Sr. Network Engineer

Miller is about building things that matter. We lead the welding industry in building advanced, solution-focused products and meeting crucial needs for welding safety and health.

We're about the partnership and the work. Our products are designed with our users for manufacturing, fabrication, construction, aviation, motorsports, education, agriculture and marine applications.

Miller Electric Mfg. LLC, is headquartered in Appleton, Wisconsin, and wholly owned by Illinois Tool Works (NYSE: ITW). The company maintains its industry leadership by setting the standard for reliability, quality and responsiveness. Our tagline, "The Power of Blue," is inspired by the blue color of Miller equipment.

The company began with an innovation that responded to customer needs, growing from a one-man operation in 1929, to the world's largest manufacturer of arc welding products. Miller keeps the tradition alive by focusing on its top priority: people.

The Sr. Network Engineer will play a key role in global network operations including design, support, implementation, troubleshooting, maintenance, and documentation. Focus will be on supporting day to day network operations, systems and network capacity, redundancy, high availability, implementation of network best practices and technologies while maintaining performance for critical applications. The position will work as part of a team, coordinating closely with the Information Security team and local IT team. Additionally, the Sr. Network Engineer will serve as a technical advisor for other projects and networks.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Design and oversee implementation and maintenance of a highly available, multi-use, LAN and WAN infrastructure utilizing fiber optics, copper, wireless, and leased-line services.

• Manage and monitor network performance and proactively identify optimization opportunities to enhance efficiency, scalability, reliability, security and cost-effectiveness in alignment with the organization requirements and goals

• Own and drive network standards, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), Disaster Recovery (DR) documentation, network diagrams, device, and license inventory.

• Administration of routers, switches, wireless, firewalls, and system monitoring tools.

• Maintain network policies and have knowledge of current security best practices and tools for a highly secure and available production environment.

• Validates overall network health, performance, availability, security, redundancy, and business continuity.

• Develop solutions to automate and improve network reliability and efficiency

• Serve as a technical expert, driving change to adopt new standards, maintaining reliability and improving performance metrics

• Provides Tier 3 support for the Enterprise network; including routing, switching, firewalls, VPNs, Wi-Fi, monitoring, and reporting applications

• Work with telecom providers to manage existing telecommunication circuits, troubleshoot outages, and install service upgrades.

• Participate in change management process including development of change management plan for production upgrades.