Engineer, Network

Darling Ingredients • Irving, TX

15d • Onsite

About The Position

Darling Ingredients repurposes and recycles materials from the animal agriculture and food industries - transforming them into essential ingredients that do everything from feeding animals to fertilizing crops to fueling planes and nourishing people. We're the number one publicly traded company of our kind, operating a global family of brands and businesses that span more than 260 facilities in over 15 countries. Our unique scale allows us to make entire industries less wasteful and more sustainable, helping move the world toward a more circular economy. Darling Ingredients offers full time employees a full suite of benefits including but not limited to the following: 401(k), Health, Dental and Vision Insurance, and Paid Time Off. The Network Engineer is responsible in providing expert level network troubleshooting and for creating network standards, documenting network environments, and converting business requirements to technical specifications/designs. This position will validate new network solutions through proof of concepts and pilots.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or related discipline or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in a Network Engineering role in enterprise environment with geographically dispersed locations.
• 8+ years of specific experience with Cisco Meraki switch/WIFI, Palo Alto NGFW, Infoblox DDI, Cisco ASA, ISR, ASR, Catalyst/Nexus switches, SDWAN and SASE
• Mature understanding of EIGRP, BGP, OSPF, MPLS, VPN, Ethernet, DSL, DMVPN, QoS, COS, SNMP, VoIP, VLANS, Subnetting, Supernetting, Trunking, Virtual Networking, IPS, WLAN, WAN acceleration, URL filtering, NetFlow, network monitoring systems, cloud service providers such as MS Azure and OCI.
• Extensive experience with supporting and troubleshooting global networks which includes multi-site, high-availability, load-balanced infrastructure solutions (active/active).
• Cisco CCNP or related industry certification required

Nice To Haves

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong organization and planning skills.
• Strong interpersonal / relationship management skills.
• Work well with others in a team environment.
• Self-motivated; self-starter.

Responsibilities

• Researches new technology advancements and conduct evaluations focused on optimizing and improving network configuration, performance, capacity, availability, and operational reliability
• Plans, designs, implements and documents all network related projects
• Defines and maintains technology standards
• Establishes and maintains backup and version-control of network configurations
• Troubleshoots network designs and make recommendations for system fixes and enhancements
• Makes recommendations for leveraging network installations and reducing operational costs
• Partners with cross-functional peers from both infrastructure and application teams
• Manages hardware/software vendors, service providers and 3rd party partners
• Lead network related work for Mergers and Acquisitions
• Provides final tier of support for all networking issues including routing, switching, WIFI, and firewall.
• Other duties as assigned

Benefits

• 401(k)
• Health, Dental and Vision Insurance
• Paid Time Off

What This Job Offers

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