Senior Network Engineer - Manufacturing OT Networks
The Senior Network Engineer will play a critical role in redesigning and modernizing plant level IT and OT networks with a strong emphasis on security segmentation resiliency and performance. The ideal candidate has deep experience supporting manufacturing or industrial environments and is comfortable working directly with plant operations and process engineering teams.
Manufacturing environments similar to industrial energy or heavy manufacturing operations are ideal backgrounds for this role.
* Assess current state plant IT and OT network architectures across multiple manufacturing sites
* Design and implement future state plant network architectures including IT and OT segmentation
* Break apart and rationalize legacy or flat networks to improve security posture resiliency performance and availability
* Configure and deploy VLANs routing switching and firewalls in OT environments
* Implement secure connectivity between IT and OT domains
* Partner closely with process engineering teams plant operations controls engineers and infrastructure and security leadership
* Perform hands on implementation of network changes in live manufacturing environments
* Establish and document repeatable standards and best practices for plant networking
* Support remediation of operational issues and network related incidents
* Contribute to long term standardization efforts across all plant locations
* IT and OT network segmentation and industrial network design
* Manufacturing plant networking including VLANs firewalls routing and switching in OT environments
* Network security in industrial and OT environments
* Hands on implementation and troubleshooting in production settings
* Experience supporting plant floor systems and process engineering teams
* Extensive hands on experience in manufacturing and OT network environments
* Cisco ecosystem proficiency including switches and wireless access points
* Palo Alto firewall experience
* Ability to quickly assess legacy environments bring order to chaos and establish standards
* Ability to work independently with minimal ramp up
* Ability to travel up to 25% to manufacturing plants in the US and Mexico
* SolarWinds or similar network monitoring tools
* AWS Direct Connect experience
* Familiarity with Cisco AI driven network management tools
* Senior level network engineer or architect with deep OT experience
* Comfortable working directly on plant floors and in live production environments
* Execution focused pragmatic and outcome driven
* Experienced in modernizing legacy manufacturing networks without disrupting operations
About Korn Ferry
Korn Ferry unleashes potential in people, teams, and organizations. We work with our clients to design optimal organization structures, roles, and responsibilities. We help them hire the right people and advise them on how to reward and motivate their workforce while developing professionals as they navigate and advance their careers. To learn more, please visit Korn Ferry at www.Kornferry.com
