Design, document and implement connectivity solutions to meet business requirements whilst maintain Emerson security posture and standards
- Segmented WAN using multiple VRFs with Palo Alto/Fortigate firewalling to control inter-VRF traffic flow
- Global WAN including the use of MPLS, IPSec and SD-WAN
- Experience with cloud connectivity and cloud integration into an enterprise network
**PRINCIPLE FUNCTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Conduct lab testing and complete detailed transition plan including details of changes, risks and rollback plan for integration activity
- Design, staging, configuration, implementation, and support for specific WAN installations and network changes
- Work as part of a wider team on the integration or divestiture of other companies into the Emerson network
- Provide our operations group with escalation support when required
- As required work to evaluate specific engineering requirements and design, test, document an optimal solution
- Participate in data center related projects that require networking input/solutions
- Participate in major incidents to aid resolution
**EDUCATION**
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field. Alternatively, commensurate work experience in lieu of degree.
- Fluent in English
**EXPERIENCE**
- Very strong background in designing and implementing Cisco WAN and switching solutions in an enterprise environment
- Experience with large-scale network deployments including the use of multi-VRF
- Experience architecting and designing routing and firewalling solutions
- Solid understanding of the different elements of an enterprise network and inter-dependence between them
- Experience working with business personnel to identify business challenges and providing solutions to those challenges
- Experience with designing and implementing VRF based segmentation
- Deep knowledge of networking and security in a data center environment, particularly with Cisco, Palo Alto, and F5
- Experience of SDN Architectures, ideally Big Switch (now Arista) Big Cloud Foundation (BCF) or Cisco ACI
- Excellent communication/documentation skills
**Required**:
A minimum of seven (5) years' networking experience to include the following:
- Cisco networking hardware configuration including and core/distribution layer infrastructure
- Switching experience including data centre
- Firewalling ideally both Cisco and Palo Alto
- Switching and routing
- Extensive experience of BGP in an enterprise environment
- Detailed TCPIP knowledge
- Experience designing and implementing highly resilient networks
- Segmentation solutions using Cisco hardware
- Excellent written and verbal English language skills
- Data centre networking experience
