Sr. Network Administrator - AMRS Region

Portfolio Business: Huber Engineered Materials 

J.M. Huber Corporation is one of the largest privately held, family-owned companies in the United States. Established in 1883, we are a diversified, global supplier of specialty and commodity chemicals, hydrocolloid solutions, engineered wood products and natural resources to customers spanning a wide variety of industries. With approximately $3 billion in sales and 4,000 employees worldwide, we have a material presence in more than 20 countries.

Position Summary

The Senior Network Administrator, Americas Region will ensure network availability, scalability to individual requirements, contribute to Huber´s network strategy, consult and support IT teams as well as business units around all network related initiatives and projects. This role will act as a network technology representative in all portfolio projects, guiding stakeholders to design their requirements in line with global technology strategy.

 

The Senior Network Administrator will also represent the technology aspects by working closely with the engineering teams, enterprise networking team and ensure that projects and initiatives align with network standards and strategies. This role will also be part of Huber´s 2nd Level Support and escalation process, with focus on network technologies.

Principal Duties & Responsibilities

This role focuses on world-class network service delivery, to allow Huber to leverage latest technologies, as these align with industry best practices. It enables Huber to improve and maintain a high available network infrastructure, focusing on modern manufacturing.

 

Key Duties & Responsibilities:

- Network lifecycle management of Huber Standard equipment:

• Maintain valid Service Contracts on all equipment.
• Plan and process replacements according to manufacturers/Huber's life cycle announcements.

- Ongoing demand analysis and network improvement initiatives.

- Optimization, Management and Troubleshooting:

• LAN (Cisco and Cisco Meraki)
• Wireless LAN (Cisco and Cisco Meraki)
• Firewalls (Fortinet)
• Data connections (MPLS, VPN, SD-WAN)

- Plan, present and process network infrastructure initiatives.

- Maintaining and implementation of new network standards and processes.

- Management of medium-sized local network projects.

- Documentation of changes, architecture, and problems.

- Ensuring network availability.

- Responsible for the availability of Huber´s network infrastructure, contribution on solution design as well as its adherence:

• Contribute to the definition and documentation of all policies and procedures, standards, design, and business rules related to network technologies.
• Avoid technical debt by developing reusable and scalable solutions.
• Improve and maintain performance, security, reliability, operations, technology, and interoperability requirements to produce high level and scalable design deliverables.
• Contribute to enterprise network technical strategy and define and document solution architecture(s) including technical designs and diagrams.
• Design and deploy dynamically scalable and highly available services using Huber´s network standards, to enable Huber´s cloud strategy.
• Participate in every aspect of the development and operational areas and design cloud network connectivity architecture.
• Create conceptual, logical, and physical design for network solutions for infrastructure and platforms.
• Research, analyze, recommend, and select technical approaches for solving difficult and challenging development and integration problems.

Specialized/Technical Knowledge or Required Skills

• Bachelor’s degree within Information Technology field of study, or equivalent work experience
• Production level experience migrating and deploying current Huber standard solutions.
• Deep product knowledge and understanding of Meraki/Cisco product features including Disaster Recovery, Internet of Things, Monitoring, and remote Management.
• Experience with performance analysis, troubleshooting and remediation techniques.
• 5+ years of experience with Meraki/Cisco technologies and services such as switching and routing, firewall management, TCP/IP networking, LAN/Wireless LAN
• 3+ years of experience architecting and developing complex high availability network designs.
• Exceptional problem-solving and crisis management skills and ability to work independently/within a team.
• Able to communicate clearly and convey necessary information.
• Able to constructively work under stress and pressure when faced with high workloads and deadlines.
• Able to independently identify challenges and demonstrate app