Network Engineer - Bloomington, IL

Company: Afni, Inc.
Location: Bloomington
Posted on: January 10, 2021

Job Description:

Do you like troubleshooting network issues to get to the root cause? Do you embrace emerging technologies and have a passion to keep learning and make an immediate impact? If so, we have an outstanding opportunity as a Network Engineer and would love to hear from you! Our Network Engineers oversee the design, installation, and support of network communications, including LAN,WAN, IPT/VoIP, Wireless, NMS and Network Security. You will work on problems of diverse scope where analysis of situations requires evaluation and judgment. Some could be critical, large scale infrastructure projects through vendor comparison and cost studies. You will need to rely on your extensive knowledge of LAN,WAN, IPT, Wireless NMS and network security infrastructure, networks, and applications. *Position could be remote for the ideal candidate but would need to travel to our Corporate Headquarters periodically throughout the year.* What you will be doing: * Implement and maintain physical network connectivity to the network interface of external business partners and perform monitoring as well as capacity planning with industry experts to ensure the effectiveness and efficiencies. * Responsible for configuration, installation, and support of network infrastructure for new installations as well as upgrades to existing environments. * Perform software and hardware upgrades including planning, scheduling, testing, and coordination. * Evaluates and reports on new communication technologies to enhance capabilities of the core network. * Administer security issues pertaining to any access including VPN and firewall security. * Assist in the design and development of the network services architecture and implementation of new network infrastructure. Maintain existing systems, ensuring that proper implementation, failure recovery and security procedures are followed. * Identifies deficiencies of both technical issues and business processes, elevates risk to team lead and/or reporting management, and proposes innovative solutions to address issue. * Document accurately new infrastructure implementations and modifications to existing infrastructure.

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