As a Senior Network Engineer with Jacobs, you will work at the forefront of contemporary industrial network design and cybersecurity. Jacobs designs and builds the world’s infrastructure, and you’ll play a key role delivering high-uptime, highly secure networks that enable business operations. As a Network Engineer, you will be responsible for overall leadership in designing, implementing, and maintaining the operational technology (OT) network infrastructure at one of our industrial sites. You will partner with Jacobs Industrial Control Systems (ICS) teams to deliver communication networks that are optimized for reliable automation and business operations. You’ll leverage your understanding of network telecommunications, firewall, Windows OS, and TCP/IP protocols to engineer robust and secure networks of varying sizes and complexity. From resolving interoperability issues across platforms, to supporting the acquisition of hardware, you’ll put your hardware and software talents to good use at Jacobs. As a Senior Engineer, this includes selecting and configuring network hardware and software, such as switches, routers, firewalls, and industrial protocols. You will be responsible for network security and providing monitoring and troubleshooting of performance issues and for resolving network-related problems to minimize downtime.
- This position sets up and maintains networking and control infrastructure in accordance with company standards and works with OT Network Management to provide solutions for maintenance and operations. This includes but is not limited to Process Control Infrastructure and Third Party Vendor Packages
- Create and maintain detailed network diagrams of the manufacturing industrial infrastructure, network, server, cabling, rack level, and logical architecture including procedures and plans to support current and future projects
- Procure equipment per project requirements
- Travel to project sites to provide support of ICS networks, manage and maintain converged platforms, virtualization, networks, security platforms and various other OT/IoT technologies
- Review of network architectures and determining if good practices are being followed and provided recommendations to comply with applicable cybersecurity framework for industrial environment controls
- 5+ years of experience on Industrial control systems (DCS/PLC)
- 5+ years of networking technology knowledge (TCP/IP, routing, or switching)
- Experience working with firewalls and wireless communication technology
- Experience working with virtualization platforms, Active Directory, DNS, and Domain Controller
- Familiarity with IEC-62443 or other industrial cybersecurity standards is a plus
- Cisco CCNA, Fortinet NSE-4, JNCIA or equivalent network certification
- 5+ years of PLC/SCADA and/or DCS network
- Familiarity with IEC-62443 or other industrial cybersecurity standards is a plus
- Knowledge of the Purdue Enterprise Reference Architecture
Preferred:
- Experience with IIoT and edge computing
We offer:
- Unique company culture fostering individual career growth and work-life balance
- Full-time employment contract/b2b contract with salary corresponding to qualifications
- Hybrid working model
- Flexible working hours (we start between 7:30-10:00)
- "Short Fridays” (we work 6h on Friday)
- Flexible benefits package (Lux Med medical care, psychological care, life insurance, My Benefit cafeteria system, including Multisport card co-financing, car park sharing system)
- Membership in Jacobs employee networks (Women's Network, OneWorld, PRISM, Careers Network, Green Team, Toastmasters, Collectively and others)
- Continuous development opportunities, including a range of professional trainings and certifications, Graduate Development Program, Learners’ Community, self-learning platform
- Opportunity to take part in language courses (English, German, Polish)
Please note that in order to be considered for this position you need to be resident in, or willing to relocate to, the country this position is advertised in, and a. have a current right to work visa in that country, or b. be prepared to go through a work visa process if the hiring manager/business unit is willing to accommodate this.
