platforms for those systems.
  • Keep the performance of the corporate network optimal and secure, perform upgrades and patching, monitor relevant network thresholds, capacity and latency, adjust configurations to optimize traffic flow.
  • Work with Enterprise Security to maintain regulatory compliance (PCI and SOX) with network infrastructure components through vulnerability remediation, upgrades, configuration hardening and participate in recurring audits.
  • Work with Corporate IT to manage integrated network components including VPN tunnels and remote access, branch office switching and routing, VOIP service, providing assistance where needed
  • Manage relationships with Internet service providers including review recurring billing/invoicing, new orders, or changing circuit proposals.
  • Work with the systems engineers to build new infrastructure, troubleshoot systems performance problems, network packet capture, tracing and analysis, load balancer support
  • Architectural responsibilities for new technology and infrastructure to support new product development and corporate goals.
  • SME for network design and architecture to support development innovation, security initiatives, and payments infrastructure upgrades
  • Participates in on-call rotations to provide network engineering support
  • Works with the team of network engineers on ticket request handling to ensure standards are adhered to and service quality is maintained.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and skills.

Qualifications

  • Network certifications with Cisco and/or Juniper Networks (CCNA, CCNP, or equivalent preferred)
  • Certifications for the following are highly desired (in order of preference)
    • Datacenter networking – Cisco Nexus and/or ACI, Juniper, MDS Storage Fabric
    • Enterprise Firewalls – Palo Alto Networks, Juniper
    • Load balancers – A10, F5
  • Minimum of two completed years of higher education and/or trade school with a focus on IT, or 5 years of comparable work experience.
  • At least 5 years of experience with enterprise/datacenter load balancers, enterprise firewalls, corporate WiFi and WAN optimization solutions
  • Excellent IP networking fundamentals and extensive experience in the application of IP protocols
  • In-depth understanding of network design and security.
  • Excellent communication, organization and project management skills
  • Network engineering experience in payments or banking industry preferred with focus on supporting network infrastructure in SOX, PCI or other regulated environment a plus
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.
  • Seniority level

    Mid-Senior level
  • Employment type

    Full-time
  • Job function

    Information Technology
  • Industries

    Financial Services

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