COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc. is an industry-leading innovation company focused on creating smarter, safer and more beautiful homes and improving lives. Our driving purpose is that we elevate every life by transforming spaces into havens. We believe our work and our brands can have incredibly positive impacts for not just our business and shareholders, but for people and the planet, too.
When you join Fortune Brands, you become part of a high-performing team who are empowered to think big, learn fast and make bold decisions. We support an inclusive and diverse culture where everyone is encouraged and empowered to be their authentic selves, and where our differences and unique perspectives are a key strength.

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Senior Network Engineer will be responsible for providing strategic planning, innovative solutions and advanced technical knowledge to design, implement and support enterprise voice, video and data services that align with the Company’s business and IT objectives. This position will provide hands-on technical leadership and will manage simple and enterprise-wide projects from initiation to completion for the voice, video and data infrastructure, complex engineering environments and the manufacturing plant floor. The Senior Network Engineer will partner with leaders in other business unit/operational areas to define requirements and develop architecture for scalable and reliable network infrastructure to meet present and future business needs.

EXPERIENCE:

• Experience with Arista, Fortinet, and Cisco switches, including network design, architecture, and technical skills.
• Experience with designing, implementing and maintaining an enterprise quality of service architecture suitable for converged voice, video and data services.
• Experience with designing, implementing and maintaining voice services compatible with Microsoft Teams calling
• Network connectivity including SD-WAN, ELAN, port aggregation, load balancing and failover etc.
• Experience with designing, implementing and maintaining Juniper and Cisco wireless networks.
• Determines standards for implementation and configuration of software, hardware and system capabilities.
• Experience with driving and providing technical leadership of the design and build out of new data networking environments.
• Experience with network monitoring and management tools; setup, configuration, ongoing maintenance and tweaking; ability to provide reports and develop strategic direction based on those reports.
• Exposure to SIP, MGCP, G.729, G.711, and RTP and H.323
• Experience with Fortinet perimeter security including firewalls and VPN technologies; IPSEC and SSL VPNs for internal and external customers.
• Enterprise experience with EIGRP, BGP, OSPF and spanning tree
• Experience with vendor management: Hardware, software, telecom service providers, 3rd party services and support.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Ability to understand basic business practices
• Ability to thrive in a fast paced and growing environment
• Ability to work under high stress and pressure environments
• Simple to complex project management
• Ability to use good judgment and experience to resolve complex issues and challenges.
• Takes ownership for work and initiative for requests, incidents and problems
• IT Professionalism in all aspects of the position
• Ability to prioritize projects and customer requests

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:

• 5-7 years as a Network Engineer with strong Fortinet, Arista, and Cisco router and switch design and management skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or related field is preferred; 2-year degree may be considered with appropriate experience

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Installation, maintenance and enhancements of global networks that deliver voice, video and data services on corporate production and guest networks
• Perimeter network security including Fortinet Fortigate and Cisco ASA/FTD.
• Maintenance of private DHCP services and both public and private DNS services.
• Ensure data integrity and security by evaluating, implementing, and managing appropriate network infrastructure hardware and software solutions utilizing industry standards and best practices.
• Assist with developing standards, policies, and configuration guidelines. Establish and document standards and procedures for team review.
• Conducts routine hardware and software audits of the network infrastructure to ensure compliance with established standards, policies, best practices and configuration guidelines.
• Perform upgrades to network infrastructure components.
• Develop detailed implementation plans including communication strategies, validation and back out procedures.
• Coordinates and implements low to high-risk network changes according to ITIL framework, independently to mission critical functional areas while following established designs and configurations already developed.
• Work with voice and data service providers to obtain new services and troubleshoot/maintain existing service
• Work with the IT group to develop and enhance processes and procedures for disaster recovery.
• Schedule and maintain projected efforts for projects, enhancements and administrative tasks.
• Assures technical development of other team members through sharing knowledge and experience.
• Develop, enhance and communicate key networking metrics to Senior Leadership.
• Perform work outside of normal business hours related but not limited to on-call incident escalation and off-hours maintenance work.
• Occasional travel to various FBIN locations