Network Administrator

Kimball Electronics • Jasper, IN

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About The Position

The Network Administrator is a broadened role within Kimball Electronics Shared Services that reports to the Director of IT Infrastructure and Operations. This role will be located in Asia. This role is responsible for administration, management, and level II support of network infrastructure systems globally. We are a global company with a wide variety of business needs that require IT infrastructure support. We value our environment of mutual trust, personal integrity and accountability, cooperation, sense of family and good humor. We cultivate a style of empowerment, individual initiative and teamwork. We believe that candidates will enjoy our flexibility in maintaining a strong work-life balance. To be successful, the candidate must possess a positive attitude, excellent English communication skills, ability to handle multiple priorities and projects in order to effectively transform business needs into technical solutions. Applicants must have strong English speaking skills and need to possess a minimum of an Associate’s Degree in IT related field and/or 3+ years of practical work experience and applicable technical training/certifications.

Requirements

• Applicants must have strong English speaking skills
• Associate’s Degree in IT related field and/or 3+ years of practical work experience and applicable technical training/certifications

Nice To Haves

• TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, BGP
• Cisco Catalyst & Nexus Switches
• Cisco Wireless Access Points and Controllers
• Network Security Fundamentals
• Grafana Dashboards
• Palo Alto and Fortiweb Firewalls
• Public Cloud networking
• Global Protect VPN
• Cybersecurity best practices
• Cisco ISE

Responsibilities

• Learn KEI Guiding Principles, philosophies, and cultural attributes
• Develop technical relationships with key IT contacts
• Build and maintain business relationships with Business Unit contacts
• Familiarization with current KEI network environment and processes
• Jumpstart and acclimate into ongoing Network Operations project work
• Acclimate to KEI IT processes, monitoring, and systems
• Integrate into Network Operations off hours production support rotation
• Support business operations and initiatives as needed
• Gain familiarity with IT standards and security practices, maintaining and providing feedback for necessary changes
• Understand existing firewall policy implementation practices and procedures
• Support growth and discovery in public cloud infrastructure
• Identify opportunities to improve or automate existing KEI processes and systems
• Lead projects for Network Operations team
• Expand existing documentation of processes
• Support Azure infrastructure migration strategy
• Identify industry trends that KEI could leverage
• Support and implement scripts, processes, and solutions with a goal of building a Continuous Improvement environment
• Expanded familiarity with Network environment and opportunities for improvement to align with KEI business needs including revision of network segmentation strategy and OT network support

What This Job Offers

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