Overview
The Senior Network Engineer will play a critical role in leading the migration of network infrastructure and SonicWall firewalls for a key project. In this hands-on position, you will collaborate closely with various teams to ensure a smooth transition with minimal disruption to business operations. You will be responsible for managing the migration from an existing SonicWall NSa 2700 to a new NSa 2800, emphasizing your expertise in firewall configurations, VPN setups, and network cutovers.
Responsibilities
- Lead the discovery, design, and delivery of the network migration.
- Review and document the existing firewall, routing, VLAN, NAT, DHCP, and VPN environment.
- Configure and migrate an existing SonicWall NSa 2700 to a SonicWall NSa 2800.
- Configure and validate site-to-site VPN connectivity between offices, Azure, and third-party environments.
- Migrate and support SSL VPN remote access services for approximately 150-180 users.
- Build and test the new environment alongside the existing infrastructure.
- Produce migration plans, testing procedures, and rollback documentation.
- Provide post-migration support and technical handover.
Requirements
- Strong hands-on experience with SonicWall firewalls, ideally NSa appliances.
- Proven experience delivering SonicWall firewall migrations, upgrades, or replacements.
- Extensive experience configuring and troubleshooting site-to-site VPNs, IPSec VPNs, SSL VPNs/NetExtender.
- Strong understanding of routing, switching, VLANs, NAT, DHCP, and DNS.
- Experience connecting on-premise environments into Microsoft Azure.
- Ability to independently plan, configure, test, and implement network changes.
- Strong technical documentation and stakeholder communication skills.