Network Engineer - Remote

Job Posting:

Since 1953, Ferguson has been a source of quality supplies for a variety of industries. Together We Build Better infrastructure, better homes and better businesses. We exist to make our customers’ complex projects simple, successful, and sustainable. We proactively solve problems, adapt and grow to continuously serve our customers, communities and each other. Ferguson , a Fortune 500 company, is proud to provide best-in-class products, service and capabilities across the following industries: Commercial/Mechanical, Facilities Supply, Fire and Fabrication, HVAC, Industrial, Residential Trade, Residential Building and Remodel, Waterworks and Residential Digital Commerce. Ferguson has approximately 36,000 associates across 1,700 locations. Ferguson is a community of proud associates who operate with the shared purpose of building something meaningful. You will build a career that you are proud of, at a company you can believe in.

We have an exciting opportunity for an Enterprise Network Design Engineer to join Ferguson 's Enterprise Network Engineering team. This role supports and enhances a large-scale network environment spanning approximately 1,400 locations across North America. We're seeking a technically strong engineer with hands-on experience in Cisco, SD-WAN, and Meraki technologies who can troubleshoot complex issues, contribute to network design initiatives, and help deliver reliable, secure, and scalable network solutions across the enterprise.

Location: This role is approved to be fully remote and can be based anywhere in the United States.
Responsibilities:

- Collaboratively design/manage all WAN/LAN, WLAN, VPN, and Network Infrastructure.

- Work in tandem with other engineers and architects, the Network Operations Center (NOC), Security Operations Center (SOC), incident responders (when anomalous activity occurs), technology infrastructure and development team members.

- Good troubleshooting of all network infrastructure

- Proactively research, analyze and recommend new technologies to meet changing business needs.

- Improve the infrastructure's uptime, performance and reliability.

- Establishing and implementing standards and policies for all network infrastructure.

- Accountable for optimizing network performance for scalability, reliability and usability.

- Optimally work as part of a team to meet team goals and objectives.

- Develop and maintain documentation related to design/changes in network infrastructure.

- Configures, troubleshoots and scales load balancing platforms, with a focus on F5-based/specific environments

- Design network configuration settings for internal and external systems, including modification of DHCP, VPN, SD-WAN and VLANs.

- Modifying both core and edge routers and switch configurations as needed.

- Supporting team on escalated major incidents technical infrastructure issues and follow through to satisfactory resolution.

- Coordinating installation, repair or maintenance of network hardware equipment.

- Partnering with IT Service Delivery, NOC and Operations Managers to maintain hardware and software inventory to ensure compliance and asset management.

- Accurately documenting all new system implementations and modifications to existing systems (moves, adds, changes).

- Ownership in Disaster Recovery planning, development and implementation for network infrastructure.

- Ensuring compliance with IT Security and Governance processes, such as Change control, SOX and PCI.

- Identify and implement technical and service improvements.

- Ensuring technology documents/certificates such as product registrations, licensing, activations, SSL certificates, maintenance agreements, service contracts, etc. related to technology operations and/or technology services are evaluated, updated and processed.

- Ensuring networks and associated software applications are operational; ensure hardware and software is patched and/or updated; ensure all data circuits are op