Senior Network Engineer

Work Your Magic with us! Start your next chapter and join EMD Electronics.

Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.  

Everything we do in EMD Electronics is to help us deliver on our purpose of being the company behind the companies, advancing digital living. We are dedicated to being the trusted supplier of high-tech materials, services and specialty chemicals for the electronics, automotive and cosmetics industries. We foster a global collaborative organization made up of individuals who have the passion to win, obsess about the customer, are relentlessly curious and act with urgency. Together, we push the boundaries of science to make more possible for our customers.

Your Role:

• Coordinate the resolution of assigned network infrastructure related incidents and problems and the successful management of related changes and risk
• Evolve capabilities within the network to ensure it continually adapts to changes in the MilliporeSigma technology landscape and changing business requirements
• Establishes network performance measurements and goals, directs network activities, and change management
• ensure the stability and integrity voice, data, video, and wireless network services.
• planning, designing, and developing of local area networks (LANs) and wide area networks (WANs) across the organization
• participate with the installation, monitoring, maintenance, support, and optimization of all network hardware, software, and communication links
• Work outside of normal business hours may be required on an as-needed basis
• Enforce network and network security standards throughout the infrastructure
• Provide a positive and professional user experience at all times when engaging both internal and external users.  
• Be part of a performance driven, risk taking culture that promotes open and honest feedback. 
• Think globally and work across departments and geographies, encouraging teamwork that respects diverse backgrounds and cultural differences to drive results. 
• Potential out-of-business hours maintenance work

Location:  Allentown and Tamaqua, PA locations. Candidate will be required to work onsite at multiple locations in US and remotely

Travel:  No more than 10% travel is required (domestic and international)

Who You Are

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree, industry certification(s), relevant experience, or a combination there of. 
• 7+ years of hands-on experience in full-cycle design, engineering, configuration and administration of routers & switches, firewalls, multi-segment networks and MPLS WANs

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge in Quality of Services (QoS), multiprotocol label switching (MPLS), and virtual private network (VPN) architectures
• Knowledge of various networking protocols and technologies such as HTTP – HTTPS – DNS – VPN (IPSec/SSL) - TCP/IP stack – FTP – TFTP – SMTP - IEEE Standards – QoS – VoIP (H.323, SIP) OSPF, MPLS, ACL's, eBGP /iBGP, 802.1D/W, Policy Based and Static routing, Fiber Channel over Ethernet, VRF and Virtual Device Contexts
• Knowledge of enterprise wireless network technologies
• Knowledge of SD-WAN architectures and concepts
• Knowledge enterprise wired route/switch technology (Cisco Catalyst preferred) 
• Strong analytical skills and ability to think strategically
• Excellent organizational and time management skills
• Highly developed interpersonal and teamwork skills 

What we offer: We are curious minds that come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We celebrate all dimensions of diversity and believe that it drives excellence and innovation, strengthening our ability to lead in science and technology. We are committed to creating access and opportunities for all to develop and grow at your own pace. Join us in building a culture of inclusion and belonging that impacts millions and empowers everyone to work their magic and champion human progress!

Apply now and become a part of our diverse team!

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