Industrial Network Infrastructure Specialist

4 weeks ago


Guelph, Ontario, Canada Recurrent Energy Full time

Job Title: Industrial Network Infrastructure Specialist

Department: Information Technology

Reports to: Senior Plant Infrastructure Manager

Location: Guelph, ON (Hybrid)

Position Summary:

Recurrent Energy is seeking an experienced Industrial Network Infrastructure Specialist to implement, operate, and support scalable network solutions for our plant infrastructure. This role will involve reviewing, analyzing, and recommending network improvements to ensure the network can scale with the needs of our applications and services.

Responsibilities:

  • Gather and review end customer network requirements for connecting various control, SCADA, and utility systems.
  • Plan and execute approved network designs in a specific change window.
  • Monitor and optimize network performance and ensure network security in a high availability environment.
  • Troubleshoot, diagnose, and resolve hardware, software, and other network and system problems in a prompt and timely manner.
  • Recommend upgrades and replacement cycles to ensure high availability of the network infrastructure, including developing and implementing a scheduled maintenance plan.
  • Write technical design and maintain build documentation for the network infrastructure.
  • Enforce and execute user policies and procedures regarding the use of network resources.
  • Use Wire Shark to perform packet capture and analysis for troubleshooting network and system issues.
  • Document network knowledge base and operational 'Run- Book.'
  • 15% travel required as necessary.

Leadership:

  • Demonstrate clarity of thinking to work through limited information and vague problem definitions.
  • Influence through others; build direct and 'behind the scenes' support for ideas.
  • Proactively identify and remove project obstacles or barriers on behalf of the team.
  • Share knowledge, power, and credit, establishing trust, credibility, and goodwill.

Personal Attributes:

  • Able to work well with global teams, including time-zone flexibility.
  • Ability to deliver results in a rapidly changing dynamic environment.
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, including the ability to communicate effectively with both business and technical audiences.
  • Organized and self-motivated with an ability to prioritize and manage demanding workload.

Requirements:

  • 5+ years of experience in a production industrial or manufacturing networking infrastructure.
  • Experience with Cisco, Fortinet, and Palo Alto Networks firewall services, including IPSEC VPN, URL filtering, firewall policies, and IDS/IPS.
  • Extensive experience in IP networking, L2/L3 network protocols (spanning-tree, OSPF, BGP), TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, end-to-end QOS/COS (focused on industrial real-time protocols), VLAN, HSRP, VRRP, NAT/NATP, LACP, EVPN with VXLAN, ACLS, application flow, infrastructure cabling, VPN- IPsec Tunnels, MPLS VPN, SDWAN, segmentation, Purdue model philosophy, along with hands-on experience managing Enterprise WANs.
  • Extensive experience with multi-vendor industrial switching technologies, including Cisco, Hirschmann, Siemens, Beckhoff, Moxa, N-Tron, and similar industrial switches and PLCs.
  • Working experience with industrial protocols, such as CIP Ethernet/IP, PROFINET, BACnet, EtherCAT, Modbus, REP, MRP, HSR, and similar protocols.
  • Working experience with distributed control system (DCS) networks in a manufacturing environment, including Ignition, Honeywell, Emerson, ABB, or similar.
  • Experience with various tools, such as Protocol Analyzer, Wireshark, SNMP, Netflow, IPAM, RADIUS, Splunk, network taps, SPAN ICS scanners (Claroty, Teneble, etc.).
  • Experience with developing scripts to automate infrastructure deployment and collect metrics (Salt, Ansible, Python, Shell Scripting).
  • CCNP, CCNA, CCIE, and FORTINET Industrial certifications preferred.
  • Physical routers - Cisco routers and switches.
  • OT DNS & IPAM solutions.
  • Experience managing server environments, working knowledge of Server hardware, software, and operating Systems, platform configuration, VMware, Directory Service Technologies, OT cybersecurity, and systems management tools is a plus.

Education and Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science.
  • 5-8 years of experience is required.
  • Strong background with network and firewalling technologies, including configuring, managing, and monitoring, troubleshooting routing protocols, subnetting, and access controls and traffic shaping.
  • Good written and verbal communication skills (English).

Compensation and Benefits:

Recurrent Energy offers a competitive salary.

Recurrent Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, or veteran status.



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