Field Network Operations Engineer (30% Travel)

Flint Hills Resources; Katy (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Life Insurance

Retirement

Paid Vacation

Job summary

Koch Engineered Solutions (KES) in Katy, TX is seeking a Network Operations Engineer to own network quality across manufacturing facilities, offices, and active construction sites. You will help ensure reliable, secure network services and partner with our shared service provider on remediation and modernization.

You will shape standards, monitor performance, and drive timely resolution in a fast-moving industrial environment, with travel up to 30% to remote sites and construction locations.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with enterprise routing, switching, TCP/IP, VLANs, routing protocols, DNS, and DHCP.
• Experience configuring and troubleshooting enterprise firewalls, including Fortinet FortiGate and/or Cisco.
• Experience using monitoring and service management data to identify risks and drive vendors or service providers to resolution.
• Ability to travel an average of 30 % of the time, including to active construction sites.

Responsibilities

• Assure the quality of routing, switching, wireless, remote access, and firewall services across KES locations.
• Review network health, configurations, policies, firmware, and compliance; identify gaps and coordinate remediation with Koch Technologies.
• Monitor service performance, incidents, and requests; set business priority and drive timely resolution and communication.
• Manage network lifecycle risks, refresh plans, documentation, and asset records.
• Oversee connectivity requirements, readiness, and service quality for construction and remote sites.
• Define measurable service standards, review provider performance, and drive corrective action.
• Work in a variety of environments, including indoor and outdoor industrial manufacturing spaces, active construction sites, server rooms and office spaces.

Skills

Routing & Switching

TCP/IP

DNS/DHCP

Fortinet FortiGate / Cisco firewall

Monitoring & Incident Mgmt

Travel willingness

Meraki cloud networking

OT/ICS security basics

Cloud platforms (AWS, VMware)

Tools

Fortinet FortiGate

Cisco

Job description

Koch Engineered Solutions (KES) in Katy, TX is seeking a Network Operations Engineer to own network quality across manufacturing facilities, offices, and active construction sites. You will help ensure reliable, secure network services and partner with our shared service provider on remediation and modernization.

You will shape standards, monitor performance, and drive timely resolution in a fast-moving industrial environment, with travel up to 30% to remote sites and construction locations.