Network Operations Manager

Kimball Electronics • Indianapolis, OH

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About The Position

The Network Operations Manager is a broadened role within Kimball Electronics Shared Services that reports to the Director of IT Infrastructure and Operations. This role is responsible for providing leadership and technical expertise to the Network Operations Team in administration, management, and support of network hardware and software. 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 5+ years of practical work experience and applicable technical training/certifications.

Requirements

• Minimum of an Associate’s Degree in IT related field and/or 5+ years of practical work experience and applicable technical training/certifications.
• Positive attitude.
• Excellent English communication skills.
• Ability to handle multiple priorities and projects.
• Strong English speaking skills.
• Familiarization with current KEI network environment and processes.
• Acclimate to KEI IT processes, monitoring, and systems.
• Integrate into Network Operations off hours production support rotation.
• Gain familiarity with IT standards and security practices, maintaining and providing feedback for necessary changes.
• Understand existing firewall policy implementation practices and procedures.
• Immediate involvement in global deployment of Cisco ISE.
• Support Azure infrastructure migration strategy and datacenter exit.
• Identify industry trends that KEI could leverage.
• 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.

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

• Provide leadership and technical expertise to the Network Operations Team in administration, management, and support of network hardware and software.
• Support business operations and initiatives as needed.
• 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 and implement scripts, processes, and solutions with a goal of building a Continuous Improvement environment.
• Evaluate needs for tools to better manage, monitor and alert the enterprise network infrastructure.

Benefits

• Flexibility in maintaining a strong work-life balance.

What This Job Offers

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