Principal Network Engineer/ Routing and Switching

Job Description

You will be part of our Global Network Services team responsible for implementing, maintaining, and optimizing our regional/local network infrastructure, ensuring high network performance/reliability, and delivering critical network services to meet business goals.

Key responsibilities include:

• Plan, build, manage, optimize, and provide operational support for US/global network infrastructure & services to ensure high resiliency/reliability.
• Provide technical leadership to support complex Manufacturing/Office LAN/WAN/VPN and wireless infrastructure.
• Implement changes to hardware and/or software that improve network performance, speed and connectivity.
• Troubleshoot network issues related to BGP, OSPF, VLAN, Spanning Tree, WAN, network hardware/software, wireless etc.
• Align with Global Network Services team to incorporate company standards and preferred practices into local site network builds.
• Ensure local/regional network infrastructure is properly monitored. Act as point of contact and Subject Matter Expert to respond to network incidents/service requests according to Service Level Agreements. 
• Partner with Security or Cyber Defense team to fix detected vulnerabilities with systems and users to maintain high security standard.
• Interact/communicate with vendors, service providers, peers, stakeholders, and business units for effective integration/operations of services and systems.
• Lead, plan and participate in IT projects and Maintenance Window activities.
• Maintain close collaboration with other global IT functional teams.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 - 12 years professional experience in Network Routing, Switching, Wireless, and Network Security.
• Good understanding of network design practices from small office to large campus.
• Hands-on experience and in-depth knowledge in networking technologies/solutions including BGP, OSPF, HA, VLAN, Spanning Tree, EtherChannel, QoS, WAN, etc.
• Solid understanding of data center networking technologies and solutions including Cisco/Arista switches, WAN routers, structured cabling etc.
• Excellent communication skills on technical and non-technical concepts.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to establish professional working relationships with varying levels of both business and technical personnel.
• Good understanding of network utility services including TFTP, FTP, DNS, DHCP, NTP, SNMP, SYSLOG, etc.
• Exceptional documentation skills that can clearly articulate technical designs, issues and constraints, procedures, and network assessments.
• Strong project management, analytical and problem determination/resolution skills.
• Proactive and resourceful.
• Familiar with network scanning/analysis procedures and toolsets for network readiness assessments.
• Experience working in a manufacturing environment is a plus.
• Technical certification such as CCNP/CCIE or equivalent is preferred.