Enterprise Network Design Engineer - Remote

FERGUSON

1d • $65,337 - $114,444 • Remote

About The Position

Ferguson has an exciting opportunity for an Enterprise Network Design Engineer to join Ferguson's Enterprise Network Engineering team. This role supports and enhances a large-scale network environment spanning approximately 1,400 locations across North America. We're seeking a technically strong engineer with hands-on experience in Cisco, SD-WAN, and Meraki technologies who can troubleshoot complex issues, contribute to network design initiatives, and help deliver reliable, secure, and scalable network solutions across the enterprise.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience or more of Data Center, SDWAN, Cloud, Wireless, Load-Balancer, Routing, Firewall, Monitoring technologies
• Highly technical and analytical expertise, with a proven deep background (preferred 5+ years’ IT experience) in technology design, implementation, and delivery.
• Associate’s degree in computer science, information assurance, MIS, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Experience supporting large-scale enterprise network environments.
• Experience contributing to network design, implementation, and optimization initiatives.
• Hands-on experience with Cisco routing and switching, Meraki, SD-WAN, VPN, and wireless technologies.
• Ability to independently troubleshoot and resolve complex network issues.
• Experience documenting network designs, configurations, and operational procedures.
• Experience in network engineering, including large scale design, datacenter (hosted and cloud), and local LAN technologies.
• Must be self-motivated, proactive, creative, and efficient in identifying issues, understanding, and proposing solutions.
• Solid understanding of network protocols.
• Experienced with Cisco and Palo Alto firewalls.
• Track record of acting with integrity, taking pride in work, seeking to excel, being curious and adaptable, and communicating effectively.
• Excellent written, oral, instructional, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office software (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, etc.).
• Improves and/or adapts work methods based on past firsthand experiences, without the benefit of defined procedures, and identifies solutions to problems through interpretive skills and analyses.
• Knowledge of applicable wireless security and privacy practices and compliance with SOX and PCI.
• Project Coordination Skills
• Excellent ability to organize, prioritize, and document work with minimal direction from Manager and deliver within critical dates.
• Lead, mentor and empower individuals and team members.
• Ability to travel up to 5% as needed.
• Establishes operational plans and implements strategic goals. Develops and implements new processes and procedures. Requires independent completion of work where judgment and discretion are required.
• Solves complex problems without defined procedures. Solutions to problems require innovation and ability to assess multi-functional impacts. Is a recognized problem solver.
• Communicates and influences within and outside of function. Typically, responsible for communicating externally (e.g., customers, vendors, etc.).
• Highly proficient communication skills and ability to effectively present to senior and executive leadership.
• Develops high level project plans including tasks (in and outside of the immediate team) and dates.

Nice To Haves

• Technical Certifications are preferred; CCIE (Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert), CCNP (Cisco Certified Network Professional), or CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) are desirable.

Responsibilities

• Collaboratively design/manage all WAN/LAN, WLAN, VPN, and Network Infrastructure.
• Work in tandem with other engineers and architects, the Network Operations Center (NOC), Security Operations Center (SOC), incident responders (when anomalous activity occurs), technology infrastructure and development team members.
• Good troubleshooting of all network infrastructure
• Proactively research, analyze and recommend new technologies to meet changing business needs.
• Improve the infrastructure's uptime, performance and reliability.
• Establishing and implementing standards and policies for all network infrastructure.
• Accountable for optimizing network performance for scalability, reliability and usability.
• Optimally work as part of a team to meet team goals and objectives.
• Develop and maintain documentation related to design/changes in network infrastructure.
• Configures, troubleshoots and scales load balancing platforms, with a focus on F5-based/specific environments
• Design network configuration settings for internal and external systems, including modification of DHCP, VPN, SD-WAN and VLANs.
• Modifying both core and edge routers and switch configurations as needed.
• Supporting team on escalated major incidents technical infrastructure issues and follow through to satisfactory resolution.
• Coordinating installation, repair or maintenance of network hardware equipment.
• Partnering with IT Service Delivery, NOC and Operations Managers to maintain hardware and software inventory to ensure compliance and asset management.
• Accurately documenting all new system implementations and modifications to existing systems (moves, adds, changes).
• Ownership in Disaster Recovery planning, development and implementation for network infrastructure.
• Ensuring compliance with IT Security and Governance processes, such as Change control, SOX and PCI.
• Identify and implement technical and service improvements.
• Ensuring technology documents/certificates such as product registrations, licensing, activations, SSL certificates, maintenance agreements, service contracts, etc. related to technology operations and/or technology services are evaluated, updated and processed.
• Ensuring networks and associated software applications are operational; ensure hardware and software is patched and/or updated; ensure all data circuits are operational in accordance with vendor specifications.
• Maintaining knowledge on network technologies and evaluating new technologies to gain business efficiency.
• Performing other duties or functions as requested by management.

Benefits

• health, dental, vision, paid time off, life insurance and a 401(k) with a company match
• mental health coverage
• gender affirming and family building benefits
• paid parental leave
• associate discounts
• community involvement opportunities

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree