Network Engineer

Company: Sysco International Employment Type: Full-time Location Type: Remote Salary: Not Specified

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Company Description

Sysco is the global leader in selling, marketing and distributing food products to restaurants, healthcare and educational facilities, lodging establishments and other customers who prepare meals away from home. Its family of products also includes equipment and supplies for the foodservice and hospitality industries. With more than 72,000 colleagues, the company operates 334 distribution facilities worldwide and serves approximately 725,000 customer locations. For fiscal year 2023 that ended July 1, 2023, the company generated sales of more than $76 billion. Information about our Sustainability program, including Sysco’s 2023 Sustainability Report and 2023 Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Report, can be found at www.sysco.com.

Sysco International, officially formed in 2021, is the externally reported segment of Sysco's foodservice businesses outside of the United States. It comprises businesses in the Bahamas, Canada, Costa Rica, France, Ireland, Mexico, Panama, Sweden, the United Kingdom - as well as Sysco's export business, International Food Group.

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The Role

As a member of the Sysco Network team, the Senior Network Engineer is responsible for providing network support of Sysco’s initiative in networks and automation with a focus on delivering effective and efficient network support services. The Senior Network Engineer reports into the Network Manager but will be embedded into the Sysco Global Network team. The ideal candidate will have a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or closely related subject, and / or relevant network certifications including extensive experience.

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Role Responsibilities

• Maintain key Network devices on a daily basis
• Supports the user community via Service Now tickets, and assist in problem resolution
• Monitor operations of LAN, WAN, Load Balancing, VPN, Security, and Wi-Fi
• Monitors all aspects of project and daily operations as it relates to network services
• Provide timely project status updates to customers, PMO Teams, and management
• Performs operational tasks with Service Now ticket support.
• Understanding and ongoing support of all LAN, WAN, VPN, WLS, IPT, Load Balancing, Security, content filtering
• Perform problem isolation within the network infrastructure
• Participate in an enterprise infrastructure On-call rotation
• Participate within projects across the enterprise network
• Support the campus environments as required, remote site locations, and corporate Data Centre Locations
• Develop operational knowledge of Network-based tools that support the enterprise network environments

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Role Requirements

You will have considerable understanding of the following infrastructures:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, systems analysis or a related study, equivalent experience, CCNP, CCIE or other network qualifications
• Expert knowledge in at least two of the following:
  • Load balancers
  • Firewalls
  • BGP
  • BGP, OSPF, EIGRP
  • Security
  • Cloud networks
  • Automation
• Programming capability (Python)
• Relevant Certifications (CCNP or higher held continuously for 6+ years)
• Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments
• Strong understanding of network fundamentals
• Security qualification and cloud experience would be an advantage
• Analytical, problem-solving and communication skills
• Extensive knowledge of network integration with storage, compute, virtualization, security and wireless systems
• Strong time management and critical thinking skills
• Applying troubleshooting skills to resolve network issues

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Technical Skills Requirement

You will have considerable understanding of the following infrastructures:

• Cisco WAAS
• Cisco TACACS
• Cisco ASA Firewalls with multiple contexts, and failover configuration
• Cisco Catalyst 6500s, 4500s
• Cisco Nexus 9000 / 7000 / 5000 / 2000 products
• Cisco VSS
• Cisco StackWise and Flexstack switches
• Cisco Wireless Controllers
• Motorola Wireless
• QoS – V

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Application Instructions

To be added by the hiring team.