**Title: Network Engineer - Advanced** **Location: Clinton Township, NJ** **Duration: 12+ months contract** **Pay Range $40 - $45/hour** **Job Summary** We are looking for a candidate with strong networking and customer-facing skills to support and enhance lab infrastructure. Key responsibilities include collaborating with lab techs, researchers, and engineering staff to understand requirements, managing incidents and changes, and ensuring efficient network administration. Duties involve configuring network devices, handling Active Directory accounts, troubleshooting firewall rules, implementing infrastructure changes, and maintaining security controls. The role also requires modernizing processes, maintaining server infrastructure, and managing data backups. Technical expertise in Cisco switches, PowerShell, SQL, SentinelOne, and various security and network management tools is essential. The ideal candidate should have experience with Windows Servers, network security, and cloud integrations, with flexibility for occasional after-hours and weekend work. **Responsibilities:** **Business interface** + Create strong partnerships with lab techs, researchers, and engineering staff (e.g., Informatics teams) to understand their requirements and create solutions as needed. + Incident & change management + Work off a prioritized backlog and respond to break/fix & enhancement requests as needed. Be available both on-site and remotely. + Plan, Implement and Coordinate Infrastructure changes, upgrades, outages **Network administration** + Adding network devices, computers, servers to the network and domain + Configuring ports using SolarWinds / submit Port Opening Requests (PORs) + Working frequently with the Network Security, Hosting & Platform Policy teams, and other Site IT Services teams. + Configuring network switches and routers + Troubleshooting ACL and firewall rule connections + Submit procurement requests for networking equipment for annual P&B + Automate/modernize processes + Modernize inventory maintenance + Proactively identify and drive retirement of legacy hardware & OS + Facilitate integrations with L4 solutions and cloud environments + Account creation + Password resets + Active directory maintenance + Folder access + Software installation + Update support documentation as needed **Security & Controls** + ~10 controls annually to review annually (firewall, shared IDs, inactive ID, SolarWinds access, inactive ports, etc.) + Vigilantly operate with privileged IDs and tighten security policies Technology you will work with: + Cisco switches + Splunk Firewall Event Viewer + Algosec Firewall Analyzer and FireFlow + WinSCP and MoveIT + PowerShell + SQL + SentinelOne + Legacy Windows operating systems **Active Directory** + Administer and maintain system accounts through Active Directory + Creating / deleting accounts + Granting Security Group access + Seeking Approval for Access Requests **Desired Skills:** + Server maintenance experience + Be available for quarterly server outages after business hours and occasional weekend outages. + Working knowledge of Windows Server 2003-2019+ File server administration (i.e., build servers) + Domain administration + Troubleshoot group policies + Data backup as a sysadmin (Veeam) + Security patch management (Ivanti maybe SCCM) + FTP servers (WinSCP and MoveIT) + Troubleshooting physical and virtual (VMWare) server issues on various hardware and OS + Antivirus administration (SEP & SentinelOne) + **Interview process:** Online interview. + We are looking for the candidate who are eligible to work with any employers without sponsorship. + If you’re interested, please click “Apply” button. + If you are not available or this job is not a good fit at present, please share with your network + We look forward to speaking with you! **About ManpowerGroup, Parent Company of:** **Manpower, Experis, Talent Solutions, and Jefferson Wells** _ManpowerGroup® (NYSE: MAN), the leading global workforce solutions company, helps organizations transform in a fast-changing world of work by sourcing, assessing, developing, and managing the talent that enables them to win. 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