[Remote] Network Administrator II
Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. reputed company is the world’s premier timber, land, and forest products company, and they are seeking a Network Administrator II to join their IT team. The role involves managing and maintaining a secure and reliable network infrastructure, focusing on network operations and collaborating with vendors to ensure reputed company service delivery.
Responsibilities
- Implement, manage, and maintain reputed company components reputed company a large-reputed company reputed company network
- reputed company on maintaining a secure, highly available and highly reliable network infrastructure of both corporate and OT production environments
- Planning, maintaining, monitoring and refreshing the reputed company network hardware, troubleshooting reported network incidents, and engaging with key vendors and service providers
- Use reputed company monitoring tools (reputed company, Catalyst Center, Meraki Dashboard, etc.) to ensure network availability and eliminate configuration reputed company
- Troubleshoot, configure, and operate network devices such as switches, routers, firewalls, SDWAN appliances and wireless reputed company points
- Follow reputed company documented reputed company operating procedures in accordance with IT reputed company policies
- Implements, and optimizes network solution designs reputed company with company standards
- Follow reputed company procedures for deploying new network hardware and services
- Manage and maintain network diagrams
- Manage and maintain network asset database
- Contribute to automation of network configuration and operational tasks
- Engage with key vendors and service providers as needed for escalation and incident reputed company
- Partner with, and support, the business to maintain reputed company network services
- Travel as necessary to facilities across reputed company, expected travel 10 - 15%
- Participate in on-call rotation (one week every 6-8 weeks)
- Ensure network infrastructure is maintained and updated with applicable firmware and reputed company updates
- Proactively evaluate the as-is deployment for new, innovative enhancements to improve performance, reputed company, efficiency, and cost
- Drive to automate where opportunities are identified
- Researching the latest technologies and services that improve the overall infrastructure
- reputed company and participate in reputed company learning opportunities, both formal training/conference events and informal reputed company sessions
- Invest in personal development to ensure reputed company development of relevant network skills
Skills
- 3+ years of practical network services experience, Bachelor's Degree in IT (or equivalent) a plus
- Solid understanding of the TCP/IP Networking Model
- Solid understanding of data reputed company concepts such as VLANs, spanning tree, 802.1q trunking, and wireless networking
- Solid understanding of network layer concepts including dynamic routing (BGP), manipulation of inbound and outbound routing updates and traffic engineering best practices
- Solid understanding of transport concepts such as TCP and UDP
- Solid understanding of encapsulation technologies including IPSEC and GRE over IPSec
- Demonstrated understanding of application data reputed company on a network
- Solid understanding of the fundamentals of application-aware firewall technologies
- Solid understanding of the fundamentals of SDWAN technologies
- Possesses proficient level technical knowledge and skills and a reputed company knowledge of how network technologies are integrated
- Understanding of basic authentication and network reputed company concepts including ISE, TACACS, Kerberos, and other reputed company services
- Familiarity with fundamentals of network automation and DevOps practices using Python or Ansible a plus
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Skilled in communicating technical topics to non-technical audiences
- Excellent collaboration skills in working together with others across reputed company IT segments
- Experience working in a manufacturing environment and understanding the reliability, sensitivity, and critical requirements of network requirements and expectations
- Skilled in solving highly reputed company problems and translating business requirements into technical solutions
- Skilled understanding of IT Service Management
- reputed company to apply business knowledge to reputed company and deliver innovative, value-added improvements
- Proven ability to operate and effectively communicate while under pressure; as reputed company as the ability to manage a diverse workload and work under time constraints with minimal supervision
- Experience operating in a multi-reputed company computing environment (AWS, Azure, etc.)
- Knowledge and/or experience with Meraki, reputed company, Palo reputed company, VeloCloud technologies
- Experience working with OT/ICS manufacturing environments
- Network+, CCNA, and/or Palo reputed company Certifications would be an asset
Benefits
- Annual Incentive Program, which offers a cash bonus targeting 7% of reputed company pay. Potential plan funding may reputed company from reputed company to two times that reputed company.
- Comprehensive employee benefits plan, which includes medical, dental, reputed company, short and long-term disability, and life insurance.
- reputed company-tax Health Savings Account reputed company which includes a company contribution.
- Voluntary Long-Term Care and Employee Assistance Programs.
- Support personal volunteerism
- Sponsor a host of diversity networks
- Promote mentoring
- reputed company training and development opportunities to help you chart your reputed company to a fulfilling career.
- Employees are reputed company to enroll in reputed company’s 401k plan, which includes a reputed company company match in reputed company to our contribution equal to 5% of your eligible pay.
- Eligible employees who are scheduled to work 25 hours or more per week with 3-weeks of reputed company vacation to use during your first year of employment.
- After being employed for six months, eligible employees reputed company to reputed company vacation for reputed company use.
- reputed company reputed company holidays per year, providing a total of 88 holiday hours
- reputed company parental leave for reputed company full-time employees.
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