Senior Network Engineer at AOI in Sugar Land, TX

Job description

• The MIS team is responsible for the design, reliability, and security of the network infrastructure supporting 24/7 manufacturing operations, enterprise systems, and secure cross-site connectivity. We are seeking a Senior Network Engineer who will take technical ownership of AOI's network and security stack and play a critical role in ensuring high availability, performance, and security across all environments.
• This is a hands-on, infrastructure-focused role centered on the design, deployment, configuration, and ongoing administration of network and security systems. The successful candidate will work extensively with Cisco routers, switches, and firewalls, site-to-site and remote-access VPNs, and network monitoring and alerting platforms in a multi-site manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

• Designs, configures, maintains, and coordinates the use of customer's Local Area and Wide Area Networks over Site-to-Site VPN.
• Maximizes network performance by monitoring performance; troubleshooting network problems and outages; scheduling upgrades; collaborating with network architects on network optimization.
• Secures network system by establishing and enforcing policies; defining and monitoring access.
• Updates and maintains all documentation requested by management and will be tasked with improving such documentation as required.
• Accomplishes information systems and organization mission by completing related results as needed.
• Reports network operational status by gathering, prioritizing information; managing projects.
• Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.

Requirements

• Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related program
• 7+ years’ experience in Tracking Budget Expenses, Project Management, Network Design and Implementation, Network Troubleshooting, Network Hardware Configuration, Network Performance Tuning
• LAN Knowledge & VOIP Knowledge
• Knowledge of Cisco Routers, Switches, Firewalls – Software and Hardware Configurations
• Strong verbal and written communication skills for effective collaboration between team members
• Proficiency in Microsoft Suite for project documentation and reporting
• Bilingual in Mandarin is preferred
• CCNA Certification is a plus

Skills

Required

• LAN Knowledge
• VOIP Knowledge

Preferred

• Proficiency in Microsoft Suite
• Bilingual in Mandarin
• CCNA Certification

Benefits

• Flexible and competitive health (medical, dental, vision) plans offer the employee with the right options to meet individual and family needs
• Employer matching on 401(k) deferrals
• Generous PTO policy, with unused PTO payout at end of the year
• Relocation packages available within the United States.