Job Summary:

As part of the Network Engineering team within IGS Energy’s Infrastructure and Operations department, the Network Engineer owns a pivotal role in ensuring the stability, security, quality, and scalability of IGS Energy’s hybrid IT network infrastructure. As a subject matter expert, the Network Engineer will advise and collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, implement, maintain, and troubleshoot network solutions that support teams and the organization’s operational and strategic objectives.

This a Remote Regional position, the ideal candidate will reside within the Central Ohio area.

Primary Responsibilities:

Network Design and Implementation:

• Plan, design, and implement complex network solutions to meet IGS Energy’s requirements, including remote branches, on-premises data centers, and cloud-based resources.

• Evaluate and recommend network hardware and software solutions.

Network Security:

• Implement and maintain network security measures to safeguard data, applications, and infrastructure.

• Monitor network traffic for security threats and response to incidents promptly.

Network Optimization:

• Continuously optimize network for performance and capacity to ensure high availability and reliability.

• Identify and resolve network bottlenecks and performance issues.

Troubleshooting and Support:

• Provide multi-level support for network related issues, ensuring timely resolution.

• Collaborate with other IT teams to diagnose and resolve complex network problems.

Documentation:

• Maintain comprehensive network documentation, including network diagrams, configurations, and standard operating processes.

Compliance and Best Practice:

• Ensure network infrastructure complies with industry best practices and relevant regulatory requirements.

• Stay current with emerging network technologies and recommend improvements accordingly.

Vendor Management:

• Collaborate with vendors and service providers to procure and manage network related services and equipment.

• IT experience working in an enterprise environment and expertise with firewalls, WAFs, VPNs, switches, routers (physical and virtual), and cloud-networks.

• Design and implementation experience with LAN, WAN, WLAN, and VPN.

• Network capacity planning and management of DHCP, DNS, IPAM, ITAM, logging and monitoring platforms.

• Experienced with load balancers, Azure ExpressRoutes, and Edge/WAN management.

• Working knowledge with IP routing protocols such as BPG and OSPF.

• Experience with network automation and infrastructure-as-code / scripting languages such as Terraform and Ansible.

• Familiar with cloud-hosted private Git repos such as Azure Repos and pull requests.

• Practical knowledge of modern encryption protocols, decryption, and inline inspection.

• Leverage user-id based policy management and additional NextGen firewall functions.

• Onboarding device support via policy managed platforms to grant varying levels of access, authentications, and 802.1x compliance.

Other Roles and Responsibilities

• Ensure uninterrupted network and security services supporting all IGS technology infrastructure. 

• Implement updates, patches, and upgrades across various network hardhard

• Manage layer 1 connectivity as appropriate

• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned. 

Required Skills:

• Exceptional organizational skills, follow through, and multitasking abilities.   

• Able to drive results with a sense of urgency relative to the end user.   

• Decisiveness, good judgment, analytical/math aptitude, and problem-solving skills to act with authority and take risks in an environment with little direction from others.   

• Excellent communicator with strong organizational savvy and leadership skills necessary to interface with and influence all levels of organization.  

• Ability to work in a fast paced and dynamic environment.

• Ability to think strategically bit willingness to handle the mechanics of technology services required by the business