Network Engineer (AVI and F5 load balancing SME) - Fidelity TalentSource LLC

Principal Network Engineer (F5 Load Balancing)

Fidelity TalentSource is your destination for discovering your next temporary role at Fidelity Investments. We are currently sourcing for a Principal Network Engineer to work in Fidelity's Enterprise Infrastructure group in Durham, NC!

The Principle Network engineer will be responsible for the overall network security design and providing secure connectivity solutions to the Fidelity enterprise allowing employees, partners, and customers to be more competitive, more productive, and more profitable in a global business environment. These responsibilities include crafting new enterprise network solutions, enabling new customer connectivity, securing the environment through tactical change management, as well as working in a cross-organizational fashion to consult and enable these services. The position will require a disciplined approach towards ITSM methodologies ensuring the delivery of information technology services to meet the needs of the business community!

• Manage and Design highly complex firewall and network environments for security of Fidelity's critical resources and enablement of revenue producing services
• Security Engineering through use of Firewalls, IDS/IPS, various proxy gateway and other network security devices to provide defense-in-depth protection from cyber security threats
• Engineering customer connectivity/onboarding based on requirements
• Collaborating with customers on standard methodologies and options
• Business to Customer as well as Business to Business Connectivity

(Internet, Extranet, Market Data, MPLS, and VPN connections)

• Solve issues related to the network or security environment (oncall rotation)
• Documentation of complex technologies and topologies based on security based practices
• Management of life cycle for various technologies within the space (includes vendor management)
• Shift operations support, in collaboration with operations and engineering staff
• Work closely with all EI divisions to ensure 24x7 availability GNS services
• Advancing issues as needed
• Assisting in trouble shooting network issues
• Member of 3rd level engineering on-call rotation

• 5+ years within the network security space
• 7+ years within the network engineering environment

• Extensive knowledge of TCP/IP, including application knowledge
• Network Security skills: Firewall, IPS/IDS, Malware Detection, Webfiltering etc.
• Network Engineering and Troubleshooting skills
• Routed/Routing Protocols: BGP, OSPF, MPLS, VRF, VPNs
• Application Traffic Analysis
• SDN
• Previous experience with attack mitigation, design concepts, and data protection
• Enterprise Security Policy knowledge and standard methodologies
• Knowledge of audit process
• Skilled verbally and with presenting to senior team members on strategic idea innovations
• Ability to work in a team environment
• Development / Automation experience strongly desired
• Security Certifications a plus
• Understanding of cloud concepts such as VPCs, V-Nets, Security groups and NACLs

Global Network Services is dedicated to the overall global network engineering and support for Fidelity Investments within Enterprise Infrastructure. The Internetwork Engineering group, within the Global Network Services team, is primarily responsible for engineering services for our customers. These include, routers, Ethernet switches, Wireless Access Points, MPLS/VPN connectivity, perimeter security firewalls, layer three proxies and file transfer services.

Safety is our top priority. Once we can be together in person with fewer safety measures, this role will follow our dynamic working approach. You'll be spending some of your time onsite depending on the nature and needs of your role.

Our aim is to combine the best of working offsite with coming together in person. For most teams this means a consistent balance of working from home and office that supports the needs of your role, experience level, and working style.

Your success and growth is important to us, so you'll want to enjoy the benefits of coming together in person – face to face learning and training, quality time with your manager and teammates, building your career network, making friends, and taking full advantage of cultural and social experiences Fidelity provides for you.

Fidelity TalentSource is the in-house temporary staffing provider for Fidelity Investments, one of the largest and most diversified global financial services firms in the industry. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds, including technology and customer service, to fill assignments across Fidelity’s U.S.-based regional and investor center locations. If you would like to experience Fidelity’s supportive and collaborative culture while expanding your skill set and developing your professional network, consider a role with Fidelity TalentSource. Apply today at 

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At Fidelity Investments, our customers are at the heart of everything we do. As a privately held company with a rich 75-year history, our mission has remained the same since our founding: to strengthen the financial well-being of our clients. We help people invest and plan for their future. We assist companies and non-profit organizations in delivering benefits to their employees. And we provide institutions and independent advisors with investment and technology solutions to help invest their own clients’ money. For information about working at Fidelity, visit

Fidelity Investments and Fidelity TalentSource are equal opportunity employers.