Network Engineer III

Genuine Parts Company; Birmingham (AL); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Genuine Parts Company in Birmingham, AL is seeking an experienced network engineer to design, implement, and troubleshoot data communications across all locations. You will provide integration and consulting services to internal departments and systems.

Minimum 5 years in planning, implementing, and maintaining critical networking environments; on-site preferred, with potential for remote consideration for top candidates.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent; college degree preferred.
• 5+ years planning, implementing, maintaining critical environments.
• 5-7 years networking experience with WAN/LAN technologies and hardware.
• WAN/LAN, data center, cloud, and branch connectivity with complex BGP routing.
• Ethernet switching, packet analysis, large-scale LAN/WAN deployments.
• Enterprise network management tools: PRTG, Fortinet Suite, Arista Cloud Vision.

Responsibilities

• Network monitoring & reporting
• Provide 3rd level network support & problem resolution
• Provide network architecture planning, design and implementation
• Interact with other corporate teams for enterprise level projects
• Provide WAN/LAN communication capacity management
• Maintain WAN/LAN documentation and business recovery procedures
• Change management, software updates and configuration management
• Evaluate & recommend networking hardware and software - data center and branch
• Operate and maintain the network management platforms
• Interact with NOC, Operations, vendors and support teams to maintain a stable network environment
• Security conscious network design

Skills

Networking expertise

L2/L3 routing & switching

Security-conscious design

Cross-team communication

Minimal travel

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

College degree preferred

Tools

Cisco

Arista

Fortinet

Fortinet Suite

Arista Cloud Vision

PRTG

Job description

Birmingham, AL, USA

Full time

Primary Purpose

Design, implement, and troubleshoot data communications systems for all locations. Provide integration and consulting services to all internal departments and systems.

You must be eligible to work in the US without Visa Sponsorship.

Principle Duties and Responsibilities

• Network monitoring & reporting


• Provide 3rd level network support & problem resolution


• Provide network architecture planning, design and implementation


• Interact with other corporate teams for enterprise level projects


• Provide WAN/LAN communication capacity management


• Maintain WAN/LAN documentation and business recovery procedures


• Change management, software updates and configuration management


• Evaluate & recommend networking hardware and software - data center and branch


• Operate and maintain the network management platforms


• Professionally interact with NOC, Operations, vendors and support teams to maintain stable network environment


• Security conscious network design

Job Specifications

• High school diploma or equivalent required - college degree preferred


• Minimum of 5 years experience in planning, implementing, and maintaining critical environments


• 5 - 7 years networking experience similar to:
  
  
  
  • Wide-area networking technologies, protocols, and related hardware (Cisco, Arista, Fortinet, etc.)
  
  
  • High-end L2/L3 routing and switching - spine and leaf (prefer Arista or Cisco)
  
  
  • SD-WAN/VPN/Basic Firewall (Prefer Fortinet)
  
  
  • Data Center, Cloud, Branch and Internet connectivity - Complex BGP routing
  
  
  • Extensive experience with Ethernet switching, packet analysis, and large-scale LAN and WAN deployments.
  
  
  • Enterprise network management tools - PRTG, Fortinet Suite, Arista Cloud Vision, etc
  
  
  
  


• Experience with network disaster recovery implementations


• Strong written & verbal communications skills


• Top-level performer with desire to be part of a high-functioning Engineering team


• Minimal travel


• Prefer daily on-site at Irondale, AL datacenter but will entertain remote for superior candidate

GPC conducts its business without regard to sex, race, creed, color, religion, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability, military status, status as a veteran, or any other protected characteristic. GPC's policy is to recruit, hire, train, promote, assign, transfer and terminate employees based on their own ability, achievement, experience and conduct and other legitimate business reasons.

Where permitted by applicable law, successful applicants must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 prior to start date. COVID-19 vaccination is a condition of employment, subject to an approved accommodation, and proof of vaccination will be required on or prior to start date.

GPC conducts its business without regard to sex, race, creed, color, religion, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability, military status, status as a veteran, or any other protected characteristic. GPC's policy is to recruit, hire, train, promote, assign, transfer and terminate employees based on their own ability, achievement, experience and conduct and other legitimate business reasons.