[Remote] Network Engineer - Remote

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Ferguson is a Fortune 500 infrastructure and building-supplies company serving customers across multiple industries through approximately 1,700 locations. The Network Engineer will provide high-level engineering support for the organization’s LAN, WAN, WLAN, SD-WAN, Meraki, VPN, cloud, and network security infrastructure, while designing, monitoring, troubleshooting, optimizing, and maintaining network operations.

Responsibilities

• Collaboratively design/manage all WAN/LAN, WLAN, VPN, and Network Infrastructure
• Work in tandem with other engineers and architects, the Network Operations Center (NOC), Security Operations Center (SOC), incident responders (when anomalous activity occurs), technology infrastructure and development team members
• Good troubleshooting of all network infrastructure
• Proactively research, analyze and recommend new technologies to meet changing business needs
• Improve the infrastructure's uptime, performance and reliability
• Establishing and implementing standards and policies for all network infrastructure
• Accountable for optimizing network performance for scalability, reliability and usability
• Optimally work as part of a team to meet team goals and objectives
• Develop and maintain documentation related to design/changes in network infrastructure
• Configures, troubleshoots and scales load balancing platforms, with a focus on F5-based/specific environments
• Design network configuration settings for internal and external systems, including modification of DHCP, VPN, SD-WAN and VLANs
• Modifying both core and edge routers and switch configurations as needed
• Supporting team on escalated major incidents technical infrastructure issues and follow through to satisfactory resolution
• Coordinating installation, repair or maintenance of network hardware equipment
• Partnering with IT Service Delivery, NOC and Operations Managers to maintain hardware and software inventory to ensure compliance and asset management
• Accurately documenting all new system implementations and modifications to existing systems (moves, adds, changes)
• Ownership in Disaster Recovery planning, development and implementation for network infrastructure
• Ensuring compliance with IT Security and Governance processes, such as Change control, SOX and PCI
• Identify and implement technical and service improvements
• Ensuring technology documents/certificates such as product registrations, licensing, activations, SSL certificates, maintenance agreements, service contracts, etc. related to technology operations and/or technology services are evaluated, updated and processed
• Ensuring networks and associated software applications are operational; ensure hardware and software is patched and/or updated; ensure all data circuits are operational in accordance with vendor specifications
• Maintaining knowledge on network technologies and evaluating new technologies to gain business efficiency
• Performing other duties or functions as requested by management

Skills

• 3+ years of experience or more of Data Center, SDWAN, Cloud, Wireless, Load-Balancer, Routing, Firewall, Monitoring technologies
• Associate's degree in computer science, information assurance, MIS, or related field, or equivalent experience
• Technical background in Network Engineering including Cisco (Nexus/Catalyst), Meraki, Palo, SDWAN technologies (Versa/Cisco/Silverpeak) and general Information Security knowledge
• Highly technical and analytical expertise, with a proven deep background in technology design, implementation, and delivery
• Experience in network engineering, including large scale design, datacenter (hosted and cloud), and local LAN technologies
• Must be self-motivated, proactive, creative, and efficient in identifying issues, understanding, and proposing solutions
• Solid understanding of network protocols
• Experienced with Cisco and Palo Alto firewalls
• Track record of acting with integrity, taking pride in work, seeking to excel, being curious and adaptable, and communicating effectively
• Excellent written, oral, instructional, presentation, and interpersonal skills
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office software (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, etc.)
• Improves and/or adapts work methods based on past firsthand experiences, without the benefit of defined procedures, and identifies solutions to problems through interpretive skills and analyses
• Knowledge of applicable wireless security and privacy practices and compliance with SOX and PCI
• Excellent ability to organize, prioritize, and document work with minimal direction from Manager and deliver within critical dates
• Lead, mentor and empower individuals and team members
• Ability to travel up to 5% as needed
• Establishes operational plans and implements strategic goals. Develops and implements new processes and procedures. Requires independent completion of work where judgment and discretion are required
• Solves complex problems without defined procedures. Solutions to problems require innovation and ability to assess multi-functional impacts. Is a recognized problem solver
• Communicates and influences within and outside of function. Typically, responsible for communicating externally (e.g., customers, vendors, etc.)
• Highly proficient communication skills and ability to effectively present to senior and executive leadership
• Develops high level project plans including tasks (in and outside of the immediate team) and dates
• 7+ years' IT experience
• Technical Certifications are preferred; CCIE (Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert), CCNP (Cisco Certified Network Professional), or CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) are desirable

Benefits

• Fully remote work arrangement, based anywhere in the United States
• Health benefits
• Dental benefits
• Vision benefits
• Paid time off
• Life insurance
• 401(k) with a company match
• Mental health coverage
• Gender affirming benefits
• Family building benefits
• Paid parental leave
• Associate discounts
• Community involvement opportunities
• Bonus or Incentive Plan eligible

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