Senior Network Engineer
Overview Client•Richardson, TX
•Hybrid
About The Position
Client is seeking a Network Engineer to architect, deploy, and support IT and operational technology infrastructure for a mission-critical semiconductor manufacturing site in Richardson, Texas. This role will support Cisco-based LAN, WLAN, SD-WAN, and IoT communications while developing secure network solutions that enable manufacturing automation, equipment integration, fault detection, and advanced process control.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience supporting enterprise and industrial network infrastructure in manufacturing or site environments.
- Hands-on experience with Cisco networking, routing, and switching equipment.
- Strong factory-floor networking experience at Level 2/3 OT and experience integrating with Level 3.5/4 IT networks.
- Experience with firewalls, VPNs, VLANs, subnetting, IP addressing, DNS, DHCP, NAT, routing, and switching.
- Experience implementing high availability, redundancy, and Quality of Service protocols.
- Experience with network segmentation, resilience, and disaster recovery strategies.
- Experience with DevOps-oriented network operations, including CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, monitoring pipelines, version control, or automated deployment.
- 2+ years of PowerShell scripting experience.
- 1+ years of experience with a service management platform such as ServiceNow.
- Ability to document network architecture, configurations, automation scripts, and operational procedures.
Nice To Haves
- Advanced degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- Cisco Certified Network Associate certification or equivalent.
- Experience with Cisco, Arista, Dell, Palo Alto, or other multi-vendor network environments.
- Experience with Tanium, Chef, network patching, or security-hardening practices.
- Experience with Rubrik, Veeam, Commvault, Zerto, or similar data protection and recovery platforms.
- Knowledge of IT/OT convergence, industrial protocols, SCADA systems, MES platforms, and manufacturing equipment integration.
- Experience supporting Windows-based manufacturing computers and servers.
- Knowledge of industrial network architectures, DMZs, secure remote access, layered network models, and redundant topologies.
- Semiconductor manufacturing infrastructure experience.
Responsibilities
- Provide operational support for physical and virtual manufacturing and site network infrastructure.
- Support network communications ranging from the corporate SD-WAN environment through factory equipment, tools, sensors, and IoT devices.
- Design, develop, and deploy Special Use Networks to segment and isolate mission-critical manufacturing operations from the corporate network.
- Support Cisco-based LAN, WLAN, routing, switching, firewall, and network monitoring technologies.
- Migrate the site from a global authentication model to a site-level domain controller authentication model.
- Partner with process, equipment, manufacturing, and factory systems engineering teams to enable equipment integration and automation.
- Troubleshoot network performance and communication issues across IT and OT architecture layers.
- Implement switches, firewalls, wireless infrastructure, monitoring tools, and other network technologies.
- Support network resilience, redundancy, disaster recovery, high availability, and Quality of Service.
- Collaborate with corporate IT and security teams to ensure compliance with cybersecurity standards.
- Monitor network health, capacity, availability, and performance.
- Maintain network topology diagrams, configuration records, automation scripts, and change logs.
Benefits
- MEC (Minimum Essential Coverage) plan that encompasses Medical, Vision, Dental, 401K, and EAP (Employee Assistance Program) services.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
