*PLEASE NOTE that If you DO NOT live in the Houston, TX Metro, PLEASE DO NOT apply for this position; thank you...*
**Due to exposure to sensitive/privileged company data, this position requires US Permanent Resident (Green Card), or US Citizen work status**
***This position does allow remote/WFH work, 2 days a week. This position is located in the Houston, Texas Metro area, with a preference location in North Houston, as company/HQ for IT is near Bush Intercontinental Airport, TX (North Houston). Therefore, this person must live in the Houston, TX Metro area***
IS&T is helping the Mgr of Global Networks for a global Maritime Energy firm find a skilled Network Engineer. This is a key hands on technical position, as well as technical lead/mentor opportunity/role.
Advanced Skills/understanding in the following:
- Firewalls and Routers – Cisco (ASR, ISR), Palo Alto (VPN, ACLs, ACI (next gen), BGP, OSPF
- Switching – Cisco Catalyst, port config, STP, LACP LAGP
- SD-WAN - Palo Alto preferred
- ACI (understanding and skills, preferred, but not required)
- NAC - ISE, Clearpass, etc.
- Wireless: Aruba, Extreme Networks, etc.
- Network Monitoring: Solarwinds or similar
- Cloud Networking: AWS and/or Azure
- Load Balancer - NetScaler, F5 ADCC, VPX, A10
- Open DNS, Hybrid Environment, Automation (Ansible)
- Basic Understanding of the following:
- Microsoft Azure AD, DNS, DHCP, Office 365 Suite
- Virtualization: VMware, vSphere, VDI
Preferred but not required: Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)
Notes from a detailed Teams meeting with the hiring authority, the Global Network Manager:
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“I now lead a global team of 5 Network Engineers, of varying levels of experience. I am seeking a Network Engineer to join our team. This Network Eng must have the ability to plan, design, engineer, and deploy network solutions.”
“This is a Project Based & Ops Network Engineer; work ratio is 50% Ops/50% projects. The Projects will be enterprise in scope, supporting a global network of ~180 global locations, and growing….”
"The highest profile project is implementing SD-WAN solution for our global network. Palo Alto Prisma ION. This Network Eng will contribute ol lead, depending on experience. Design, engineer; with my input and support, of course - but I'd like this kind of project to excite this Network Engineer."
"I foresee Palo SD WAN being a 2 -3 year project; a planned global deployment."
"Another project example: design and engineer and deploy Aruba NAC solution"
“another Project example: taking lead on doing a technical assessment, then execute activities for M&A migration of a newly acquired company, with 50 locations….”
“another example - assess our BGP and OSPF currently in place, decide what is working, what is not; and bring improvements, and standardization to BGP and OSPF routing config…
“another example: Our data centers are not up to current generally accepted standards. Do health check/analysis and design upgrade of DC’s. We have 3 DC's located on east coast, and in Asia.”
“I need someone who is engaged, reliable, and has natural ability & inclination to be a solid contributor and/or lead on the team.
There is opportunity for both...
"The reason for the opening is a recent Network Engineer departed us, who on paper looked like a rock star – held a CCIE certification, but did not have the real world experience or critical thinking skills to design and implement network solutions, configurations, direct installations; and define, document and enforce network infrastructure standards. Added to this, he was not showing up for meetings, calls, etc.”
"I want someone who is reliable, and cares about their work product. The is the hole I am seeking to fill on the team."
"Ideally, I’d like this person to be someone who wants to continuously update job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintains a personal network/lab; and/or participants in professional organizations. Their head’s in the game, so to speak…"
This Network Eng will participate in an on-call rotation. On call consists of 1 week, every other month (every 8 weeks). May also receive a call from Junior staff when not on-call for escalation purposes. As a global company, the coverage required by Houston staff is minimal. Realistically, this will be a couple hours in the evening (CST) until APAC takes over, during the week. Then Friday after 5 PM, through Sunday evening until APAC takes over. Singapore is 12 – 13 hours ahead of us, depending on daylight savings time.
Lastly – this Network Eng will provide mentorship to junior member/s of the team.
Job Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree plus 7 years of experience, or 10 or more years of experience that is directly related to the job responsibilities.
- Certifications are a plus, but NOT required (CCNA, Network+, etc.).
- Ability to demonstrate troubleshooting skills, think analytically while working in a fast-paced environment and the flexibility to work with a wide range of technologies.
- Must multi-task and juggle multiple priorities while ensuring successful completion of all deliverables.
- Forward thinker who designs for current business needs as well as plans for scalability and longer-term solutions.
- Excellent written skills and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to travel globally, including Singapore/SE Asia, China, Eastern Europe, West Europe, etc. This would be infrequent; but is possible.
Interview process:
Initial Teams call with me, then a team call/interview with key team members; then a final interview with VP of Infrastructure. If this person makes it to final interview; it is likely get the offer.
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