What are the responsibilities and job description for the Network Infrastructure Engineer position at Denken Solutions, Inc.?
Requirement Title: Senior Infrastructure Specialist
Location: St.Louis, MO
Contract: 12 months
Hybrid role - 4 days Onsite and 1 day Remote
Job Description:
- The Senior Infrastructure Specialist provides LAN engineering design, review, and implementation for capital & local factory projects relating to network infrastructure at the various Factory locations.
- The Sr Infrastructure Specialist also acts as a technical resource to NPPC Factories, providing technical network assistance, support, and dissemination of technical information regarding production LANs.
- This position will be responsible for researching, proposing, and implementing new LAN technologies at the operating Factories.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Plans, develops, coordinates, and directs projects relating to the plant Local Area Network.
- Provides strategic direction in the area of Local Area Networks and related technologies for all plant locations.
- Conceives, plans, and conducts research in problem areas of the existing Local Area Networks at the plants, of considerable scope and complexity.
- Seeks out and applies methods, procedures, practices, and technology to improve performance level and efficiency of the plant LAN/WAN and associated equipment.
- Interacts and consults with external vendors, operations and plant personnel to obtain input required to provide a customer accepted product. Works with representatives of corporate and plant Engineering, Maintenance, and LGO, to determine sound solutions to opportunities related to the plant Local Area Networks.
- Acts as a technical expert and resource to the Factories, answering questions and troubleshooting difficult LAN/WAN issues.
- Conducts wireless surveys and makes recommendations for optimization of factory wireless infrastructure.
- Provides On-Call Support for factory production after normal business hours on a rotation.
- Acts as the primary contact for all issues related to the Local Area Networks and associated technologies for internal and external entities outside of engineering.
- Perform all other duties as assigned.
OTHER DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Subject Matter Expert in CISCO/HPE Aruba routers and switches.
- Working knowledge of Industrial networking.
- Strong understanding of CISCO/HPE Aruba wireless networks, security and connectivity.
- Support the current LAN/WAN configurations at each factory while adhering and following Client standards and best practices.
- Participates in on-call rotation for Factory support after business hours.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS (Minimum):
- Education: BS degree in related field and/or 5 years of experience.
- Certification(s): CCNA / CCNP / HPE Aruba certifications preferred but not required.
Experience (Years/Type):
- 5 years in technology field in two or more of the following.
- Cisco Switches / Routers / Industrial switching.
- HPE Aruba Switches / Routers / Industrial Switching.
- Firewalls – CheckPoint / Fortinet / Cisco.
- Wireless LAN controllers Cisco / HPE Aruba.
- Mobile Solutions.
- Microwave/Laser Bridges.
- LAN Network Monitoring devices – Solarwinds Orion / Pingdom / Cisco DNA Center / Aruba Central / ThousandEyes / Grafana / NetBrain.
- Service Now ITSM.
Skills:
- Technical competency in CISCO/HPE Aruba routers and switches configuration and support.
- Working knowledge of Ethernet network troubleshooting tools and methodologies.
- LAN topology design, configuration, and support.
- VLAN architecture design, configuration, and support.
- CISCO/HPE Aruba Wireless networks, Industrial networks, and implementation of all of the above.