Network Engineer

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020 Information Technology Schaumburg, IL, US

30+ days ago Requisition

Do you want to build, configure, and deploy a multi-platform infrastructure?

Do you have a passion for being a resource and leader to others?

Are you great at collaborating with team members but still able to independently make problem solving decisions?

Do you want to work for a company that was named a winner of 2020 & 2021 Chicago's Best & Brightest Companies To Work For?

Does working in a highly-engaged organization, one that’s committed to growth, collaboration and innovation interest you?

The Network Engineer will be responsible for designing, building, configuring, and deploying a broad range of critical multi-platform IT infrastructure, involving networking, storage, backup/recovery, security and virtualization technologies. They will be responsible for providing operational support and ongoing improvement of our IT infrastructure inclusive of related incident/ problem management implementation of changes, monitoring, and patch/vulnerability management. The position includes serving as a technical subject matter expert to other functional teams, and will lead the technical solution delivery of infrastructure related projects/improvements.

• Partner with application developers, and other technical peers to create scalable multi-platform infrastructure solutions with understanding of functional dependencies and business impact.
• Coordinate and execute projects associated with the design, installation, configuration and deployment of multi-platform systems (cloud and on-premise), virtualization, firewall/VPN, backup/recovery, storage, and wifi technologies.
• Contribute to and support disaster recovery activities and planning, inclusive of testing and documenting recovery scripts and procedures.
• Develop and administer backup systems to recover data.
• Maintain servers’ OS updates and current patches.
• Maintain network security in accordance with established protocols.
• Perform daily provisioning configuration changes.
• Monitor data center operations and identify potential issues, provide operational guidance and take actions to correct issues.
• Participate in and represent IT Operations in the Change Management process.
• Participate in network capacity measurement and planning, assist with detailed technical planning for future initiatives.
• Resolve incidents escalated from the Service Desk.
• Provide evaluation of new systems technologies.
• Ability to diagnose and resolve complex problems involving servers, network infrastructure, storage, switches, backup/recovery and disaster recovery.
• Adding, removing and changing server infrastructure as necessary to meet the demands of the business.
• Maintain security and monitoring tools to provide first line of security configurations and proactive security expertise for our network.
• Learn new IT platform technologies and features as needed to meet changing business requirements.
• Assist other team members with hardware upgrades, configuration changes, and maintenance as needed.
• Participate in rotating on-call after hour/weekend operations support coverage

• Demonstrated engineering experience with virtualization (e.g VMware), backup/recovery/business continuity, patch/vulnerability management, and cloud-based platform management technologies and operational duties in a production setting.
• Good understanding of storage network environments to include topology as well as performance characteristics.
• Experience with core system administration (e.g. patch management, OS layer, security, backup, restore, monitoring, and…