Network Engineer

Network Engineer

Join Stepan as a Network Engineer, where you'll play a critical role in maintaining and enhancing our enterprise network infrastructure. This position offers the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies and collaborate across infrastructure, security, and operations teams to ensure secure, high-performing connectivity across our global footprint. If you're passionate about network architecture, cybersecurity, and continuous improvement, we invite you to bring your expertise to a company committed to innovation and excellence.

Responsibilities:

• Maintaining company networks including VPNs, routers, firewalls and other physical hardware
• Create and maintain documentation of all network components
• Installing and configuring network equipment
• Install, configure and maintaining firewalls to keep data and communications protected
• Monitoring of all network components and traffic to improve network performance
• Troubleshooting, resolving, and communicating networking issues to other employees and management
• Working with the infrastructure team on disaster recovery procedures and tests
• Maintaining current knowledge and understanding of security and networking best practices to offer the best solutions and protection to company systems
• Work with 3rd party providers, system integrators and contractors to make appropriate network changes Perform wireless surveys and predictive analysis using Ekahau
• Participate in network upgrade projects including Fiber, UPS, point to point, switch, AP and all other network equipment/software
• Utilize Aruba central, Panorama, Velocloud Orchestrator, Paloalto management software to manage networks
• Work with the infrastructure and security teams to analyze potential cyber security attacks
• Work with OT/PCN team to insure network security and integration to the IT network
• Maintain/troubleshoot ISP connections and upgrade as needed
• Perform firmware upgrades on network equipment

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of networking experience
• PCN – Process Control Network experience a plus [Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), Remote Terminal Units (RTUs), Human-Machine Interfaces (HMIs), Data Historians and Switches]
• OT – Operational Technology support experience a plus [Industrial Control Systems (ICS), Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), Distributed Control Systems (DCS), Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS)]

Education:

High School Diploma

Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.