Senior IT Engineer, Network and Telecommunications

Smithfield is looking for a Senior IT Engineer, Network and Telecommunications to be involved in network and telecommunications operations, resolving complex issues, design and build of innovative solutions for strategic projects, mentoring and training of team members. The position is responsible for setting, managing, and maintaining company-wide deployment of network and telecommunications standards, orchestration of build, management and service processes, administration and monitoring capabilities. This position will collaborate with other IT teams, business units, and vendors to design and implement technical solutions that align to the Infrastructure strategy.

Responsibilities

Provide technical expertise and leadership on implementation teams deploying new systems and operational processes; Provide technical expertise and leadership in the development of detailed implementation and contingency plans; Continuously improve current state by employing performance tuning activities while monitoring, troubleshooting and resolving complex problems; Provide technical leadership and advanced network and telecommunications administration and support for daily operations for both on-premise and cloud services; Analyze, evaluate, and recommend options on existing or proposed network and telecommunications technologies and solutions to ensure compliance with security, performance, reliability and scalability; Leverage relationships with external service providers to achieve results driving operational excellence; Conduct research and evaluation of new enterprise technologies, processes, upgrades and enhancements to determine capabilities that meet performance and budgetary requirements; Participate in the strategy, management and governance of IT process and operations with the implementation of infrastructure services; design solutions that meet existing and future requirements; Employ exceptional problem-solving skills to see troublesome trends and solve issues before they affect business productivity; Understand current, organic growth, and new project requirements for capacity and performance planning and communicate this information to I&O leadership for financial planning; Provide mentorship and training for fellow team members; educate teams on the implementation of new network and telecommunication services; Drive and own the creation and maintenance of documentation of network and telecommunication services design and specifications

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree from an accredited four-year college or university and 5+ years of relevant experience in enterprise administration of network and telecom systems, or equivalent combination of education and experience; Technical knowledge and hands on experience with routing in an enterprise environment, including BGP, EIGRP, OSPF; Technical knowledge and hands on experience with switching in an enterprise environment, including spanning tree, VLAN, VTP; Technical knowledge and hands on experience with firewalls in an enterprise environment, including VPN administration for end user and site-to-site support; Technical knowledge and hands on experience in an enterprise WAN environment with implementing and administration, including SD-WAN and DMVPN; Experience working with multi cloud enterprise environments and understanding of advanced network capabilities and services, including security groups and NSGs; Technical knowledge and hands on experience with wireless networks in an enterprise environment; Technical knowledge or understanding of telecom voice services in an enterprise environment, provider services, cloud VoIP; Technical knowledge or understanding of DNS, DHCP, SMB, Subnetting, NetFlow, Cisco DNA; Technical knowledge or understanding of monitoring tools and packet level understanding; Knowledge or programming skill used for network automation of processes and services; Knowledge of operational characteristics of infrastructure services, systems, hardware and software; Ability to adapt to changing technologies and learn functionality of new equipment and systems; Self-motivated, analytical, and possessing excellent problem-solving and follow-through skills; Able to find root causes of problems, quickly determine efficient solutions, anticipate risks and mitigate in the moment; Ability to analyze, translate, and define business requirements into technical solutions; Knowledge of principles, methods and techniques used in the installation, troubleshooting and maintenance of network and telecom infrastructure and application impacts and dependencies; Informal leadership and partnering skills with key departments (Security team); Strong interpersonal skills, team player with service-oriented style; Work independently in the absence of supervision; Excellent organizational, technical, and business communication skills; Must be able to visit and comfortably work in a plant, warehouse, distribution center or other manufacturing facility; Up to 25% travel required

Nice to have

Fortinet experience; AWS and Azure experience; Cisco Wireless experience; Microsoft Teams Phone experience; Cisco ISE experience; SolarWinds and Wireshark experience; Python programming skills

Benefits

Relocation Package Available