Network Administrator II

Improving America’s infrastructure isn’t for the weak. It takes grit, determination, and hard work to execute high impact projects. Michels Corporation engages 8,000 people and 18,000 pieces of heavy equipment in our insatiable drive to be the best. Our work improves lives. Find out how a career as a IT Technical Architect II (Cloud Operations) can change yours.

 

A Network Administrator II implements and maintains corporate network equipment environments for the local, wireless, and wide area network infrastructure. Implements moderate to high-risk network changes to critical functional areas while following established designs and configurations. Critical for success are professional management and communication skills. Must be able to work in a team environment.

Why Michels?

• Maintain and promote a strong health, safety, environment, and quality (HSEQ) culture for all employees, vendors, subcontractors, and customers to comply with HSEQ policies, procedures, regulations, and continual improvement objectives. Identify and communicate workplace hazards and risks with a commitment to correct or seek assistance in correcting unsafe or nonconforming actions or conditions.
• We are consistently ranked among the top 10% of Engineering News-Record’s Top 400 Contractors
• Our steady, strategic growth revolves around a commitment to quality
• We are family owned and operated
• We invest an average of $5,000 per employee on training each year
• We reward hard work and dedication with limitless opportunities
• We believe it is everyone’s responsibility to promote safety, regardless of job titles.
• We offer a comprehensive benefits program, including Health, Dental, Life, Flexible Spending Accounts, Health Savings Account, Short Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance, 401(k) plan, Legal Plan, and Identity Theft and Monitoring Plan.  Depending on your positions and location you may participate in a different benefit plan. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintain and promote a strong safety culture for all employees, vendors, and customers and follow all health, safety and environmental policies, procedures, and regulations. Identify and communicate workplace hazards and correct or seek assistance in correcting unsafe actions or conditions. 
• Maintains the WAN, LAN, and WLAN, following change management procedures. 
• Support remote offices and jobsites for setup, connectivity, and teardown. 
• Support technical initiatives and projects. 
• Review current and emerging technologies, recommending solutions to solve business needs. 
• Technical project leader for small size projects.  
• Research and provide input into recommendations and justifies various hardware and software purchases and participates in determining hardware, software, and administrative standards and procedures.
• Participate in on-call rotation.  
• Act as a point of escalation for Service Desk incidents and requests. 
• Monitor and tune network performance and monitor network availability. 
• Troubleshoot and document issues and participate in root-cause analysis of all network environments. 
• Other duties as assigned. 

Qualifications and Skills

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology of similar field, 3-5 years of related experience, or an equivalent combination  
• Proficient with Microsoft Office, virtual environments, and the two latest versions of Microsoft Windows 
• Competent with configuring network switches and routers 
• Competent with network cabling standards 
• Experience in routing protocols: EIGRP, BGP, and OSPF 

Desired Qualifications:

• Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) certification or JCNIA 
• Cisco Meraki experience 
• Experience with protocol analyzers and bandwidth utilization reports
• Familiar with deploying VPN and IPSec tunnels 
• Participation in large-scale IT business initiatives