Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Able to lift 40 lbs. without assistance, Office

Job Description

How will you make an impact?

As a member of Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do exciting work! Join a team that values performance, quality and innovation. As part of a successful, growing global organization you will be encouraged to perform at your best! With revenues of more than $40 billion and the largest investment in RD in the industry, we give our people the resources and chances to create meaningful contributions to the world.

This is a Sr. Network Engineering position with focus on SD WAN, firewall and wireless support. The Network Engineer will demonstrate in-depth knowledge of technical management and operational practices to develop the technical strategy used to improve the network globally. The candidate will collaborate with technical SMEs, architecture, and vendors to manage, maintain and operate the company network. The role will support in developing diagnostic and troubleshooting scripts, and validate new solutions required to support our ecosystems of manufacturing and research locations worldwide.

This role will be a key part of a multifunctional team that designs, supports, secures, and maintains the underlying network infrastructure.

What will you do?

Our global network operation center is ensuring that all outages, which are impacting our customers are resolved in a timely manner

We aim to fulfill our customer's requests according to our set of SLAs

We manage our network changes through a strict ITIL based process

We monitor network health, including metrics collection, visualization, and alerting

We track network utilization over time to assist capacity management models

We own the network monitoring settings, maintenance and network incident management SOPs

We self-serve problem management support for network root cause analysis, own and drive problem investigations, trend analysis

We proactively carry out network vulnerability and patch management, software upgrades

Be part of the team that supports, and improves a global network environment that includes routers, switches, firewalls, wireless controllers and load balancers.

Find opportunities to improve the corporate network by looking at the cause of the problems

Collaborate with the network SMES on optimization initiatives

Be responsible for having all aspects of the network environment documented.

Deliver mentorship and direction to lower level engineers and peer support groups

End to end coordination with our vendors and providers for issue resolutions

Handling the Service Now work queue to address customer requests within the established service level agreements.

Drive quality into the metrics we report, including measurement of issues, network capacity, vendor equipment/failures analysis and network performance, as well as continual assessment of the quality and effectiveness of network monitoring and alerting.

Responsible for documenting system maintenance, enhancements and performance for effective network operations and management

Call out complex topics and requests to senior engineers or SMEs

Find opportunities for automation and own these initiatives till completion in collaboration with respective SMEs and programmers

Guide our customers and colleagues on Global Network engagement and ITIL processes

Participate in technology trainings provided by SMEs or vendors

How will you get there?

BA/BS education and/or work experience in network engineering operations is preferred

8-10 years of demonstrated ability in network engineering, operations

Deep experience with Cisco and Arista or Fortinet or F5 products and services

Automation related programming skills (Python or similar) is a nice to have

Good understanding of Networking and Security standards, practices and methods.

Solid grasp of SD-WAN management troubleshooting is an advantage

Understanding and experience of cloud computing specifically relating to networks, including AWS and/or Azure is an advantage

Tool Technology Skills

Telco: WAN, LAN, Wireless,

OSS/BSS: Service Now, Jira

Network Switching, Routing, Secrurity, Cloud

Product: Cisco, Silver Peak SDWAN, Talari, Bluecat, RiverBed, Arista, Clearpass, OperGear, Meraki, AWS, Azure, Fortinet, F5,

Automation: Python, API, Service Orchestration

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

CCIE Preferred

Excellent verbal and written communication skills, good customer service skills, and a demonstrable ability to work with various teams.

Troubleshooting skills

Be a self-motivated, highly ethical individual with a demonstrated ability to work as independently as well as with a team.

Be eager to learn new technologies and develop your skills

Develop relationships with our clients, engineering, and peer management teams, and effectively navigate across the organization

Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.