Network Engineer jobs in Ann Arbor, MI

Cloud Network Engineer

 *THIS IS A IN-PERSON POSITION, LOCATED AT OUR NOVI, MICHIGAN HEADQUARTERS*

POSITION SUMMARY

As a Cloud Network Engineer with MMPA, you will add provision, deploy, configure, and administer various security-related hardware and software including Windows Servers, Hyper-V, Azure Cloud, O365 Administration, SD-WAN, firewalls, routers, switches, and various network monitoring tools. Perform network-based security risk assessments, help design new infrastructure solutions as the association expands or replaces its system architecture.

Who are we? 

The Michigan Milk Producers Association (MMPA) – established in 1916 – is a dairy farmer-owned and operated milk marketing cooperative and dairy processor. As the 10th largest dairy cooperative in the U.S., MMPA serves dairy farmers throughout Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, and Indiana.

In addition to our Middlebury Cheese Company, and Superior Dairy, MMPA operates two SQF Level 3 dairy ingredient plants in Michigan. Products made at MMPA’s plants include fluid milk, cheese, ultra-filtered milk, ice cream, butter, nonfat dry milk, cream, and condensed skim milk.

What we Offer

• Competitive Salary
• Medical/Dental/Vision
• 401k/Pension
• PTO
• VPP- Annual Bonus Plan

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Monitor and log security concerns and incidents and generate reports and track performance.
• Maintain physical and virtual environment to protect servers, switches, and entire information technology system while balancing overall load.
• Maintain firewall, virtual private network, web, and email security programs, protocols, and security.
• Document current network environment including device mapping, VLAN attributes, and security protocol implementations and maintain future documentation throughout infrastructure changes.
• Handling and troubleshooting issues with NAT.
• Configure and maintain private cloud initiatives (Azure/AWS/O365)
• Troubleshooting DNS/DHCP issues within the network
• Involved in troubleshooting network traffic and its diagnosis using toolsets such as Wireshark, SolarWinds, and TCP dump.
• IP subnetting and various designing and allocating classes of IP address to the domain.
• Configure and deploy QOS and defined class of service (COS) WRED and WFQ for bandwidth management.
• Design and deploy various network security & high availability security products, including Zero Trust networking.

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Bachelor’s degree or required work experience of seven or more years in related cloud infrastructure configuration and management, as well as LAN network configuration.

Knowledge of various PC hardware and software applications including:

• Knowledge of Cisco IOS, Cisco VPN, Zero Trust Network (Zscaler), HP/Aruba, NextGen Firewall Technologies.
• Cloud based services (Azure, AWS).
• Multi-factor Authentication.
• Zero Trust Security.
• Knowledge of switch technologies, Cisco / HP Aruba
• Sound knowledge of routing and switching concepts and MPLS and SD-Wan Design
• Extensive experience in configuring, monitoring, and troubleshooting firewall appliances, failover DMZ zoning & configuring VLANs/routing/NAT with the firewalls.
• SD-WAN deployment and management.
• Effective troubleshooting and documentation skills.
• Exchange Online, MS Teams (VoIP), Intune, Endpoint protection and other associate Microsoft management tools
• Experience creating a customer knowledge base.
• May consider an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Collaborative communication approach.
• Utilize sound judgment.

Personal Skills/Attributes needed:

• Committed to achieve our mission.
• Individual with open and new ideas.
• Demonstrated initiative and desire to learn about the dairy industry.
• Drive change with a positive attitude
• Shows value for different opinions, shows flexibility to different opinions.
• Willing to act in a changing environment.
• Shows passion for growth and development within a team.
• Knowledge of commonly used concepts, practices, and procedures within the IT field
• Working knowledge and troubleshooting skills associated with providing support in a professional corporate environment is preferred.

This job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive list of responsibilities that are required of the role. Responsibilities may change at any time with or without notice.

MMPA provides the opportunity for meaningful work that makes a difference in the dairy industry and in our communities. The diverse talents and perspectives of our employees help us to meet the needs of our member farms and the customers we serve.