Senior Network Engineer

Total Number of Openings

2

About the position:

The Chevron ENGINE – Senior Business Network Engineer is responsible for consulting, designing, and deploying networking technologies and solutions for the entire enterprise and for business partners. As a team member, you will use your infrastructure experience and network knowledge to serve as subject matter expert and project consultant to improve or introduce network capabilities that drives business capabilities while protecting Chevron from external and internal threats. You will work closely with architects, business partners, managed service partners, vendors, cybersecurity, cross infrastructure, and digital platforms to solve difficult, rapidly changing technical challenges. Where new technologies are introduced, the Engineer will work closely with the Operations team to successfully transition. The expectation for this role is 5-10 years of relevant experience.

The Network Engineer will work with cutting-edge technology and engage in a wide range of global projects, mergers, divestitures, and initiatives. These experiences will allow you to gain valuable expertise in areas such as business, industrial and PCN network systems, automation, wireless, (RF) protocols and devices, Azure networking, and network security mechanisms. To be a successful network engineer, you should be able to identify the optimal network-based alternative for our digital platforms and implement on-prem and cloud infrastructures in accordance with best practices and company security policies. You understand the connectivity details of various network technologies and solutions located on the business, industrial and process control networks, and their impacts on solution design. The Network Engineer should have top-notch troubleshooting skills, keep up with industry trends, and work well in a team.

Key responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain business and industrial communication solutions to solve business problems and provide value to a wide variety of business functions.
• Participate in the design, implementation and troubleshooting of our network infrastructure.
• Analyzes network security needs and designs solutions that meet business requirements for protection, standardization, efficiency, scalability, supportability, and cost-effectiveness. Contributes to lifecycle activities.
• Configuration of collaboration services, dial plans and troubleshooting
• Gather requirements and interact with multiple internal and external stakeholders to design and engineer our network infrastructure to support Network products.
• Create technical design documentation and implementation/test plans. Provide comprehensive tier-3 support for the operational teams, this includes working with and coordinating vendors and service providers.
• Interact with global peers within the network design, operation and across other support teams to support change implementations and solve challenging escalated problems. Implement and maintain processes, procedures and associated plans for network infrastructure including administration, usage, and disaster recovery Use ticketing and change management systems to track incidents and changes.
• Participate in BCP and DRP events and exercises as part of a team supporting the overall network and business environment.
• Develops and implements solutions and processes to maintain the reliability, effectiveness, and efficiency of network security infrastructure components across the enterprise and associated process control environments.
• Works with project managers, team members, architects, business units and other stakeholders to create agile solutions, identifying continuous improvement opportunities, creating new or improved processes and automation to support step changes in operational efficiencies.
• Analyzes network security needs and designs solutions that meet business requirements for protection, standardization, efficiency, scalability, supportability, and cost-effectiveness. Contributes to lifecycle activities.
• Follows standard change management processes and practices when introducing technical changes to the environment.
• Develops and shares best practices with other teams.

Required Qualifications:

• Requires a bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Minimum of 5-10 years of experience network engineering and wireless communications.
• English language (advanced)
• Develop and maintain architectural blueprints, solution designs, and technical documentation.

Demonstrated skilled to advanced knowledge and experience in critical skills:

o Azure: Load Balancer and Application Gateway

o Load balancer e.g. F5 Application Security and Delivery Solutions

o IP Services e.g. DNS, DHCP CCNP or CCIE certification.

• Deep experience in the design, architecture and consulting for Global Enterprise's Domain Name Services, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocols, Internet Protocol Address Management Systems and Load Balancer Technologies
• Experience with Business Network Infrastructure Products and Services globally including Name Servers, Name Caching Servers, Active Directory Sites and Services, DNS Root, All Enterprise Subnets and their distribution Globally via IPAM Solutions such as TCPWave, BlueCat, and InfoBlox.
• Experience with management of Extranet Subnet Allocations, WAN Subnet Allocations, BU Network Subnet Allocations, VRF Management, Data Center IP Topology, BigIP F5 Load Balancer Technology and future state Load Balancing Technologies, as well as Security Services and Life Cycle Management.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certifications in Windows Server, Azure and technology products mentioned are nice to have.

Chevron ENGINE supports global operations, supporting business requirements across the world. Accordingly, the work hours for employees will be aligned to support business requirements. The standard work week will be Monday to Friday. Working hours are 8:00am to 5:00pm or 1.30pm to 10.30pm.

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