Communications Engineer Senior jobs in the United States

About Signode:

With over $2B in revenue, 80 manufacturing facilities across 6 continents and over 9,000 employees worldwide, Signode is a leading manufacturer of a broad spectrum of transit packaging consumables, tools, software, and equipment that optimize end-of-line packaging operations and protect products in transit. Signode brings this extensive product portfolio together under hundreds of trusted brands to offer complete transit packaging solutions to its customers.

We produce strap, stretch and protective packaging. We also manufacture packaging tools and equipment used to apply the bulk packaging materials. These commercial packaging products are used to pack, bundle, unitize, protect and secure goods during warehousing and transit. Our company is a pioneer in the industrial packaging sector with a long history of customer-focused innovations in materials, processes and automation technology that have revolutionized the sector.

Headquartered in Tampa, Florida, we are proud to be the Transit Packaging Division of Crown Holdings, Inc. We are excited to go to market as Signode and to share the portfolio of products, services and capabilities that make us the world’s premier end-of-line packaging company.

Benefits:

Signode offers a comprehensive benefits package to full-time employees, which includes health, dental, vision, 401k, paid time off, life insurance, wellness perks, and more. Benefits begin the month following the hire date.

Salary: 

•  We offer a competitive salary with a range of $112,853.90 - $141,399.72 based on experience and skill set.

•  This position is eligible to participate in the Signode annual bonus program with a target of 10% of base salary.

SUMMARY

The Signode technology is a global team leveraging a hybrid operating model of traditional on-premise infrastructure and private and public cloud-based solutions. The Cloud Services team supports all sites, data centers, and global cloud environments. The Sr. Systems Engineer is responsible for acquiring and applying core system engineering and administration practices to maintain and improve our systems. The Sr. Systems Engineer also performs activities associated with various projects to meet the corporate, department, and team goals. Helps in design, implementation, performing operational activities, documenting the process, completing task assignments, and engaging with vendors to support the systems and project initiatives.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Essential Functions:

• Takes ownership of assigned systems per project assignment or designated operational areas and shows mastery as the subject matter expert (SME)

• Perform Tier 1 Application Support including: Buildout of IIS or Web Services, Application Management of SQL Servers and Databases, Understanding and support of Client Services for any Client Application process.

• Ensures all systems in ownership are stable, secure, well maintained, and documented (Inventory, Backups, Monitoring, Patching)

• Assists in the development of standards around the products of ownership.

• Actively participates and owns changes in the change management process understanding the risk and impact of any changes made to our underlying customer base and communicating and coordinating as necessary.

• Brings forth new ideas to simplify and standardize for better supportability and strategically align with the corporate goal of One Signode

• Assists in developing short, medium, and long-term plans to achieve strategic objectives.

• Ensures department objectives are met by regularly interacting across functional areas, including senior management or executives as needed.

• Administers and optimizes hosts and servers to ensure high availability and appropriate resource management.

• Takes care to standardize and automate processes and monitoring using scripting technology.

• Installs and configures operating systems, software, and hardware components and documents the design, maintenance, and support procedures for routine tasks to leverage IT support staff.

• Manages and monitors infrastructure and system installations, including configurations, testing, and maintenance.

• Conducts root-cause analysis for service interruptions and establishes preventive measures.

• Creates reports and documentation outlining findings and solutions.

• Implements and maintains backups, security, and redundancy strategies.

• Enables faster and more intelligent business processes and implements analytics where it renders meaningful.

• Accountable for implementing SOX compliant changes following the change management process defined to provide governance of Infrastructure Operations

• Participates in SOX audits, working closely with various supporting departments.

• Adheres to standards, best practices, and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) between IT and the Business Infrastructure Services

• Acts responsibly in the management of operational costs.

• Remains current on industry trends and strategic development in technology to create revenue, reduce costs or take advantage of new business opportunities.

POSITION QUALIFICATIONS

Education:

• Certifications in one or more areas of IT system administration (MCSE, VMware Certified Professional, Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals, M365 Enterprise Administrator Expert, etc.)

Experience / Abilities:

• 5 years of proven mastery and experience in hands-on IT engineering technology role

• 5 years’ experience and mastery in Active Directory Services (DNS, Sites and Services, DFS Namespace, Schema, AD Attributes, Domain Trusts, Group Policy, FSMO Roles, DHCP, etc.)

• 5 years of experience with server and system management, virtualization, VPN, security, backups, and system recovery showing clear mastery in these areas.

• 1-3 years of experience with Azure AD a strong plus (AD Connect and Sync Services, Account Roles, Group Provisioning, etc.)

• Utilizes ITIL and ISO best practices.

• Working knowledge and experience managing hybrid cloud environments (onpremises/off-premises/private & public clouds) - Azure experience a strong plus

• DevOps, orchestration, automation, or digitalization a strong plus

• Proven database administration skills

• Proven ability to successfully participate on a globally diverse team and achieve collective goals and objectives.

• Listening, drawing out key concepts, and articulating advanced technical and nontechnical ideas with ease (both written and oral formats) to customers, peers, and management at several levels and across the organization with minimal oversight

• Experience in selecting and managing outside vendors who serve outsourced roles in the department.

• Experience with remote management of servers, server consolidation, migration of legacy Window server environments, deployment of new servers in Azure/Datacenter, system, and resource optimization

• Familiar with application support, application upgrades, and end-user support

• Proven ability to follow Enterprise Architecture principles and best practices.

• Shows working knowledge of TCP/IP Networks and OSI model.

• Fluent in English, both written and spoken. Other languages are a plus in our global company.

Reasonable Accommodation Statement

To perform this job successfully, the individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  Reasonable Accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities.

The Company has reviewed this job description to ensure that essential functions and basic duties have been included. It is intended to provide guidelines for job expectations and the employee's ability to perform the position described. It is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all functions, responsibilities, skills and abilities. Additional functions and requirements may be assigned by supervisors as deemed appropriate. This document does not represent a contract of employment, and the Company reserves the right to change this job description and/or assign tasks for the employee to perform, as the Company may deem appropriate.

Signode Industrial Group, LLC is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.