Edge WAN Engineer

At Eaton we are modernizing the way we use data to accelerate our digital transformation. Join our Information Technology team and help positively impact our business through leading technologies, exciting and challenging enterprise projects, and new platforms. We are transforming to a Product Centric Organization utilizing Agile practices to help us work more incrementally and fluidly, allowing us to respond more quickly to changing business needs. We are currently seeking an Edge WAN Engineer to join our Infrastructure Services organization. The candidate can be based out of any Eaton facility in the United States.

Position Overview:

This role will be focused on designing, building, delivering, and maintaining WAN solutions to address business and technical requirements, leveraging industry and standard principles and patterns. Potential candidates should have strong knowledge of Cisco/Velo WAN/SD-WAN/LAN technologies and experience not only maintaining- but designing WAN solutions. Making what matters work at Eaton takes the passion of every employee around the world. We create an environment where creativity, invention and discovery become reality, each and every day. It’s where bold, bright professionals like you can reach your full potential—and where you can help us reach ours.

In this function you will:

• Designs, builds, delivers, and maintains WAN solutions to meet customer requirements, and leads overall efforts in working with cross-functional teams.

• Implements processes, standards, and governance of wide area network environments.

• Provides subject matter expertise and leadership of network technologies contributing to integrated solution designs, development, and implementation.

• Evaluates industry technologies to shape design of services in consideration of cost, portability, compatibility, or usability factors.

• Identifies and makes appropriate changes to technologies, integrated platforms, and systems to meet customer and operational requirements.

• Monitors Wide Area Networks and WAN hardware to ensure required performance, availability, and capacity. Eliminates gaps in monitoring, reduces potential impact on service delivery, and proposes new key performance metrics.

• Performs service restoration for the WAN as required. As a senior WAN engineer, candidate will provide escalated level support for occurrences of service interruption working with 3rd party partners and Eaton internal support staff.

• Continuously seeks to manage and utilize technology, platforms, and systems more efficiently.

• Highlights design risks, provide alternative options, and recommend quality solution to specified problem.

• Strong ability to document and set standards.

• Evaluates, tests, and proposes new WAN solutions and designs.

• Mentors, guides, and influences others, acting as a technology thought leader.

• Participates as an SME on WAN projects up to an enterprise-level deployment.

• Sets project implementation approach for team, customer, and external supplier activities and deliverables.

When we embrace the different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds that make each of us unique, we — as individuals and as a company — are stronger.

Qualifications

Required (Basic) Qualifications:

• High school diploma required.

• A minimum of 7 years of IT Network experience.

• No relocation is provided for this position. Candidates must reside within a 50-mile radius of any Eaton location in the United States to be considered for this opportunity.

• Candidate must be authorized to work in the United States on a continuous basis without company sponsorship.

• This position requires use of information or access to hardware which is subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). All applicants must be U.S. persons within the meaning of ITAR. ITAR defines a U.S. person as a U.S. Citizen, U.S. Permanent Resident (i.e. 'Green Card Holder'), Political Asylee, or Refugee.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Cisco CCNP/CCIE highly preferred.

• SD-WAN certifications with Tier-1 vendors such as Velocloud/Viptella highly preferred.

• Experience working for or directly with telecommunications Service Providers highly preferred.

• Bachelors or Associates degree from an accredited institution required.

Position Criteria:

• Experience in Cisco network centric LAN & WAN environments: Very experienced in designing, supporting, and delivering complex Layer 3 connectivity concepts and solutions.

• Experience engineering, delivering, and supporting Cisco IOS and IOS-XE based routing platforms (ISR, ISRG2, ISR4K, ASR).

• Strong knowledge of complex network routing protocols such as BGP and OSPF.

• Thorough comprehension of Layer 3 QoS concepts.

• Strong work history of designing and maintaining MPLS WAN environments.

• Experience in delivery and configuration of WAN solutions such as DMVPN, IPsec, IWAN.

• Experience Designing, deploying, and maintaining SD-WAN solutions such as VeloCloud, Viptella, Silverpeak.

• Experience with WAN environments utilizing Zscaler technologies highly preferred.

• Experience interfacing with Cloud solutions such as Azure, AWS, O365.

• Experience with WAN acceleration technologies such as Riverbed.

• Excellent proficiency with the English language (written and verbal).

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

At Eaton, we strive to provide compensation and benefits that attract, engage, and retain the best talent. This includes competitive pay and a variety of benefit programs for eligible employees.

The expected annual salary range for this role is $101,250 - $148,500 a year.

Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

We know that good benefit programs are important to employees and their families. Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits, and several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work. Click here for more detail: Eaton Benefits Overview ([ Link removed ] - Click here to apply to Edge WAN Engineer . Please note that specific programs and options available to an employee may depend on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

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Eaton is an intelligent power management company dedicated to improving the quality of life and protecting the environment for people everywhere. We are guided by our commitment to do business right, to operate sustainably and to help our customers manage power ─ today and well into the future. By capitalizing on the global growth trends of electrification and digitalization, we’re accelerating the planet’s transition to renewable energy, helping to solve the world’s most urgent power management challenges, and doing what’s best for our stakeholders and all of society. Founded in 1911, Eaton has been listed on the NYSE for nearly a century. We reported revenues of $19.6 billion in 2021 and serve customers in more than 170 countries.

Our culture is built on a strong commitment to practicing our core values and supporting our employees with the tools they need to succeed. We have demonstrated our passion for sustainability with the announcement of cutting carbon emissions from the company’s operations by at least 50 percent by 2030.

Eaton is committed to having a workforce that is diverse and non-discriminatory at all levels, reflecting the diversity of our customers and the varied environments in which we conduct business around the world. Our success depends on our ability to attract and retain the very best people unlimited by race, color, social or economic status, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any protected status. Eaton follows relevant non-discrimination laws and regulations in the countries where we operate. It is the policy of the Company to make all decisions regarding employment, including hiring, compensation, training, promotions, transfers, or lay-offs, based on the principle of equal employment opportunity as defined above.

Job: Information Technology

Region: North America – US/Puerto Rico

Organization: Corporate Sector

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Schedule: Full-time

Is remote work (i.e. working from home or another Eaton facility) allowed for this position?: Yes – Hybrid

Does this position offer relocation?: No

Travel: Yes, 10 % of the Time

Salary : $101,250 - $148,500