Senior Network Engineer

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What You Need To Know

Open the door to a groundbreaking tech career with an industry leader. Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits is North America's preeminent wine and spirits distributor, as well as a family-owned, privately held company with a 50+ year legacy of success. To create a new era in alcohol beverage sales and service, we're heavily invested in the most transformative new technologies - and the most brilliant tech professionals. Southern Glazer's was named by Newsweek as a Most Loved Workplace and is included on the Forbes lists for Largest Private Companies and Best Employers for Diversity.

As a full-time employee, you can choose from a full menu of our Top Shelf Benefits, including comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage, dental and vision plans, tax-saving Flexible Spending Accounts, disability coverage, life insurance plans, and a 401(k) plan. We also offer tuition reimbursement, a wellness program, parental leave, vacation accrual, paid sick leave, and more.

We offer continuous learning and career growth in a fast-paced environment where you are respected, your voice is heard, and technology is part of our strategy for success. If you're looking to fill your glass with opportunity, come join our FAMILY.

Overview

The Senior Network Engineer is responsible for the planning, design, configuration, implementation, testing and transition to steady state support of Infrastructure such as; network, telecommunications, and network applications across the enterprise. They will partner with peer engineering teams on best practices, process, standards, and configuration management. The Engineer evaluates vendor supplied hardware, components and software packages for fit and performance and makes recommendations to IT management. This individual modifies and/or debugs vendor-supplied utilities and packages. The Engineer maintains technical documentation for the network, telecommunication systems and network applications. The Engineer diagnoses isolates and de-bugs hardware and software problems and performs problem resolution. The role is responsible for delivering solutions that are stable, secure, scalable and cost effective, as well providing escalation support to the administrators.

Specialized Skills and Technologies

Network / Voice

• Experience with Cisco Networking, ACI, Azure, AWS, Palo Alto
• Strong Experience in:
  • Cisco Networking
  • Azure Networking experience
  • Deep understanding of BGP routing
  • Knowledge of OSPF, IGRP, EIGRP, VLAN's and Multi-layer switching
  • Data Center Administration and Deployment
  • Palo Alto Firewall experience or equivalent
• CCDP or CCNP equivalent required

Primary Responsibilities

General

• Stay current on supported technologies through various training opportunities
• Identify opportunities to enhance processes, procedures and policies relating to engineering function
• Travel up to 25%
• Coach and mentor others
• Participate in 24 x 7 on call rotation
• Physical demands with activity or condition may include occasional to rare amount of time include walking, bending, reaching, standing, and stooping
• May require occasional lifting/lowering, pushing, carrying, or pulling up to 50lbs

Network / Voice

• Expertise with network engineering
• Ability to perform capacity and resource planning, assess risks, and recommend, design and implement plans for network systems
• Ability to troubleshoot to identify and correct malfunctions and help solve
• multi-faceted problems
• Working knowledge of network security systems, applications, procedures, and techniques
• Experience in telecommunications and network engineering and with telecommunications, network hardware and software components that match the technologies within SGWS Glazer's infrastructure landscape
• Good verbal/written communication skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to analyze and solve problems

Preferred Qualifications

• Possess professional level industry certification(s)
• 9 or more years of expert level experience in Infrastructure engineering role
• Strong ability to create, read, analyze, and interpret technical diagrams and written procedures
• Strong ability to arrange processes or data in order of patterns specific to policies, processes or system requirements
• Deep expertise to analyze and solve problems, think outside of the box and grasp technical concepts
• Strong ability to combine information or data to find relationships among seemingly unrelated events
• Experience in telecommunications and network engineering and with telecommunications, network hardware and softwarecomponents that match the technologies within SGWS Glazer's infrastructure landscape
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and can translate security objectives to cross-functional partners.
• Experience using data to inform decisions and familiarity with quantified risk.
• Ability to perform capacity and resource planning, assess risks, and recommend, design and implement plans for network systems
• Ability to troubleshoot to identify and correct malfunctions and help solve
• multi-faceted problems
• Working knowledge of data center network systems, applications, procedures, and techniques
• Experience building data center and cloud based networks.
• Track record of implementing and deploying complex network solutions.
• Provide accurate and timely updates to work tickets, incidents, and outages
• ITIL Foundation certified
• Ability to lead small teams to complete assigned deliverables
• Strong team player

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Technical degree in related field or equivalent experience
• 7 or more years of work experience in an Infrastructure engineering role
• Deep experience in telecommunications and networking environments, security, and other technologies that match SGWS's infrastructure landscape
• Deep experience with design, implementation, configuration, tuning and optimization of technologies within SGWS's landscape
• Proven problem-solving skills
• Recommend software revisions for existing hardware and software as appropriate
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to analyze and solve problems
• Strong team player who is able to work across multiple functions and disciplines
• Capability to understand SGWS' application portfolio as well as how the different systems contribute to daily business operations
• ITIL Foundation certified

Agile Delivery Values

• Openness - Team and stakeholders agree to be open about all work and challenges
• Commitment - Personally commit to achieving the goals of the team
• Respect - Respect your team members to be capable and independent
• Courage - You have courage to do the right thing and work on tough problems
• Focus - Everyone focus on the work in the sprint and the goal of the scrum team. Rise and fall as a team

Physical Demands

• Physical demands include a considerable amount of time sitting and typing/keyboarding, using a computer (e.g., keyboard, mouse, and monitor), or mobile device
• Physical demands with activity or condition may occasionally include walking, bending, reaching, standing, squatting, and stooping
• May require occasional lifting/lowering, pushing, carrying, or pulling up to 20lbs

EEO Statement

Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits, an Affirmative Action/EEO employer, prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. SGWS complies with all federal, state and local laws concerning consideration of a qualified applicant's arrest and/or criminal conviction records. Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits provides competitive compensation based on estimated performance level consistent with the past relevant experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and education of employees. Unless otherwise expressly stated, any pay ranges posted here are estimates from outside of Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits and do not reflect Southern Glazer's pay bands or ranges.