Network​/Firewall Engineer

We are offering full-time positions to highly-motivated and dedicated Network Engineers at our company headquarters in San Antonio. Labatt Food Service is a $1.8B company that delivers to food‑away‑from‑home customers (restaurants, schools, military bases, and convenience stores) throughout Texas and New Mexico. We have grown from just 8 employees in the ‘80s to over 1,800 today. Our mission is to be “Home of the Best”: best in people, products, and services.

Our goal is to provide the highest quality products at the most appropriate prices so that our customers can have a line out their door. The company receives and delivers hundreds of thousands of cases a day and travels over 8 million miles a year. Its internally‑written software systems require highly‑available wireless and wired connectivity of a 5‑9s wide‑area network (WAN) and composite LANs.

Network Engineers are the committed, hardworking individuals who build out the network backbone and telecommunications infrastructure needed for Labatt to deliver flawless data service to over 7,000 electronic end‑points in our 5 distribution centers and 5 satellite offices. Our philosophy of investing in technological innovation has led us to be pioneers in creating an industry‑leading network that interoperates intricately with our internal cloud to support an ever‑growing suite of internally‑written software systems that propel our business forward.

• Program routers, switches, load balancers, and access points across an inventory of Cisco, Juniper, Extricom, F5, and VMware devices
• Flawlessly execute multi‑year device replacement plans
• Learn about new wireless technologies and monitoring and administrative protocols
• Adopt the profession’s ever‑evolving best practices
• Manage our telecommunications providers to achieve continuously improved performance and redundancy
• Organize plans for comprehensive active‑active network redundancy
• Architect resiliency employing modern “chaos” techniques

Network Engineers must have a bachelor’s degree at minimum, and generally also have acquired a number of standard networking certifications (CCNA, CompTIA Network+, etc.). Most importantly, architects at Labatt must demonstrate the discipline to put in the work to meet deadlines, eagerness to learn and improve at the craft, and a strong desire to deliver a truly excellent service to our thousands of internal and external users.