JOB DESCRIPTION
Company Summary:
Recurrent Energy is one of the world’s largest and most geographically diversified utility-scale solar and energy storage project development, ownership, and operations platforms. With an industry-leading team of in-house energy experts, we are a wholly owned subsidiary of Canadian Solar Inc. and function as Canadian Solar’s global development and power services business.
Job Title: IT Network Engineer (Plant Infrastructure)
Department:Information Technology
Reports to:Senior Plant Infrastructure Manager
Location:Guelph, ON (Hybrid)
Position Summary:
Responsible for implementing, operating, and supporting scalable network solutions. This role will also routinely review, analyze, and recommend network improvements to ensure that the Network can scale with the needs of the applications and services riding on it.
Responsibilities:
- Gather & review the end customer network requirement for connecting the various control, SCADA, utility systems
- Plan and execute the approved network design in a specific change window.
- Monitor and optimize network performance and assure network security in a high availability environment.
- Troubleshoot, diagnose and resolve hardware, software, and other network and system problems in a prompt and timely manner.
- Recommend upgrades and replacement cycles to insure high availability of the network infrastructure including developing and implementing a scheduled maintenance plan.
- Write technical design and maintain build documentation for the network infrastructure.
- Enforce and execute user policies and procedures regarding the use of network resources.
- Use Wire Shark to perform packet capture and analysis for troubleshooting network and system issues.
- Document network knowledge base and operational “Run-Book”
- 15% travel required as necessary
Leadership:
- Demonstrates clarity of thinking to work through limited information and vague problem definitions
- Influences through others; builds direct and "behind the scenes" support for ideas
- Proactively identifies and removes project obstacles or barriers on behalf of the team
- Shares knowledge, power, and credit, establishing trust, credibility, and goodwill
Personal Attributes:
- Able to work well with global teams, including time-zone flexibility
- Ability to deliver results in a rapidly changing dynamic environment
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, including the ability to communicate effectively with both business and technical audiences
- Organized and self-motivated with an ability to prioritize and manage demanding workload
Requirements:
- 5+ years experience in a production industrial or manufacturing networking infrastructure
- Experience with Cisco, Fortinet, and Palo Alto Networks firewall services including IPSEC VPN, URL filtering, firewall policies, and IDS/IPS
- Extensive experience in IP networking, L2/L3 network protocols (spanning-tree, OSPF, BGP), TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, end to end QOS/COS (focused on industrial real-time protocols), VLAN, HSRP, VRRP, NAT/NATP, LACP, EVPN with VXLAN, ACLS, application flow, infrastructure cabling, VPN- IPsec Tunnels, MPLS VPN, SDWAN, segmentation, Purdue model philosophy, along with hands-on experience managing Enterprise WANs
- Extensive experience with multi-vendor industrial switching technologies including Cisco, Hirschmann, Siemens, Beckhoff, Moxa, N-Tron and similar industrial switches and PLCs.
- Working experience with industrial protocols such as CIP Ethernet/IP, PROFINET, BACnet, EtherCAT, Modbus, REP, MRP, HSR and similar protocols
- Working experience with distributed control system (DCS) networks in a manufacturing environment. Ignition, Honeywell, Emerson, ABB, or similar
- Experience with various tools such as Protocol Analyzer, Wireshark, SNMP, Netflow, IPAM, RADIUS, Splunk, network taps, SPAN ICS scanners (Claroty, Teneble, etc.)
- Experience with developing scripts to automate infrastructure deployment and collect metrics (Salt, Ansible, Python, Shell Scripting)
- CCNP, CCNA, CCIE and FORTINET Industrial certifications preferred.
- Physical routers - Cisco routers and switches
- OT DNS & IPAM solutions
- Experience managing server environments, working knowledge of Server hardware, software and operating Systems, platform configuration, VMware, Directory Service Technologies, OT cybersecurity, and systems management tools is a plus.
Education and Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
- 5-8 years of experience is required.
- Strong background with network and fire walling technologies including configuring, managing and monitoring, troubleshooting routing protocols, subnetting, and access controls and traffic shaping.
- Good written and verbal communication skills (English)
Compensation and Benefits:
Recurrent Energy offers a competitive salary.
Recurrent Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, or veteran status.
