Network Engineer

Our Work Matters

At Kindeva we make products that save lives, ensuring better health and well-being for patients around the world.

The Impact You Will Make

As a Network Engineer, you will help manage the daily operations and support of Kindeva’s network and security infrastructure. You will be part of a team providing daily operational support, administration, troubleshooting, configuration, patching, disaster recovery and performance management of enterprise-wide data and voice technologies that includes IP routing, switching, WIFI and security systems.

Role Responsibilities

• Support engineer for enterprise IT networking environments (i.e., Palo Alto NGFW, Cisco routing, switching, WIFI, Azure Cloud and security technologies)
• Perform installation, build, and verification of core, edge, and access network infrastructure according to best practices.
• Coordinates with IT Cybersecurity, Architecture, and IT SMEs to design and optimize infrastructure and reference standards for operations, support, and resiliency.
• Ensures proper maintenance of voice and data networking documentation (work instructions, IT technical guides, verification reports, architecture diagrams) and procedures (SOPs, build standards, change-management).
• Manages network monitoring with Solarwinds performance monitoring; takes corrective actions to return systems and applications to business service levels.
• Monitor health, capacity, utilization, and performance of entire network infrastructure. Conduct troubleshooting and tuning as necessary. Document actions in ticketing system.
• Maintains technical competency through research and training; remains current in technology advances and industry best practices relative role scope and system operations.
• Ensures periodic assessments of local site networking infrastructure are executed and planned upgrades are completed per direction.
• Effectively communicates and coordinates technical response with IT Service Delivery Manager and IT Technical SMEs during major incidents / unplanned outages and planned outages.
• Maintains infrastructure inventory/assets and related configurations; helps drive alignment and corrections to standards and tools (eg. Configuration Management).
• Participates in local change advisory teams and coordinates and communicates changes with key stakeholders. Has deep understanding and appreciation for change management processes and documentation practices.
• Escalates and works with IT management to help resolve complex issues related to networking infrastructure.

 Basic Qualifications

• Associates degree in IT related field, or equivalent experience
• Experience with Cisco switches/routers - 2900, 3750X stack, 3900, Meraki, etc.
• Ability to work on-site at our St Louis Mo manufacturing facilities.
• 4+ years infrastructure build, design, and support – including ITIL processes.
• Cisco certifications CCT, CCNA or other relevant network certifications.

Preferred Qualifications

• ITIL Certification.
• Dynamic routing protocol configuration - EIGRP/OSPF/BGP.
• Cisco ASA firewall or Checkpoint firewall experience.
• Site-to-site VPN tunnel, Palo Alto Global Protect, Cisco AnyConnect SSL VPN.
• Cisco Wireless - 5500 series controllers and APs.
• Cisco Firepower IDS/IPS or other IDS/IPS technology.
• Management of IP addressing scheme.
• Experience working in small-medium enterprise (1000-2000 employees).
• SolarWinds Orion administration and configuration.
• Telecommunications experience.
• Background in scripting languages, Perl, PowerShell, or other.
• Certificate management.
• Proofpoint Email Protection and Enterprise Archive.
• Palo Alto Private Access and Internet Access (or similar remote access and web gateway solutions).

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