How will you make an impact? As a member of Thermo Fisher Scientific, youll do exciting work! Join a team that values performance, quality and innovation. As part of a successful, growing global organization you will be encouraged to perform at your best! With revenues of more than $40 billion and the largest investment in R&D in the industry, we give our people the resources and chances to create meaningful contributions to the world. This is a Sr. Network Engineering position with focus on SD WAN, firewall and wireless support. The Network Engineer will demonstrate in-depth knowledge of technical management and operational practices to develop the technical strategy used to improve the network globally. The candidate will collaborate with technical SMEs, architecture, and vendors to manage, maintain and operate the company network. The role will support in developing diagnostic and troubleshooting scripts, and validate new solutions required to support our ecosystems of manufacturing and research locations worldwide. This role will be a key part of a multifunctional team that designs, supports, secures, and maintains the underlying network infrastructure. What will you do?
Our global network operation center is ensuring that all outages, which are impacting our customers are resolved in a timely manner
We aim to fulfill our customer's requests according to our set of SLAs
We manage our network changes through a strict ITIL based process
We monitor network health, including metrics collection, visualization, and alerting
We track network utilization over time to assist capacity management models
We own the network monitoring settings, maintenance and network incident management SOPs
We self-serve problem management support for network root cause analysis, own and drive problem investigations, trend analysis
We proactively carry out network vulnerability and patch management, software upgrades
Be part of the team that supports, and improves a global network environment that includes routers, switches, firewalls, wireless controllers and load balancers.
Find opportunities to improve the corporate network by looking at the cause of the problems
Collaborate with the network SMES on optimization initiatives
Be responsible for having all aspects of the network environment documented.
Deliver mentorship and direction to lower level engineers and peer support groups
End to end coordination with our vendors and providers for issue resolutions
Handling the Service Now work queue to address customer requests within the established service level agreements.
Drive quality into the metrics we report, including measurement of issues, network capacity, vendor equipment/failures analysis and network performance, as well as continual assessment of the quality and effectiveness of network monitoring and alerting.
Responsible for documenting system maintenance, enhancements and performance for effective network operations and management
Call out complex topics and requests to senior engineers or SMEs
Find opportunities for automation and own these initiatives till completion in collaboration with respective SMEs and programmers
Guide our customers and colleagues on Global Network engagement and ITIL processes
Participate in technology trainings provided by SMEs or vendors
How will you get there?
BA/BS education and/or work experience in network engineering & operations is preferred
8-10 years of demonstrated ability in network engineering, operations
Deep experience with Cisco and Arista or Fortinet or F5 products and services
Automation related programming skills (Python or similar) is a nice to have
Good understanding of Networking and Security standards, practices and methods.
Solid grasp of SD-WAN management & troubleshooting is an advantage
Understanding and experience of cloud computing specifically relating to networks, including AWS and/or Azure is an advantage