Network Engineer

Geronimo Power, LLC•Bloomington, MN

About The Position

The Network Engineer will maintain, design and implement networking, firewall, data communications, and telecommunications infrastructures of the firm. The environment consists of tiered multi-core network components interconnected using point-to-point, and VPN connections to energy utilities companies, market data vendors, ISPs, remote sites and users. This position will also be responsible for administrating and maintaining all IT infrastructure hosted at Geronimo Power, operational facilities, and with cloud-based providers. Experience in the renewable energy industry is preferred.

Requirements

3-5 years' experience designing, building and maintaining enterprise network environments
BA/BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent field experience
Minimum 3 years of hands-on network engineering and troubleshooting experience, preferable exposure to market data networks, strong computer science or telecommunications background
Knowledge and experience of core routing and switching, design, configuration, troubleshooting and usage of recommended best practices
Knowledge and experience with Fortinet based network technologies
Knowledge and experience with hyper-scale cloud network environments
Understanding of routing protocols
Understanding of Spanning-tree
Understanding Network Security from an enterprise and SCADA/IOT perspective
Understanding and configuration experience of Aruba and Fortinet Wireless controllers
Network troubleshooting skills, utilizing Wireshark, Netflow, and other tools
Maintaining network monitoring system for real-time and proactive monitoring of all network resources
Proven extensive engineering documentation skills with a focus on details
Manage daily operational processes for all network and telecommunications systems, follow change control process
Maintain the servers and administrative services related to both internal and customer-facing environments.
DHCP and DNS maintenance, operation, and use

Nice To Haves

CCNP or higher certification desirable
Experience in the renewable energy industry is preferred.

Responsibilities

Troubleshoot and analyze all elements of the Network and Telephony deployments including software, communications devices, circuits, routers, and end station devices.
Utilize software and hardware tools to monitor and control performance and status of all network resources, real-time and proactive monitoring of all networks, server and telecommunications systems.
Identify and diagnose problems affecting network performance.
Design, architect, and maintain a secure and highly available LAN/WAN environment to support the mission critical networking requirements of the firm. This includes managing and securing all data and other third-party services.
Enhance and improve the existing network infrastructure.
Define, implement, and oversee the daily operational processes for all network, server and telecommunications systems.
Maintain 24x7x365 coverage and support for network, SCADA and voice systems. Implement change control and documentation processes.
Utilize the deployed network management systems to gather data and produce reports for capacity utilization and performance/scalability planning purposes.