Glanbia is a global nutrition company, grounded in science and nature and dedicated to providing better nutrition for every step of life’s journey.
Today’s consumers are increasingly aware of the importance of nutrition in improving their overall health and well being. They are searching for better, healthier and smarter nutritional solutions that fit their lifestyles.
Glanbia takes pure and clean ingredients including milk, whey and grains, and using our expert knowledge and capabilities we produce high-quality nutritional ingredients and branded consumer products for our customers and consumers worldwide.
We employ over 6,000 people across 32 countries and our products are sold or distributed in over 130 countries with an annual turnover of €3.6 billion. Our major production facilities are located in Ireland, the US, the UK, Germany and China. We have four segments; Glanbia Performance Nutrition, Global Ingredients, Dairy Ireland and Joint Ventures & Associates. Our shares are listed on the Irish and London Stock Exchanges (symbol: GLB).
The Network Architect will have responsibility for both the strategic direction and the day-to-day operations of Glanbia's global network and network security services. This includes maintaining network performance and reliability, determining and developing strategy and reference architectures, researching new technologies and approaches, creating standards and roadmaps, and developing recommendations for migrating to future standards. This role also works directly with other key stakeholders on joint solutions and holds responsibility for anything related to networking and network security implementation in Glanbia datacentre, cloud, office or manufacturing locations.
Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to identify current and future requirements that drive network and network security change programme activities
Leads the development of network related reference architectures and technical standards to provide road maps which specify future state and how to get there to increase capabilities, agility, scalability, and performance
Manage key vendors relationships to ensure network and network security services are delivered to agreed SLA’s
Completes technical designs for network and network security solutions, consulting with key stakeholders, assessing impact/interdependencies and leveraging their technical expertise to guide the implementation
Provides technical guidance, training, direction and reviews the work of Network team to ensure colleagues working on architectural issues to ensure alignment
Lead a team of Network & Network Security engineers including assignment of work, coaching, mentoring and guiding professional development
Fosters a culture of cooperation and trust across functional groups through consistent performance and communication
The skills you will bring to the team
Bachelor’s degree (NFQ 7 or higher) in IT or associated discipline
Significant previous experience gained directly related in a similar role
Experience of dealing with and managing third-party managed service providers
Strong experience in vendor management in a managed service environment
Demonstrated in-depth knowledge of LAN/WAN/Firewall/VPN/Internet access support and engineering design for network and network security services at Access, Aggregation, and Core network locations
Experience in strategic planning, road mapping, programme of work prioritisation and capacity planning
Thorough understanding of modern service provider TCP/IP data networks using standards and technologies including but not limited to: MPLS, OSPF, BGP, 802.1x
Strong understanding of SDWAN concepts and architectures
Superior knowledge, skills and experience with Cisco routing hardware, software, protocols
Strong working knowledge of MDF, IDF, structured cabling systems, network facilities, electrical, UPS, etc.
Ability to work alone as an individual contributor, as a technical lead and as a participant in a team environment.