Bank of America
Network authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) Engineer_
Bank of America, Plano, Texas, United States, 75026
Network authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) EngineerPlano, Texas;Richmond, Virginia**Job Description:**At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We’re devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us!**Position Summary:**The role of the Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) Implementation Engineer is to provide technical implementation services to support the evolution and ongoing support of the AAA environment in response to projects (all types), upgrades, service and feature enhancements and for remediation/break-fix services they work closely with Program and Project Managers and other support and service providers.. The work is always in alignment to the current and approved architectural, roadmaps, technology standards and templates, process, governance and change management policies set forth by the firm. AAA is part of the control for wired, wireless, device access and re, mote users. Ability to work as part of a team as well as individually depending on project. While the role primarily has an implementation and validation engineering focus, a strong understanding of AAA policy, posture, protocols and cluster deployment and maintenance concepts are required. They also need to forecast the delivery and track of multi-phase work against change and release calendar(s). They need to fully understand and adhere to the bank change processes.They must be mindful of how their role impacts the firm’s business and reputation. Concepts such as driving value, always delivering quality, keeping commitments, being on-time and under-budget, effective and detailed communications. Managing time is critical, developing and managing tasks efficiently is the key to success.This position will interface directly with internal and external customers/suppliers/providers, Architecture, Product Engineering, Design/Implementation engineering, Change, Service and Product Management, finance and business management and Operations teams. Interface with various levels of senior management. Strong written, verbal and presentation skills are a must. The candidate must be able to work on their own and successfully in team settings in various sizes and locations. Adherence and use of standards, product sets, templates, systems, and artifacts are important to the success change, the department and the firm at large.**Job Description:**This job is responsible for infrastructure tool/service designs within technical domains in accordance with architectural governance, standards and policies. Key responsibilities include facilitating deployment of tools/services by leading others in solution development, maintenance of templates, playbooks and automation used during implementation. Job expectations include demonstrating expertise within technical domains, decomposing issues or objectives into work units, advancing efficient solution delivery practices, and promoting exceptional design, engineering and organizational practices.**Responsibilities:**+ Confirms that application and business requirements have been translated into technical definitions, reference models, blueprints, and playbooks to guide development and integration of technology solutions+ Contributes to the creation/selection of functional and non-functional product evaluation requirements within and across domains+ Reviews and may develop software solutions to address manual and repeatable work or inefficient processes+ Reviews and guides the evaluation of reference models, blueprints, playbooks and the execution of on-site evaluations of third-party products being considered for firm adoption+ Mentors and assists Infrastructure resources on infrastructure service along with application integration validation methods and tools to ensure that technology solutions comply with enterprise system design and engineering standards+ Promotes an inclusive and healthy working environment and help to resolve organizational impediments/blockers+ Attending Project Meetings as needed+ Scheduling of the changes with the assigned engineer+ Representing change records (CRQs) on various calls+ Representing on regional pre-CAB Weekly+ Socializing changes to the other peer teams regionally so they can represent changes in region.+ Following up with Testers / Testing Coordination for all Changes+ Ensuring Peer Reviews are attached to CRQs / Chasing Approvals+ Creates changes (CRQs) when RDM engineer provides the Network document.+ AAA weekly internal change calls - weekly+ Attends various change review calls+ Reviews test plans and results, ability to assist in driving to root cause+ Familiarity with working in regulated and/or large global enterprises is a plus.+ Building, updating and sending Change Communication templates for the weekends changes+ Create work orders and other requests to engage Blackbox and device, firewall and IP services update**Required Qualifications:**+ Strong subject matter expertise across various enterprise identity authentication technologies ranging from AAA (RADIUS/TACACS), 802.1X technologies (Wired/Wireless), RSA and token-based systems.+ Experience with Aruba ClearPass Policy Server or Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) is required.+ Experience with Network Access Control (NAC) 802.1X for Wired and Wireless networks is required.+ Experience with Remote Access (VPN posture) is preferred.+ Experience with Secure Cloud Analytics (Stealthwatch) is preferred.+ Experience working with SSL Certificate Authorities, and certificate management.+ Strong experience and detailed technical knowledge in security engineering, system and network security, authentication and authorization protocols, cryptography, and application security, load balancing.+ Experience with tools such as Splunk, Excel, ideally experience in automation.+ Expert understanding of network protocols TCP/IP, HTTP, HTTPS, SSL, TLS, 802.1.X, etc.+ Experience with testing and change validation, root cause analysis, risk mitigation, security assessments, analysis of security threats, trends and architectural preferred.+ Project Management, ITSM+ Experience with Change Management and CAB processes and procedures.+ Leadership: be a self-starter, self-directed and shows initiative.+ Focused on execution, delivery, and commitment to dates. Ability to work in a high paced environment. Can manage risk; is a good decision maker. Understands the big picture; can relate to the firm’s strategy and actions and how they support our business results.+ Demonstrates ownership: Is accountable and influential/can hold others accountable (professionally).+ Strong written and verbal communications skills. Ability to communicate and influence upward as well as laterally.+ Organized and detail oriented.**Desired Qualifications:**+ Clearpass+ Stealthwatch+ ISE+ AAA+ SPLUNK+ Excel+ MS Project+ Load balancing+ Captive portals+ NA3RC+ Network configuration**Skills:**+ Analytical Thinking+ Application Development+ Production Support+ Risk Management+ Solution Design+ Automation+ Business Acumen+ DevOps Practices+ Solution Delivery Process+ Stakeholder Management+ Adaptability+ Architecture+ Innovative Thinking+ Project Management+ Technical Strategy Development**Shift:**1st shift (United States of America)**Hours Per Week:**40Bank of America and its affiliates consider for employment and hire qualified candidates without regard to race, religious creed, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, protected veteran or disability status or any factor prohibited by law, and as such affirms in policy and practice to support and promote the concept of equal employment opportunity and affirmative action, in accordance with all applicable federal, state, provincial and municipal laws. 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