What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Infrastructure Specialist position at FuseGlobal?
Title: Senior Infrastructure Specialist
Location: St. Louis, MO
Company: Fortune 100 Food & Beverage Manufacturing (FuseGlobal has worked with this company for 20 years)
Initial term: 12 months (position expected to run longer)
Schedule: Monday - Thursday onsite, Friday WFH
Travel: 25%
Seeking a hands-on, individual contributor with extensive experience in Cisco and Aruba networking and some industrial networking.
Position Summary
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 our 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
FuseGlobal is a partnership of people and brand-leading companies, working together to make things run better. For 25 years we have brought functionality to complex business and production processes and supply chains, resulting in enterprises that run smarter and more sustainably. Interested in digital manufacturing, industrial engineering, supply chain management, all-things tech, and energy & the environment? This is where we live. Engage with us!
Location: St. Louis, MO
Company: Fortune 100 Food & Beverage Manufacturing (FuseGlobal has worked with this company for 20 years)
Initial term: 12 months (position expected to run longer)
Schedule: Monday - Thursday onsite, Friday WFH
Travel: 25%
Seeking a hands-on, individual contributor with extensive experience in Cisco and Aruba networking and some industrial networking.
Position Summary
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 our 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.
- 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 company standards and best practices.
- Participates in on-call rotation for Factory support after business hours.
- Education: BS degree in related field and/or 5 years of experience.
- Certification(s): CCNA / CCNP / HPE Aruba certifications preferred but not required.
- 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.
- $87.50 per hour Overtime
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k)
- Disability insurance
FuseGlobal is a partnership of people and brand-leading companies, working together to make things run better. For 25 years we have brought functionality to complex business and production processes and supply chains, resulting in enterprises that run smarter and more sustainably. Interested in digital manufacturing, industrial engineering, supply chain management, all-things tech, and energy & the environment? This is where we live. Engage with us!
Salary : $88