Network Engineer - Portland Oregon
Network Engineer - Portland Oregon
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Job Description
Company Summary
Hampton Lumber is a familyowned wood products company headquartered in Portland Oregon. With over 1700 employees we operate nine sawmills in Western Oregon Washington and British Columbia. We also manage timberland and operate a wholesale and export division. With over 80 years in the sawmill business we are proud to have cultivated the knowledge and experience needed to grow and prosper even in challenging times. We always look to the future and invest in our people new technologies and continuous improvement processes and techniques.
Overview
We are seeking a Network Engineer with strong character who is proactive flexible creative kind patient and able to travel 1020 of the month. The position requires practical handson knowledge and a thorough understanding of network administration. Additional knowledge and experience with systems administration is desired. This person must have or develop an understanding of underlying business fundamentals and strive to achieve objectives supporting those business requirements.
Benefits Highlights
- Substantial companypaid assistance for Medical and Dental insurance premiums; mental health coverage; cost effective copays and deductibles
- 401(k) with 5 annual company contribution and generous company matching contributions vested over three years
- Paid time off including 8 paid holidays
- Participation in employee bonus program
- Employee wellness program that includes free counseling sessions financial and legal guidance and more
- Opportunities for paid training to support career advancement and personal development
Responsibilities
Detailed responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
- Provide production network deployment configuration support and upgrades of Switches Routers endpoint devices as well as WAN circuits MPLS and VPN services.
- Assist with troubleshooting production network devices including but not limited to desktops servers switches routers and video cameras.
- Assist as needed with patch management for all production devices.
- Assist in the development and implementation of standardized IT practices and procedures.
- Assist with design implementation and support of network upgrades for locations across the United States and British Columbia.
- Perform network monitoring to provide proactive alerting and historical performance records.
- Plan for capacity and growth of the environment.
- Collaborate with other support teams to provide quality of service to both internal and external partners.
- Collaborate with 3rd party vendors to develop support/upgrade procedures for network devices.
- Documentation in the form of basic how to documents designs documentation performance reporting as well as operational procedures.
- Ensures network security standards are maintained and enhanced.
- Participate in 24x7 system support rotation and handle escalations.
- Requires travel between sites; must have reliable transportation valid drivers license and proof of insurance.
- Must be focused on quality customer service for both internal and external customers.
- Must work well in a teambased structure and in situations of limited supervision.
- Ability to be flexible in evaluating priority tasks and multitask to maintain a high level of control over area of responsibility.
- Develops and understands key deadlines and is committed to achieving those deadlines.
- Constantly strive for improvement in systems processes and efficiencies.
- Management may modify add or reallocate job responsibilities to better accommodate the needs of the business.
Qualifications
Skills & Abilities:
- Fundamental understanding of network systems operating systems program maintenance systems administration and enterprise applications.
- Fundamental understanding and direct handson experience with major vendors router and switch configurations: Cisco Fortinet Palo Alto Rockwell.
- Strong wired and wireless network troubleshooting skills using network traces to find root causes.
- Indepth understanding and experience with WAN technologies: MPLS / EVPL DS1 DS2 OCS T1/T3 and even POTs and dial up modem services.
- Experience in an industrial/manufacturing environment is strongly desired.
- Proficient in the following network protocols: TCP/IP RIP DNS BGP OSPF SIP VOIP SFTP etc.
- Experience using Microsoft NPS IIS and DHCP
- Experience designing deploying and supporting dynamic routing protocols.
- Solid understanding and direct handson experience with Windows operating systems is .
- Solid verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong collaboration skills working directly with nontechnical stakeholders on discussing requirements tasks and implementation.
- Proven ability to work as a team and adapt to different roles.
- Extensive experience with the setup and support of businesstobusiness VPNs is a plus.
Education & Training Required:
- Related bachelors degree plus 3 years direct experience or 8 years of experience with enterprise networks.
- Network/Security Certifications CCNACCNPCCIECISSP are strongly desired.
- Strong understanding of WLAN technologies including 802.11 and Aruba mesh point to multipoint networks.
More About Us
Hampton Lumber is a fourthgeneration familyowned company headquartered in Portland Oregon that has grown to become one of the nations largest privately held forest products companies. With over 80 years in the sawmill business Hampton operates sawmills in Oregon Washington and British Columbia and markets wood products all over the world. We also manage a wholesale and lumber export division and numerous reload and remanufacturingfacilities throughout the U.S. All of Hamptons forestlands are certified by the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) an independent nonprofit organization that promotes sustainable forest management. SFI certified forests play an important role in water conservation wildlife habitat and climate solutions.
Community is important to us and we encourage and support our employees desire to be active in the community through volunteering and special projects. We passionately support youth education career and technical education the arts diversity and inclusion affordable housing and antipoverty programs. We are also proud sponsors of the Portland Timbers and the Portland Thorns soccer clubs. Go Timbers! Go Thorns!
Learn more athamptonlumber or follow us on Facebook:@HamptonLumber. You can also learn about our company and our priorities by visiting our blog.
EEO Statement
Hampton Lumber is an equal opportunity employer: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability protected veteran status age or any other status protected by law.
Disability accommodation available: If you are an individual with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation in the application or hiring process please contact the Human Resources Office for the location you are applying.
Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.
For more information about our commitment to equal employment opportunity please see these government posters: EEO is the Law and its accompanying temporary supplement.
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