Americold is a global provider of temperature-controlled infrastructure. We partner with farmers and food producers to ensure their perishable and frozen product reaches foods suppliers, restaurants, and your local grocery store without spoilage. Our customers, which include some of the most respected brands in the food industry, rely on our expertise and commitment to safety in order to deliver on their commitments.

Primary Responsibility:
Responsible for providing hands-on network engineering for a world-class enterprise network, to include deployment projects and initiatives. The Network Engineer II will be ensuring all equipment such as routers, switches and access points are set up correctly and ready for deployment, and maintained after installation. Network design and development for future technologies will be expected. Troubleshooting and decision making both with and without team support. This Network Engineer II will be expected to apply your knowledge of network engineering to ensure all projects and deliverables are completed accurately and on time.
Essential Functions:
* Responsible for configuring routers, switches, and access points
* Network design for future enhancement and expansion
* Ability to troubleshoot independently in downtime or outage situations
* Ability to operate in remote locations solo to produce full connectivity for users
* Travel requirement: up to 50% for network device deployments

Qualifications & Experience:
* Associates or Bachelor's Degree, or technical institute degree/certificate or equivalent work experience
* 8 years experience in Information Technology
* 5 years experience in Network Engineering
* 5 years experience in Route/Switch Network Support
Physical Requirements:
* Requires the ability to sit for long periods of time, with frequent interruptions
* Requires several hours per day of sitting, getting up and down from chairs, and reaching, or bending
* Requires manual dexterity with normal hand and finger movements for typical office work
* Talking, hearing, and seeing are important elements of completing assigned tasks
* May require travel by automobile and airplane up for business
* May require a visit facility operations in temperatures at or below freezing
* May carry loads related to travel and occasionally lifts, carries, positions, or moves objects weighing up to 20 pounds
* Requires the use of various electronic tools
* Requires the ability to relate to others beyond giving and receiving instructions: must partner with colleagues without exhibiting behavioral extremes
* Requires the performance of work activities including reasoning, negotiating, instructing, persuading, or speaking with others; and respond appropriately to constructive feedback from executive management
Americold is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
EOE/AA M/F/D/V DFW.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
* Cisco ISR Routers
* Cisco Catalyst Switches
* Cisco ASA/Firepower Firewalls
* VMware knowledge
* Netscaler knowledge

Our associates know the answer to the question What's in it for me? We offer best-in-class benefit programs and continuously work with our associates to ensure that our offerings meet the needs of their health and financial well-being. When you join Americold you join a values-oriented company with a clear mission. We help our customers feed the world.

Americold is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

EOE/AA M/F/D/V DFW.