Network Engineer - Remote

Ferguson is a leading provider of quality supplies across various industries and is seeking a Network Engineer to join their IT Network Engineering team. The role involves providing high-level engineering support for the organization's network infrastructure, including the management of LAN/WAN/WLAN/SD-WAN, and ensuring optimal network performance and reliability.

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

Requirements:

• 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 (preferred 7+ years' IT experience) 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
• Technical Certifications are preferred; CCIE (Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert), CCNP (Cisco Certified Network Professional), or CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) are desirable