Senior Network Engineer

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We’re Hiring for a Senior Network Engineer!

If you are excited and passionate about helping #LetsSolveWater, consider joining our team today!  Xylem, Inc. is a leading global water technology company servicing more than 150 countries and is dedicated to solving the world’s most challenging water issues.  We are looking for individuals to join our mission by exceeding customer expectations through smart sustainable solutions.  At Xylem, you will have the opportunity to solve water by participating in our paid Volunteer Program, Xylem Watermark!

THE ROLE: The Sr. Network Engineer’s role is to architect, plan, implement, troubleshoot and issue resolution of existing and future network infrastructures to deliver best-in-class network performance. The infrastructure includes network LAN/WAN (switches, routers), WLAN and VoIP.  The successful candidate must be problem solver, self-starter, work with limited supervision, a team player and able to clearly communicate with other team members, management and user community and effectively work with external vendors and technology partners.   We offer a full benefits package to include Flexible Time Off (FTO) for salaried positions, health, dental, vision, investment savings plan, and additional miscellaneous benefits.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:  To perform the job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

• Analyze business requirements to develop technical network solutions and their framework.
• Provide design, engineering and architectural support to manage the network infrastructure including technical requirements, analysis, design and implementation of WAN, LAN, WLAN, SD-WAN, SDN and VoIP.
• Proactively identify areas of improvement in our designs, implementations, and processes to avoid production downtime and drive a culture of Operational Excellence.
• Provide level 3 network support including system monitoring and troubleshooting to resolve issues.
• Engineer, document and implement LAN, WAN and WLAN solutions.
• Mentor junior team members develop departmental procedures and best practices standards.
• Provide recommendations to management team to increase effectiveness of organization and technology solutions.
• Develops and achieves discipline strategy in alignment with functional goals and key business objectives.
• Collaborates with experts within function to integrate technical objectives into activities associated with accelerated development of new/improved technology.
• Advances technical expertise within function. Proactively demonstrates leadership by advising and sharing knowledge and expert opinions with subordinates, peers, and senior management. Mentors and trains functional colleagues and assess current and emerging business challenges enabling functional goal achievement.
• Ensures quality and effectiveness of major project plans within function through sound design, early risk assessments, and implementation of fallback strategies.
• Applies imagination and innovation by creating, inventing, and implementing new or better approaches, alternatives and breakthrough ideas that are valued by customers within the function.
• Sources and identifies emerging technological trends from multiple internal and external sources and assess relevance. Integrates trends into functional short-term objectives. Advances cross‐discipline technology and direction through generation of data.
• Write technical design and build documentations for all aspects of a technical infrastructure.

QUALIFICATIONS**:**

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

• 7 or more years of relevant experience architecting, designing, installing and maintaining network systems.

• Functional experience in Network architect role or equivalent.

• CCNP certification or equivalent is a plus.

• Intermediate experience with multivendor global enterprise environment.

• Intermediate experience in architecting large/medium scale global networks and documentation.

• Intermediate experience in SDN and SD-WAN.

• Intermediate experience with Cisco switching and routing platforms such as Cisco Nexus, Cisco Catalyst, Cisco ISR and ASR.

• Intermediate experience and understanding of OSI or TCP/IP model.

• Intermediate experience and understanding of dynamic routing (BGP, EIGRP and OSPF).

• Intermediate experience and understanding in technical areas: Networking Protocols/Services BGP, OSPF, IPSec, GRE, HSRP/VRRP, NAT/PAT, SNMP, MPLS, VoIP, SIP, VPLS, QoS, T1, DS3, Ethernet, Firewalls, SDN , SDA and Cisco DNA.

• Technical abilities and working experience of Cisco network infrastructure.

• Intermediate experience in wireless protocols (802.11) and Cisco Wireless Controllers.

• Preferred experience in network load balancers such as Citrix NetScaler.

• Intermediate experience in Network security, Cisco ASA and Palo Alto firewall platforms.

• Project management skills, ability to manage time and complex tasks, and working knowledge of SLAs and Metrix.

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to work effectivity with a wide range of constituencies to communicate technical information and non-technical personnel.

DAY IN THE LIFE**:**

In this role, the working environment is generally in an office setting and may be performed remotely.  The physical demands may include but are not limited to moving around in an office environment, frequent oral communication, close vision, and ability to operate office equipment.  In addition, this role may include approximately 5%-10% travel.

At Xylem, we embrace diversity and strive to create avenues where employees feel valued and appreciated through our DE&I initiatives and Employee Resources Groups (ERG).  Xylem is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action workplace.  Xylem prohibits discrimination, harassment of any kind and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or sexual orientation (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, marital status, medical conditions or disability, genetic information, age, or other non-merit factors.

Join the global Xylem team today!  Xylem is a team creating advanced technology solutions to the world’s water challenges through developing new technologies and services that will improve the way water is used, conserved, and re-used in the future is central to our work. Our products and services move, treat, analyze, monitor, and return water to the environment, in public utility, industrial, residential, and commercial building services settings. Xylem also provides a leading portfolio of smart metering, network technologies and advanced analytics solutions for water, electric and gas utilities.

Disclaimer: The information listed within this job description is designed to indicate the general nature of work expected for this position and shall not be viewed as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required in this position.  Employees must be able to perform the essential functions of the position satisfactorily and if requested, reasonable accommodations will be made to enable employees with disabilities to perform the essential functions of their job absent undue hardship.  Xylem reserves the right to modify this job description or assign other duties to this position as needed.