Early Career IT Infrastructure Network Engineer

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Texas Instruments is seekingan IT Network Engineer to plan architect design budget and implement LAN Wireless and WAN network solutions for its Manufacturing and Enterprise locations across multiple platforms and protocols to support TIs business needs. The engineer will also participate in day-to-day operations support as needed.

Responsibilities include:

• Gathering customer and system connectivity requirements used as inputs into building resilient network solutions.
• Coordinating with stakeholders/suppliers/vendors both internal and external to ensure on-time project delivery.
• Ownership of factory design datacenter and sales office network documentation and plans for their area(s) of the infrastructure.
• Collaborating to develop technology roadmaps considering business ne eds and in alignment to overall IT strategies.
• Supporting and troubleshooting network faultsduring break/fix activities and events.
• Periodic review of network capacity usage and health metrics for respective area(s) of responsibility to plan for upgrades or performance adjustments.
• Collaborating with other IT groups to understand the future requirements for network capacity at TIs locations.

What we will look for:

• Ability to establish strong relationships with key stakeholders critical to success both internally and externally.
• Engineering and architecture skills necessary to interpretbusinessrequirements and needs to deliver new network solutions.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to quickly ramp on new systems and processes.
• Demonstrated strong interpersonal conflict management analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to take the initiative and drive for resultsrequiring little day-to-day direction.
• Strong technical background in network operations and business engagements in a highly complex global enterprise.
• Strongprioritizationtime managementand negotiation skillsthat enable on-time project delivery.
• Ability to travel and provide after-hours and/or weekend support duties as scheduled or deemed necessary during implementation of network engineering projects.
• Experience in working effectively with globally diverse cross-functional teams.
• Experience with following suppliers - Cisco LAN & WAN Arista LAN & WANAruba Wireless.
• Ability to understand diagnose and quickly fix complex network infrastructure issues across TI.
• Deep understanding of routing protocols OSPF & BGP and how they are deployed in large corporate environments.

Minimum requirements:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering or relevant technical field
• 3-5 years of work experience responsible for designing deploying and operating large-scale networks
• Experience learning network automation software frameworks and APIs

Preferred qualifications:

• Current CCNP (Cisco Certified Network Professional)certification or equivalent.
• Deep understanding and hands-on experiencewith Arista campus and datacenter architecture including Spine and Leaf topologies.
• Proven ability to implement and managenetwork segmentation and micro-segmentation strategies.
• Familiarity with Software-Defined Networking (SDN)concepts and practical application.
• Understanding network automation tools specifically CVP CVAAS and AVD.
• Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) demonstrated through experience with Python Ansible and Terraform.
• Experience in cloud architecture (AWS GCP Azure) particularly with cloud connectivity solutions like VPN and Direct Connect.