Network Engineer

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Valent North America LLC is the shared services organization of Valent U.S.A. LLC and Valent Bio Sciences LLC, which are part of the Valent group of companies. As a wholly owned subsidiary of Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd., Valent North America unites the corporate Finance, Human Resources, Information Technology, Legal, and Environmental Health & Safety functions to maximize service delivery practices across the Valent group of companies.

Valent U.S.A. engages in the development, registration, sales, and marketing of integrated technological solutions for crop production and pest management that deliver value for customers and stakeholders. Valent Bio Sciences is a worldwide leader in the research, development, manufacturing, and commercialization of biorational products for the agriculture, public health, and forest health markets. Sumitomo Chemical is one of Japan’s leading chemical companies, offering a diverse range of products globally that support a wide variety of industries and help enhance peoples’ daily lives.

This role serves as a technical resource and network engineer within the IT Operations team, supporting both the IT Service Desk and Infrastructure sub‑teams. The position is responsible for designing, maintaining, and troubleshooting all company networks across office locations and datacenters in North America, including cloud and virtual networking environments. It also contributes to resolving Service Desk and Infrastructure tickets that involve network or related technical issues.

The engineer provides both on‑site and remote support while developing network‑related architectural designs for IT systems and applications. This includes work involving switches, routers, firewalls, cloud platforms (AWS), laptops, desktops, servers in both on‑premises and cloud environments, printers, networks, peripherals, and vendor‑supported software. The role maintains and creates all network diagrams and documentation related to the company’s IT infrastructure. In addition, this position leads networking‑related infrastructure projects and initiatives, collaborating closely with the Enterprise Architect/Team Lead and the Senior Manager of IT Service Delivery and Operations.

Overall, it combines the responsibilities of a network engineer with elements of an IT infrastructure engineer, with a strong emphasis on networking functions.

• Designs, maintains, and supports all North American company networks across offices, datacenters, and cloud environments
• Maintains and administers the SD‑WAN infrastructure
• Assists with IT infrastructure tasks and resolves non‑network Service Desk tickets as assigned
• Takes full ownership of IT issues, driving them to timely resolution and ensuring all deadlines are met
• Serves as the owner of all network uptime‑related SLAs for the organization
• Functions as an escalation point for Service Desk and Infrastructure network alerts
• Responds to after‑hours alerts and incidents as required
• Collaborates closely with the Enterprise Architect/Team Lead to achieve Service Desk and Infrastructure goals and initiatives
• Delivers exceptional IT customer service, maintaining the highest standards of professionalism and follow‑through
• Provides frequent and clear communication to end users throughout the ticket resolution process.
• Implements, manages, and maintains network infrastructure including firewalls, routers, switches, and related components
• Designs, supports, and maintains all networking hardware within the organization
• Designs, supports, and maintains cloud networking and virtual infrastructure environments, primarily within AWS
• Manages patching processes for firewalls, switches, routers, and access points to ensure security compliance
• Supports remote access technologies such as VPN and RDP
• Creates and maintains IT knowledge base articles and documents IT systems, processes, and procedures
• Participates…