Network Engineer

Your Title : Network Engineer (m / f / d)

Job Location : Ulm, Germany (onsite)

Our Department : Corporate

Job Summary

This is an exciting opportunity to be member of Trimble's global, corporate networking team. Responsible for assisting with network design, implementation and operation of the company’s internal world-wide communications systems, including local area networks (LANs), wide area networks (WANs) and wireless networking.

Act as network lead for their designated geographical region which includes : planning, designing, and implementing networked systems.

The candidate will be involved in troubleshooting and maintaining both in-house and vendor networks connections including configurations, supporting / troubleshooting network problems, and coordinating with vendors for installation of such items as direct internet access (DIA) circuits, MPLS circuits as well as configuring routers, switches, wireless access points and other devices or technologies as required.

Provides training and assists with proposal writing. Responsible for project planning, cost analysis, and vendor comparisons.

Key Responsibilities :

Design and implement wireless networking.

Architect / design LAN / WAN solutions for a designated geographic region.

Operational support and incident resolution.

Innovate ways to scale with automation and operational improvements

Work with a team to design, implement and support Trimble's network infrastructure at its data centers and global sites

Develop and maintain standard configurations, procedures and guidelines for installing and operating voice & data services

Participate in capacity planning and technology reviews with the Network Infrastructure team

Maintain the network infrastructure to high levels of availability with basic and expedited support to resolve networking related issues

Interface with ISP and carriers to install / commission / test new WAN / Internet circuits at remote sites, as well as interface with vendors to identify hardware & software requirements to meet business requirements

Design, manage and maintain wireless networks

Occasional on-call duties

Occasional travel

Skills & Experience Required : (Desired / Preferred skills are denoted)

Proven competence in the development, implementation and maintenance of complex network systems with 10+ years’ experience in a networking enterprise environment.

Advanced Skills in three of the following areas :

Routing

Switching

Firewall

WiFi

3-5 years wireless network design experience. Experience in Aerohive / Extreme greatly preferred.

Cloud networking

BS or BA degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or equivalent education, training or work experience.

Must have excellent written and verbal English and German skills.

Team player

Willingness to learn and continue education.

Experience with global enterprise networks is greatly preferred.

Cisco certifications :

Cisco CCNP, CCNP Routing and Switching or CCNP Wireless preferred

CCIE preferred

Other industry certifications / training is greatly desired (examples, CEH, CISSP, MCP, etc)

Experience with several of the following technologies in design / implement / troubleshooting capacity is essential :

LAN : Switching - Cisco IOS / Nexus OS, VLANs, STP / RSTP, CoS, QoS, Ether-channel / Trunking,etc

Experience with Cisco routers and switches is required, experience with Dell and HP switches desired.

Routing : BGP, EIGRP, HSRP or VRRP, PBR, etc.

WAN : MPLS, MetroEthernet, etc.

VPN Solutions : IOS / ASA based L2L and Client access VPN

DMVPN experience is greatly preferred.

Network Management and WAN Optimization : Load balancing / Acceleration experience desired. Working knowledge of Silver Peak SD-WAN highly solutions desired

Authentication solutions including Cisco ACS / RADIUS / TACACS / Certificates(PKI) greatly desired

Network troubleshooting using packet capture and analysis using tools such as Wireshark

Experience with Solarwinds monitoring Solutions; Administration experience with SolarWinds monitoring solutions is greatly preferred.

Proven experience in setting up new site networks, including racking, installing, configuring LAN / WAN / VoIP hardware / circuits, testing / troubleshooting network connectivity / performance and documentation

Network security experience desired.

Solid knowledge of public Cloud infrastructure such as Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services

Extensive experience with Ansible and / or Python automating networking devices - Prefered

Familiarity with source control tools such as Git for working in a collaborative environment - Prefered

Are you the candidate we are looking for? Don’t hesitate to apply. We are looking forward to your application.

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