Network Engineer III

Network Engineering Position

As a member of Thermo Fisher Scientific, you'll be part of inspiring initiatives! Join a team that values performance, quality, and innovation. Contributing to 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 R&D in the industry, we give our people the resources and chances to create meaningful contributions to the world.

This is a Network Engineering position with a focus on operational 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. 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 handle our network changes through a strict ITIL based process
• We supervise network health, including metrics collection, visualization, and alerting
• We are responsible for the network utilization over time to assist capacity management models
• We are owning 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 chances to make better 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 detailing system maintenance, improvements, and performance for effective network operations and management
• Call out 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 helpful
• 5-7 years of proven track record in 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
• Proficient in SD-WAN management & resolving is preferred
• 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, Security, Cloud
• Product: Cisco, Fortinet, F5, Silver Peak SDWAN, Arista, Clearpass, OperGear, Meraki, AWS, Azure
• Automation: Python, API, Service Orchestration

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, good customer service skills, and a demonstrable ability to collaborate with various teams.
• Be a self-motivated, highly ethical individual with a clear capability to work as independently as well as with a team.
• Skills in fixing and solving
• 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