Senior Network Engineer

Job Description

Ingram Content Group (ICG) is hiring for a Sr Network Engineer for our Infrastructure Team in LaVergne, TN. This position is hybrid and will require a minimum of 3 days at Ingram Headquarters.

Senior Systems Network Engineer resolves escalated service issues, coaches other engineers to resolutions, engineers and implements complex projects, and maintains and oversees assigned technology pillars. 

Want to help explore and build new ways to deliver content to the world?  

At Ingram, our Technology team is blazing a trail by providing content distribution services to thousands of publishers with key initiatives around business intelligence, machine learning, continuous integration and omnichannel.  We support diverse people and technology that highlights innovation through SaaS platforms, metadata, cloud, and containerization.   Our teams are agile, and emphasize authenticity, creativity, and transparency upon a fact-based foundation.  

The world is reading, and it is our goal to connect as many people as possible to the content they want in the simplest ways.  If you are an IT professional who strives to deliver results through collaborative partnerships, understanding what drives business, and enjoys working in a connected culture, we can’t wait to meet you!  

The ideal candidate will have the following minimum qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field or directly related year for year experience 
• 5+ years’ experience as a system engineer or equivalent role required  

We have a preference for: 

• Experience designing, deploying, and supporting network routers and switches, including dynamic routing, overlays, and all layer 2/3 functionality  
• Experience designing, deploying, and supporting security appliances, such as traditional and next-gen firewalls, along with standalone or integrated IDS/IPS and SD-WAN technologies · 
• Experience designing, deploying, and supporting either hardware or software load balancers, such as F5, NetScaler, HAProxy, or Nginx  

 The Sr Systems (Network) Engineer key responsibilities are: 

• Troubleshoots problems related to physical and virtual infrastructure performance and resolve trouble tickets as assigned 
• Manages, participates, or performs tasks related to specific projects to implement new technology as assigned 
• Designs, builds, maintains and monitors systems and platforms ensuring they consistently exceed defined goals for availability, capacity, efficiency, scalability, and performance 
• Designs, builds, implements, and maintains security, redundancy, backup, and logging strategies 
• Evaluates, maintains, and modifies established ‘best practices’ for infrastructure maintenance and asset management 
• Creates and maintains custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on manual tasks 
• Creates and maintains consistent documentation for system configurations, installation and administration procedures 
• Provides detailed specifications for proposed solutions including materials, resources, and timelines 
• Provides clear goals for all areas of a project and develop steps to oversee timely execution and successful implementation 
• Implements and utilizes configuration automation tools such as Puppet, Ansible, Chef, and SaltStack 
• Interacts regularly with architects to identify, build, and implement automation to drive greater efficiencies and standards 

Additional Information

Perks/Benefits:

• A highly competitive compensation package with generous benefits beginning first day of employment for Medical/Prescription Drug plans, HSA, Vision, Dental and Health Care FSA.
  • 15 vacation days & 12 sick days accrued annually and 3 personal days
  • 401K match, Life and AD&D, Employee Assistant programs, Group Legal, & more
  • Wellness program with access to onsite gym and basketball court for associates
• Avid reader?
  • Free card registration at the Nashville Public Library
  • Discounted offers to self-publish with IngramSpark®!
• Encouraged continued education with our tuition reimbursement program
• Financial and in-kind opportunities to engage with non-profits in your community
  • Company match program for United Way donations
  • Volunteer opportunities and in-kind drives for non-profits throughout the year
• Take breaks or brainstorm in our game room with ping pong & foosball
• Casual Dress Code

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