Description

Mini-Circuits designs, manufactures and distributes integrated circuits, modules, and sub-systems for high-performance radio frequency (RF) and microwave applications.  With design, sales and manufacturing locations in over 30 countries, Mini-Circuits’ products are used in a range of wired and wireless communications applications. Our products are also used in detection, measurement and imaging applications, including military communication, guidance and electronic countermeasure systems, commercial, scientific, military land, sea and aircraft; automotive systems, medical systems, and industrial test equipment.

Mini-Circuits’ sells its products to over 20,000 customers globally through our direct sales force, applications engineering staff, sales representatives, as well as through our extensive website.

Salary Range: $98,900 - $148,300 per year

Position Summary:

The Network Engineer position would be responsible for the day-to-day management of the Mini-Circuits global network infrastructure and improving the performance and security of the network. This would enable the Mini-Circuits IT team to meet the business objectives for connectivity to application on the cloud and hosted on our on-prem data center.

Job Function:

• Resolves hardware and connectivity problems as they arise, escalating issues within the team when appropriate
• Plan and execute projects to migrate the infrastructure (storage, compute) from on-premises to cloud
• Configures, tests, and deploys physical and virtual computers and network equipment at our on-premises datacenters and in Azure/AWS
• Interacts with ISPs to resolve issues and install new circuits
• Assist in planning of projects and participate in managing initiatives
• Coordinate with Global IT Infrastructure, support team change/maintenance windows for infrastructure systems and security updates
• Performs routine software upgrades on network infrastructure to patch vulnerabilities
• Participates in the change management process: creating, reviewing, implementing, and validating changes
• Monitors and manages network infrastructure to ensure security, availability, recoverability, performance, and supportability
• Opens support tickets with vendors when needed to resolve hardware/software issues
• Stays current with new technologies
• May have to respond to alerts outside business hours and work on implementations/go live outside business hours
• Troubleshoot and monitor SD-WAN, Wireless-AP and VOIP systems.  
• Improve the local network to be more capable, secured and efficient from providing best connectivity for all end users

The duties, responsibilities and expectations described above are not a comprehensive list and additional tasks may be assigned to the member, within the scope of the position.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or related field of study with network engineering focus.
• 5-10+ years of network engineering experience in a multi-site or global organization.
• Deep knowledge of network infrastructure protocols.
• Ability to work with all levels of staff within and outside of IT.
• Switches – Required: CISCO, Dell.
• Understanding of Firewall ACL, syslog, routing.
• CISCO Meraki, security appliance and wireless AP.
• Experience with AWS, and Azure.
• Experience with CISCO ASA.
• Experience with setting up server rack and cable management.
• Experience with SD-WAN technology.
• Experience with configuring networking in VMware a plus but not mandatory.
• Experience with wireshark, network monitoring tools, and network performance tools.
• Thorough understanding of the latest network principles, techniques, and protocols.
• Preferred Certifications
• Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) and Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
• Cisco CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure and CCIE Enterprise Wireless
• SolarWinds Certified Professional

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, sit and use hands to operate a computer keyboard. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, and ability to adjust focus. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Additional Requirements/Skills:

• Comply, understand, and support corporate safety initiatives to ensure a safe work environment.
• Ability and willingness to abide by Company’s Code of Conduct.
• Ability to think through problems and visualize solutions.
• Strong communication and team collaboration skills required.

Disclaimer: The listed qualifications and requirements for each position are intended as guidelines.  Mini-Circuits reserves the right to hire outside of these guidelines at Management’s discretion.

Mini-Circuits is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived age, race, creed, color, national origin, sexual orientation, military status, sex, disability, predisposing genetic characteristics, marital status, familial status, gender identity, gender dysphoria, pregnancy-related condition, and domestic violence victim status or protected class characteristic, or any other protected characteristic as established by federal or state law.