JOB DESCRIPTION

We are Builders FirstSource, America’s largest supplier of building materials, value-added components and building services to the professional market. You’ll feel proud of the work you do here every day to transform the future of home building and help make the dream of home ownership more achievable. At BFS, we believe building a successful career is not solely defined by a degree. Your experience, skills, and passion are just as important, if not more so. As such, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace that welcomes candidates from all backgrounds and experience levels.
The senior network engineer under general supervision, designs, implements and troubleshoots networking solutions based upon business requirements. This includes but is not limited to configuring routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, wireless access points / controllers, SD-WAN appliances in break/fix and new deployment scenarios. This position will be responsible for researching and providing overall roadmap and direction for the BFS network team, as well as documenting and training other team members on those new technologies. They will also support all BFS remote locations and data centers including the public cloud such as AWS/Azure.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university
• 4+ years relevant work experience
• Or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• Advanced knowledge of routing and switching
• Advanced knowledge of data center technologies both private and public cloud
• CCNP – Or equivalent knowledge/experience

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Installs complex hardware, systems and software for network and/or security components
• Develops and maintain scripts to facilitate network administrative tasks and automate repetitive processes
• Evaluates and recommends new and emerging technologies and works with engineers to design/implement solutions based on business initiatives
• Recommends solutions that address network performance, user satisfaction and business needs of the organization
• Leads others to conduct the technical analysis of current networks
• Writes requirements documents for evaluation of new hardware/software
• Leads the implementation of data/system security processes including access controls, monitoring software, and generation of security reports
• Provides training and documentation to the NOC and Administrator teams for newly deployed technologies
• Assists troubleshooting for data centers and remote locations
• Implements performance tuning
• Identifies trends in issues and determines the root cause to reduce future issues
• Facilitate shipping, receiving, and inventory tracking to support physical infrastructure needs.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Subject to both typical office environment and outside locations with temperature and weather variations.
• Must be able to lift and carry up to 25 pounds.
• Occasional travel may be required