Senior Associate IT Engineer Network

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.

Main tasks:

• Under general supervision, this position will support, maintain, and configure Global communications infrastructure. 
• Manage and help implement LAN/WLAN architecture.
• Schedules and performs installations and upgrades by established policies and procedures.
• Conduct MAC (moves, adds, and changes) as requested.
• Coordinating and performing telecommunications setup and add/moves/changes in a VoIP environment. This includes local and remote changes for VoIP programming (Cisco), and SIP Trucking.
• Provides increased levels of performance utilizing advanced features such as QOS, VLANs, OSPF, BGP, HSRP, etc.
• This position will support our plants/offices globally. Travel to these plants may be required
• Installs, configures, monitors, and maintains network firewalls, modifying existing rule bases according to established policies.
• Conduct MAC (moves, adds and changes) as requested
• Creates 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.
• Research 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)
• Conduct MAC (moves, adds, and changes) as requested.
• Creates on-site documentation for local IT to be able to better support devices at their locations.
• Work with Principle Engineer Network to develop/enhance procedures for LAN/PLC/Firewall administration (e.g. security, reliability)

We are looking for:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent work experience.
• Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) or equivalent experience.
• 3 - 7 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 environments.
• Knowledge and experience dealing with data providers.
• Experience in effectively communicating with a broad base of end users and multiple management layers.
• 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 of 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).
• Should be familiar with Telco tools, such as toners, punch-down tools, and others. 
• Project Management experience a plus. 

What we offer:

• The 13-th salary – Paid once a year, in December;
• Meal tickets - With a value of 40 Ron;
• Hybrid schedule – Work-life balance is important, so we offer a flexible schedule. Please agree on this with your superior;
• Private Health Insurance – Health is the most important, so we offer you a medical subscription through Signal Iduna;
• Referral bonuses - We encourage colleagues to refer new candidates to us and, at the same time, to get the chance to receive a bonus;
• Bookster – Feed your body and your mind. You can borrow books and you'll receive them at the office;
• Sports benefits- It's important to stay active, so we offer you the 7Card;
• Discounts at our partners – We collaborate with different vendors, and we receive discounts for various products/ services like rubbers, restaurants, kindergartens etc;
• System for Rewarding Improvement Ideas – We have an internal improvement program (Continental Idea Management) that allows you to come up with ideas and to be honored with an attractive bonus (the CIM team establishes this according to your improvement idea);
• Happy days – If you or your child is getting married, or you become a parent, you receive some extra free days;
• Life events celebration - If your family is growing, we praise your newborn with a bonus;
• Unfortunate events - In case of unhappy events in your life, we support you by offering you free days and financial support (handled on a case-by-case basis);
• Extra vacation days – You begin with 22 vacation days/year, and starting with the 3rd year with us, we offer you 1 more day of vacation and, afterward from 2 to 2 years you'll get one more extra day (the maximum you can achieve is 27);
• Transport from the Timisoara area – You can choose to come with the bus provided by the company if you work from the plant location/office;
• Professional development - There are many opportunities to develop yourself within the company;
• Diversity and multicultural mindset - We encourage you to join us no matter who, where, or what you are. We have colleagues from different nations and various languages are spoken in our company.

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