Senior Network Engineer

If you are currently an employee of Herc Rentals, please apply using this link: Herc Employee Career Portal

 

Founded in 1965, Herc Rentals is one of the leading equipment rental suppliers in North America with 2024 pro forma total revenues reaching approximately $5.1 billion. Herc Rentals’ parent company, known as Herc Holdings Inc., listed on the New York Stock Exchange on July 1, 2016, under the symbol “HRI.” Herc Rentals serves customers through approximately 612 locations and has about 9,900 employees in North America as of September 30, 2025.

 

Job Purpose

The Senior Network Engineer is a technical position responsible for performing various work functions in support of the Herc Rentals enterprise network.  This position will require in-depth technical knowledge to facilitate the design, install and management of enterprise networking solutions and associated components.  This will include the high-level input on system architecture and design changes, analysis and resolution of system hardware, software, and networking issues. 

Along with this knowledge, it is imperative that the incumbent understands Herc Rental’s business goals and management’s objectives and priorities.  The incumbent collaborates to develop solutions and processes for supporting the large and diverse user community’s needs within the constraints of the business requirements and Infrastructure Services Portfolio of offerings.

What you will do...

• Responsible for configuration, implementation, and support for network installations as necessary. 
• Provide network support and troubleshooting network solutions for an enterprise network. 
• Work with customers, vendors, and technical teams to prospect and develop network design, installation, and support opportunities.
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation as it relates to network technologies, network topology, network equipment, and configuration(s).
• Ability to document standards, methods and produce drawings of environments.
• Analyze system reports, error logs and activity and initiate system enhancements as needed.
• Provide Engineering level support for incident and problem management.
• Oversee Managed Services to ensure network incidents and problems are appropriately resolved or escalated within SLA. 
• Interact with customers and establish customer relationships to gather and analyze customer needs, assess available resources, and determine optimal solutions.   
• Develop project plans incorporating resource estimates for project tasks &manage projects as assigned.   
• Collaborate with senior members of the enterprise infrastructure teams.  
• Advise management on technology roadmaps, evaluate vendor products, & make recommendations on product/service selection & current system upgrades.

Requirements

• BA/BS University degree or similar experience
• Cisco CCNP certification
• Participate in after-hours upgrades, troubleshooting, and/or on-call availability
• Maintaining an established work schedule and providing on-call assistance, including nights,weekends, and/or holidays.
• Train, educate and mentor staff, as necessary
• Experience with large-scale Cisco enterprise networking solutions including design,implementation, and support.
• 5+ years’ experience installing, upgrading, and maintaining Cisco ISR routers, switches,firewalls, and wireless access points.
• Experience maintaining network performance through network monitoring and analysis, QoSservice implementation, and performance tuning; troubleshooting network problemsComprehensive understanding of network protocols such as BGP, OSPF, & EIGRP.
• Experience with LAN hardware including patch panels, Fiber Optic, Cat5e and Cat 6 wiring
• Solid understanding of IP routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP) Cisco ASA, Routing,Switching, QoS, Meraki WAP, SolarWinds Monitoring TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, VPN, DMVPN,SDWAN
• A strong working knowledge of technologies surrounding a network infrastructure
• Experience supporting IP Telephony, Linux, Microsoft Server, Windows, and SolarWindsmonitoring tools
• Knowledge of carrier services and interfaces
• Working knowledge of Cisco UCS and VMware virtual environments

Skills

• Provide timely and accurate project status updates to customer contacts and management.
• Ability to handle a growing, fast paced environment
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both verbally and with written documentation
• Ability to a