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We know that the achievements of our organization are due to the passion, hard work and creativity of our employees. We celebrate different perspectives to foster excellence across our organization, and our goal is to make diversity a foundation of what we do. We are proudly building an environment where you can bring your authentic self to work.

• Enjoy doing things that people say can’t be done? Innovation is at the center of everything we do.
• Hate red tape? We remove roadblocks instead of creating them.
• Working parent? We provide childcare assistance and paid parental leave.
• Student? We offer continuing education assistance.
• Looking for community? There are many ways to get involved, from Employee Resource Groups to local outreach.

Here’s the Gist:

We are seeking somebody who is dynamic, engaging, confident, has strong stakeholder management skills, is self-motivated and can work independently, reporting to Director IT Operations. This position will report to the Director IT Operations in a hybrid work environment in Durham, NC. You will apply in-depth knowledge of complex networks, security solution components, solutions development to provide Wolfspeed with integrated, secure, reliable, and business appropriate network and security solutions. Individual to work within the Network Operations team and it SMEs and senior engineers to provide key input to technical design, implementation and decision making, along with mentoring technical engineers in the Network Operations Team.

The Day-to-Day:

• Defines, documents, and enforces system standards. Document Global Infra Design - a high-level description, with diagrams, of how the Wolfspeed technologies integrate together.
• Designs are prepared as per the Site Classification. Include Site Decision Matrixes, i.e. how do we decide which Classification a site is, based on number of employees, types of applications used, or business criticality. These templates should be used repeatedly to build networks at each new site.
• Prepare a high level BOM that is used to specify the equipment for each Site Class and also the rate card for standard services.
• Network Design Templates - diagrams for each Site Class. These templates can be used repeatedly to build networks at each new site.
• Provide Options – like types of WAN options that the network architecture will support, for example, MPLS, private lines, SDWAN, and secure tunnels. Include the WAN technologies that would be needed.
• Innovation - Advise on future technology changes that present opportunities for a product. Improving Wolfspeed’s ability to manage its technology cost, and leverage its technology investments
• Define, develop and maintain secure, reliable, and scalable Network services that meet Wolfspeed’s ongoing and evolving business requirements
• Supporting Wolfspeed’s operations and the end-to-end delivery of the services through coordination and interaction with business partners
• Improve proactive management of the environment as demonstrated by continuous reductions in Incidents and the analysis and prevention of Problems and improvement of performance, availability and reliability
• Collaborating with engineers to design and implement servers, storage, containers, network etc. and mentor team members on technical issues.
• Ensure environment is monitored for resource utilization, performance, firmware etc. Report the finding to management with a plan to mitigate the potential issue
• Perform regular tests and audits. Troubleshoot issues and document the resolution
• Delegating maintenance tasks to junior engineers to help increase knowledge
• Developing status reports and sharing with management, Dealing with escalated support issues and driving to resolution
• Develop and maintain complete technical documentation. Communicate with users when needed
• Participate in the Architectural Review Board to validate designs across all areas of technology

• This Job is Right for You if You Have (Minimum Requirements):

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, information systems, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• At least five years of professional experience in networking infrastructure, particularly with LAN/WAN and VLAN, Cisco & Palo Alto technologies
• Have an experience of all network technology including: Cloud, LAN, WAN, Wi-Fi, data centre LAN, SD networks, SDDC, telephony, mobile solutions infrastructure, unified comms, network management solutions, and network specific security and remote access technologies and approaches
• Extensive knowledge of well-known industry standard security enforcement tools such as web and mail filters, IDS and IPS, VRFs, ACLs, NAC, ISE, zero trust, firewalls
• Experience with cloud and network architecture, scripting, and writing protocols.
• Comfortable with computing, frameworks, hybrid cloud, and communications systems.
• Experience with scalability, failover, and IaaS systems and protocols.
• Experience with Cisco IOS and switches.
• CCIE Qualified Network Architect
• Strong Architecture Design skills
• Strong Cloud device configuration experience
• Experience with CISCO & Palo Alto networks
• Ability to work on-call or non-standard business hours as needed
• Ability to deal with complex difficult problems involving multiple facets and variables in non-standardized situations.
• TOGAF trained professional.

• NOTE: This role may require additional duties and/or assignments as designated by management.