Senior Network Engineer

Build a career powered by innovations that matter!  At Novanta, our innovations power technology products that are transforming healthcare and advanced manufacturing—improving productivity, enhancing people’s lives and redefining what’s possible.  We create for our global customers engineered components and sub-systems that deliver extreme precision and performance for a range of mission-critical applications—from minimally invasive surgery to robotics to 3D metal printing.

Novanta is one global team with over 26 offices located in The Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific.  Looking for a great place to work?  You have found it with a culture that embraces teamwork, collaboration and empowerment.  Come explore Novanta.

Company Overview

Build a career powered by innovations that matter!  At Novanta, our innovations power technology products that are transforming healthcare and advanced manufacturing improving productivity, enhancing people’s lives and redefining what’s possible.  We serve as a trusted technology partner to medical and advanced industrial original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) worldwide, engineering components and sub-systems that deliver extreme precision and performance for a range of mission-critical applications from minimally invasive surgery to robotics to 3D metal printing.

Novanta is a global organization with offices located throughout EMEA, The Americas and Asia Pacific.  Novanta is a publicly traded company on NASDAQ under symbol NOVT.

Business Overview

Novanta’s Corporate and Shared Services teams play an important role in executing the company’s strategic mission and operations. Included in Corporate and Shared Services are the business functions including Finance, Accounting, Human Resources, Information Technology, Legal, Compliance, Corporate Development and Corporate Marketing. The Corporate and Shared Services teams work closely with all Novanta business units to support operating initiatives contributing to the organization’s financial success.

Summary

As a Senior Network Engineer, you will play a critical role in designing, implementing, and managing the Novanta global networks, including WAN, Cloud interconnects, and branch office networks. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams, ensuring that network services are built using robust, secure, and scalable best practices. If you’re passionate about cloud infrastructure, enjoy solving complex challenges, and want to contribute to cutting-edge solutions, we encourage you to apply for this exciting role!

Primary Responsibilities

Design and Deployment

• Plan, analyze, and design enterprise-scale network solutions.
• Deploy and configure various enterprise grade hardware firewalls.
• Develop and enforce security policies, procedures, and standards.
• Proficient with network firewall and Network Segmentation frameworks.
• Experience designing and deploying NAC solutions.

Network Management

• Maintain and optimize existing Branch and Cloud network Infrastructure.
• Monitor system performance, troubleshoot issues, and ensure efficient resource utilization.
• Experience with designing, building and managing Cloud Interconnects and VPN solutions for Hybrid cloud workloads.
• Experience managing ISP vendors in support of global backbone.

Operations

• Highly Proficient with layer 3 routing protocols such as BGP and OSPF.
• In-Depth understanding of TCP/IP, and layer 4-7 protocols.
• In-Depth understanding of DDI (DNS, DHCP, IP management).
• Monitor network performance, metrics, and KPI’s.
• Escalation point of contact for teams within IT and Operations.
• Work with 3rd parties to design and implement business initiatives.
• Knowledge and experience with Atlassian JIRA for agile deployment methodologies.
• Datadog Observability platform
• JIRA for ticketing & change management

Documentation & Collaboration

• Maintain comprehensive documentation of infrastructure configurations, processes, and procedures.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including developers, architects, and network engineers.
• Familiar with JIRA and Confluence for planning and implementation
• Familiar with Lucidcharts.

General Tasks

• Maintain strict compliance with the quality, environmental and occupational health and safety regulations and implementation of the instructions of the quality, environmental management and/or occupational health and safety officer.

Required Experience, Education, Skills, Training and Competencies

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
• Highly Proficient with layer 3 routing protocols such as BGP and OSPF.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Ansible, Python, and PERL).
• Strong understanding of networking & security concepts, as well compliance.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Cisco Skills
  • Cisco Security Products
  • Cisco Meraki switching & AP’s
  • Cisco Umbrella
• Palo Alto Network Skills
  • Prisma Access
  • Panorama management

Travel Requirements   

• Travel as needed
   

Physical Requirements

• Mobility to work in a standard office setting and to use standard office equipment, including a computer.
• Ability to use vison to read computer screen and read printed materials

(*) Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR)

Novanta is proud to be an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action workplace. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, military and veteran status, disability, genetics, or any other category protected by federal law or Novanta policy.

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