Senior Associate IT Engineer Network (m/f/diverse) - REF52228A

Continental develops pioneering technologies and services for sustainable and connected mobility of people and their goods. Founded in 1871, the technology company offers safe, efficient, intelligent and affordable solutions for vehicles, machines, traffic and transportation. In 2022, Continental generated sales of €39.4 billion and currently employs around 200,000 people in 57 countries and markets.

The ContiTech group sector develops and manufactures, for example, cross-material, environmentally friendly and intelligent products and systems for the automotive industry, railway engineering, mining, agriculture and other key industries. Guided by the vision of “smart and sustainable solutions beyond rubber,” the group sector draws on its long-standing knowledge of the industry and materials to open up new business opportunities by combining various materials with electronic components and individual services. 

Under general supervision, this position will support, maintain, and configure Global communications infrastructure. 

Your tasks include:

• Manage and help implement LAN/WLAN architecture
• Schedule and perform installations and upgrades in accordance with established policies and procedures
• Conduct MAC (moves, adds and changes) as requested
• Coordinate and perform telecommunications setup and adds/moves/changes in a VoIP environment. This includes both local and remote changes for VoIP programming (Cisco), SIP Trunking
• Provide increased levels of performance utilizing advanced features such as QOS, VLANs, OSPF, BGP, HSRP, etc.
• Support our Plants/Offices globally. Travel to these plants may be required
• Install, configure, monitor and maintain network firewalls, making modifications to existing rule bases according to established policies
• Create on-site documentation for local IT to be able to better support devices at their locations
• Monitor and control network performance in the areas of response, throughput and availability
• Plan maintenance and release upgrades on a timely basis
• Reseach specific products as necessary, participating in tool and vendor evaluations
• Work with Principle Engineer Network to develop/enhance procedures for LAN/WLAN/Firewall administration (e.g. security, reliability)

• Academic degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or comparable qualification
• Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) or equivalent experience
• Several years of related experience maintaining large enterprise infrastructure/network environments, performing hardware and software network engineering and implementing LANs, WLANs
• Switching/Routing experience
• Extensive experience working in large-scale data center/Global LAN environment
• Knowledge and experience dealing with data providers
• A thorough knowledge of LAN and WLAN architectures and routing protocols, and a thorough working knowledge of Internet protocols and services (TCP/IP, WWW, FTP, TELNET, SSH, SNMP, etc.)
• Working knowledge of TACACS/RADIUS
• Basic knowledge on Cisco ISEs
• Experience with implementation and administration of network devices such as routers, switches and firewalls – preferably Cisco based
• Excellent ability to create detailed physical and logical network diagrams and design documents. Advanced knowledge of Visio.
• Knowledge and hands-on experience with a full range of layer 1-7 technologies and protocols (advanced layer2; redundancy protocols, advanced OSPF, BGP, and other routing protocols, advanced layer4-7 load-balancing, security, content management, and other technologies)
• Experience with Telco tools, such as toners, punch-down tools, and others 
• Project Management experience desirable
• Business fluent English and german language skills (spoken and written)
• Experience in effectively communicating with a broad base of end users and multiple management layers

Applications from severely handicapped people are welcome.

The well-being of our employees is important to us. That's why we offer exciting career prospects and support you in achieving a good work-life balance with additional benefits such as:

•Training opportunities

•Mobile and flexible working models

•Sabbaticals

•and much more...

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