Staff IoT Network Engineer, Materials Manufacturing Network Engineering

Specialize in network engineering in an industrial environment. This role will provide network engineering, implementation, analytical, and operational support. The Engineer will ensure compliance with established system architecture, regulations, and security policies, follow standards and best practices, and author and maintain support documentation.



Responsibilities

• Lead the IoT Network Engineering team on designs, production deployments, and initiatives
• Maintain current network solutions within manufacturing sites, ensuring compliance and security
• Serve as a Tier 2-3 escalation point for complex network issues
• Gather requirements, analyze, and propose solutions for networking needs specific to materials manufacturing
• Provision, implement, validate, and maintain networking services remotely, leveraging regional staging environments
• Monitor, analyze, and report metrics of network services to ensure optimal performance
• Support and drive Project Bobcat (Cathode) and Project Lynx, including network health monitoring, moves, additions, troubleshooting, and construction completion of IDF/MDF rooms
• Assist in improving the cybersecurity posture of the Materials Division, including creating policies and procedures, secure remote access, and performing firewall rule reviews and lockdown
• Become proficient in Emerson DeltaV and DCS control systems to provide backup for material-related network tasks
• Document network knowledge base and maintain an operational "Run-Book" for ongoing support and future reference

Requirements

• 5+ years' experience in a production industrial or manufacturing networking infrastructure
• Extensive experience in IP networking, L2/L3 network protocols (spanning-tree, OSPF, BGP), TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, end to end QOS/COS (focused on industrial real-time protocols), VLAN, VRRP, LACP, SDWAN, EVPN with VXLAN, ACL, application flow, NAC, and infrastructure cabling
• Extensive experience with multi-vendor industrial switching technologies including Cisco IE (IOS and IOS XE/IOx), Hirschmann, Siemens, Beckhoff, Moxa, N-Tron and similar industrial switches and PLCs
• Working experience with other common non-industrial switching platforms such as Juniper, Arista, etc.
• Working experience with industrial protocols such as CIP Ethernet/IP, PROFINET, BACnet, EtherCAT, Modbus, REP, MRP, HSR and similar protocols
• Working experience with distributed control system (DCS) networks in a manufacturing environment. Honeywell Experion, Emerson DeltaV, ABB 800xA, or similar
• Experience with Cisco, Juniper, Fortinet, and Palo Alto Networks firewall services including IPSEC VPN, URL filtering, and IDS/IPS
• Experience with various tools such as Protocol Analyzer, Wireshark, SNMP, Netflow, IPAM, RADIUS, Splunk, network taps, SPAN ICS scanners (CyberVision, Claroty, Teneble, etc.), and load/stress testing
• Experience with developing scripts to automate infrastructure deployment and collect metrics (Salt, Ansible, Python, Shell Scripting)
• CCNP, CCNA Industrial certifications preferred