Lead Network Systems Engineer

It’s more than a jobIn this IT role, you will manage, develop, and support the technology infrastructure that powers Kuehne+Nagel’s global systems and operations. This contribution is vital to making both special and ordinary moments in the lives of people a reality. In fact, your work enables our teams to deliver fresh fruit, time-sensitive healthcare products and much more to people all around the world.

Working in IT at Kuehne+Nagel contributes to more than we imagine. How you create impact

Your role as a Lead Network Support Engineer is to keep sight of the bigger picture to drive forward our network and network security infrastructure. As an expert for network and network security you´ll implement the right technologies, which meet the company’s demands to be innovative and secure at the same time. This position is hands‑on lead position and responsible for troubleshooting through diagnostic techniques and determines the best solution based based on the issue and details provided by internal and external customers.

• Manage and support assigned projects, which include responsibility for planning, time and cost control, resource utilization and implementation.
• Research and develop innovative solutions around unified network solutions.
• Provide strategic technical direction on highly complex network systems projects and activities involving the selection and recommendation of design approach and systems software technology.
• Responsible for the evaluating, designing, deploying, and managing network and network security solutions
• Develop detailed requirements for upgrading existing corporate network, as well as re-architecting network segments in order to facilitate new requirements, technologies and growth.
• Ensure the integrity, availability and performance of our network infrastructure
• Solve network trouble tickets and support vertical departments, i.e. Service Desk, Applications and Open Systems as it pertains to networking
• Drive forward standardization at a global scale to enable seamless integration, global support and infrastructure automation.
• Leverage automation for network solution and utilize infrastructure‑as‑a‑code principle
• Take care of lifecycle management for network and network security solutions
• Ensure network hardware firmware and OS are compliant and updated
• Learn, maintain, and monitor network infrastructure tools such as Grafana, Lanweeper, Cisco, vManage, Infoblox, Centreon Airwave, Clearpass and Zscaler
• Create manage and maintain network diagrams and documentation

• 3+ Years of operational team lead experience
• Ability to effectively and efficiently manage multiple projects and competing deadlines with minimal supervision.
• Experienced in managing large scale enterprise networks
• Deep knowledge of network transport protocols, LAN, WAN and network security technologies
• Solid understanding of WiFi technologies
• Knowledge of transport encryption
• Experienced in scripting and automation
• Experience in ITIL
• A service and team‑oriented working style

There has never been a better time to work in logistics. Bring your skills to an industry that offers stability and international career growth. We offer a great compensation and medical/dental benefits package, employee discounts, tuition reimbursement, excellent training programs, and a fun, and interesting global work environment. #LI-PD1

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