Intern - Network Operations

Overview

Americold provides temperature-controlled warehousing and transportation to food producers, restaurants, schools and retail outlets such as grocery stores. We're proud to provide an essential link in the food industry supply chain and to help put food on tables around the world. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, Americold owns and operates temperature-controlled warehouses around the world. We have over 16,000 associates and offer a wide variety of career opportunities - from warehouse forklift operators and supervisors to accounting, administration, business development, customer support, engineering, transportation, and technology solutions positions.

Responsibilities

Primary Responsibility: As Network Operations intern, you will assist the Americold Network Operations team and Network Manager to develop reports to analyze bandwidth utilization, review critical switches logs, help with SD-WAN deployment, plan for circuit upgrades and evaluate the current alerting strategy configured in Americold monitoring system. Collaborate with the Network Operation and Hosting teams to review network documentation including IP tracking of the physical network. Essential Functions: • Create technical reports based on utilization trends, that project when a circuit upgrade may be required. Identify opportunities for improvement within the current SolarWinds environment • Actively participate in project meetings and work with Infrastructure managers in requirements gathering sessions. • Works with Network manager to build technical specifications and present business requirements to IT partners to ensure technical specifications accurately reflect business needs. • Work with the network Engineers to create and review bandwidth reports. Revise and update where needed and create new documents where there are gaps. Centralize all documentation into one organized location for the team the access • Learn the current network alerting and monitoring setup. • Evaluate and recommend improvements on the current network and alerting system to make them more intuitive and actionable. • Document all work relative to alerting strategy.

Qualifications

Qualifications & Experience: • Pursuing Bachelors or Master of Science degree in Computer Science or equivalent • Exposure to Microsoft Office (Visio) and Microsoft Office • Exposure in the following areas: Networking concepts, desire to learn about, routing and switching (Cisco), Network design concepts, IPV4 subnetting Knowledge & Employment Standards: • Excellent written and oral communication skills. • Effective presentation, documentation and report writing skills. • Demonstrated planning, task organizing and execution skills. • Ability to work in team-oriented environment. • Working knowledge of applicable hardware platforms. • Ability to complete work deadlines Physical Requirements & Abilities: The physical demands described below are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job. • Requires the ability to sit for long periods of time, with frequent interruptions • Requires several hours per day of sitting, getting up and down from chairs, and reaching, or bending • Requires manual dexterity with normal hand and finger movements for typical office work • Talking, hearing, and seeing are important elements of completing assigned tasks • May require travel by automobile and airplane up for business • May require a visit facility operation in temperatures at or below freezing • May carry loads related to travel and occasionally lifts, carries, positions, or moves objects weighing up to 20 pounds • Requires the use of various electronic tools • Requires the ability to relate to others beyond giving and receiving instructions: must partner with colleagues without exhibiting behavioral extremes • Requires the performance of work activities including reasoning, negotiating, instructing, persuading, or speaking with others; and respond appropriately to constructive feedback from executive management Americold is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer EOE/AA M/F/D/V DFW

Responsibilities:

Primary Responsibility:As Network Operations intern, you will assist the Americold Network Operations team and Network Manager to develop reports to analyze bandwidth utilization, review critical switches logs, help with SD-WAN deployment, plan for circuit upgrades and evaluate the current alerting strategy configured in Americold monitoring system. Collaborate with the Network Operation and Hosting teams to review network documentation including IP tracking of the physical network. Essential Functions:•Create technical reports based on utilization trends, that project when a circuit upgrade may be required. Identify opportunities for improvement within the current SolarWinds environment•Actively participate in project meetings and work with Infrastructure managers in requirements gathering sessions. •Works with Network manager to build technical specifications and present business requirements to IT partners to ensure technical specifications accurately reflect business needs. •Work with the network Engineers to create and review bandwidth reports. Revise and update where needed and create new documents where there are gaps. Centralize all documentation into one organized location for the team the access•Learn the current network alerting and monitoring setup. •Evaluate and recommend improvements on the current network and alerting system to make them more intuitive and actionable.•Document all work relative to alerting strategy.