Network Engineer-Detroit

Network Engineer
- Hybrid at Auburn Hills, MI This is a hybrid role, required onsite 3 days per week at the client’s location in Auburn Hills, MI MHP at a Glance

MHP is a German management and IT consultancy headquartered in Ludwigsburg. For nearly three decades, the company has been driving the transformation of processes and products for around 300 clients worldwide. As a trusted partner in the automotive, manufacturing, aerospace, public, and defense sectors, MHP supports its clients in strategy and IT transformations across the entire value chain. A subsidiary of Porsche AG, the company provides both strategic and operational consulting in key areas such as factory planning, supply chain management, integration and scaling, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, program management, and platforms & ecosystems.

The goal is to sustainably enhance speed, sovereignty, and resilience. With around 4,700 employees worldwide, MHP is united by a shared commitment to excellence and long‑term success. This ambition continues to drive the company – today and in the future.

The Network Engineer/Architect implements, maintains standards and procedures to protect the integrity and availability of information systems data network. The position is responsible for 3rd level operational network support, including the implementation of both hardware and operating systems per the client’s network policy. They provide a timely response to approved business unit, developer, and administrator community requests for assistance including project support.

The position requires participation in a 24‑hour on‑call support for scheduled changes, and to resolve data network problems/issues. In addition to verifying organizational compliance with established policies and procedures, this person will be responsible for the health and daily monitoring of data network equipment, these may include Ethernet switches, routers, firewalls, load balancers, domain name servers, virtual private network appliances and network monitoring tools.

Oversee the design and development of 55+ sites and the Data Center network.

• Advances functionality within the network automation, simulation, and automated validation solutions (Ansible / Net Miko / Terraform / Python / Cisco CML / GNS3 etc)
• Ensures the lifecycle of network infrastructure is maintained and optimized. This starts with determining the design, collecting requirements, and proposing a solution and continues to ensure that regular operational tasks like patching are done leveraging best methods like automation, culminating with ensuring the hardware is replaced through a managed end‑of‑life process.
• Drives a continuous improvement process to identify opportunities to eliminate waste and improve processes
• Informs management of critical issues that may affect clients or the infrastructure and provides recommendations for mitigation.
• Works with network product vendors and other Enterprise Architects and Network Team Leads to implement network improvements, and new data network products and technology.
• Involved in a wide range of issues including electronic data traffic, network security, domain name servers, network load balancing, virtual private networks, local area networks, wireless local area networks and firewalls.
• Analyze and understand the organization’s environment and architecture, proposing solutions to meet customer requirements
• Audit third‑party providers for compliance with network support and implementation policies as needed.
• Maintains required documentation for all data network activities.
• Analyzes complex network issues within prescribed service levels.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent real‑life experience in Data Networking
• Understanding of core networking processes and access control
• Cisco CCNP (Routing and Switching or Datacenter) and experience with Cisco Networks
• WAN Technologies (MPLS), Routing Protocols (BGP and OSPF) and supporting technologies (like BFD)
• Cisco CCIE – Enterprise Infrastructure (Desired)
• 7 plus years of network engineering and/or network architecture