IT Sr Network Engineer II

Join Our Mission of Enhancing Lives as a Sr Network Engineer at Melaleuca: The Wellness Company!

For over 40 years, Melaleuca has taken this mission statement to heart. It is our guiding principle. Everything we accomplish is done with an eye toward promoting the physical, environmental, financial, and personal wellness of those around us. Our focus has always been on wellness. By innovating and selling effective, high-quality, natural, health-oriented products, we help people live more vibrant, healthier, and happier lives. When you walk through the doors at Melaleuca, you can feel it immediately. This is The Wellness Company. In our more than 40 years of operation, we have achieved consistent and profitable growth, with our revenues consistently exceeding $2+ billion. We now have over 5,000 employees and offices in 12 countries. Melaleuca is positioned to grow even more rapidly in upcoming years. To help keep up with this growth we are adding a Network Engineer to our IT Group.

As a Sr. Network Engineer at Melaleuca, you will play a crucial role in designing, implementing, and maintaining our network infrastructure. You will play a key role on a team of network engineers, provide technical expertise, and ensure the stability and scalability of our network. This position is responsible for high-level network planning, design, configuration, and optimization. This role also provides training to the other engineers on new technologies being implemented.

What you'll do

• Involved in planning, implementing, and supporting network projects, identifying risks, documenting and communicating migration plans to improve our infrastructure
• Provide guidance and direction related to globally diverse traditional and software-defined networking strategies, interconnectivity and best practices
• Work with business stakeholders to define requirements and system goals and identify and resolve business systems issues
• Provide support of existing networks, including configuration of Cisco routers, switches, wireless, remote access, WAN devices and services
• Recommend and implement new technologies to support business needs and improvements through education of peers and business leaders
• Create and maintain accurate and current technical documentation and configurations for all aspects of our global network
• Monitor global network for outages and performance issues, and make tuning adjustments based on results
• Perform preventative maintenance services on all devices within area of responsibility including network hardware/software update scheduling, installing, and testing
• Coordinate with carriers for circuit turn-ups, sizing, procurement, outages and migrations
• Be available for on-call rotation and possible travel when needed
• Manage all tasks and projects, and ensure that all items are tracked in the ticketing system and being handled in a manner that meets or exceeds established OLAs and SLAs
• Promote teamwork within the team and foster cooperation with other groups and departments
• Maintain current knowledge of emerging trends in the network technology market

What You'll Bring:

• 6+ years of hands-on networking and troubleshooting experience in a multiprotocol environment
• 5+ years’ experience maintaining current router and switch technology, and routing protocols (e.g., BGP, MPLS, EIGRP, etc.)
• 4+ years’ experience supporting and testing LANs, VLANs, WLANs, VPNs, NAT devices and DHCP services
• 3+ years’ experience with network security products and protocols (e.g., IPS/IDS, IPSEC VPN)
• CCNP preferred
• Experience with network monitoring, logging, and management platforms (e.g., Solarwinds, Splunk, ThousandEyes, AppDynamics, etc.)
• Experience with Cisco Nexus 9k, 7k, 5k, ISR, ASR
• Experience with Cisco Next Gen Firewalls and Firewall Management Center
• Experience with Meraki wireless
• Demonstrated leadership ability
• Ability to perform essential duties and responsibilities with efficiency and accuracy
• Ability to analyze problems and create solutions·
• Must work independently and professionally
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills·
• Ability to work under stress and work overtime as needed

Melaleuca is the proud 4x recipient of Forbes Best Places to Work in America, and one of the world’s leading Health and Wellness companies. We manufacture over 450 consumer products and sell them directly through a membership-based shopping club. This revolutionary system is changing the way hundreds of thousands of people shop by eliminating middlemen and reducing marketing and distribution costs. This enables the company to spend more on research and high-quality, ecologically-sensible ingredients, while maintaining reasonable prices. We are celebrating our 40th record-setting year. We are proud to be a debt-free company that has never had any layoffs in Company history!