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Sr. Network Engineer

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JOB DESCRIPTION

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

  • Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.

  • Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year

  • An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution

  • Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.

  • A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.

  • A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

This position will work out of our Abbott Park(Corporate Office), IL or Columbus, OH or Minneapolis, MN location,

The candidate is responsible for solution design, implementation, and operational support of Abbott’s Global Network Services. This position will serve as the technical lead for projects involving complex planning for all Abbott network infrastructure including detailed design creation, proposals, analysis, project preparation/implementation/and support.  Responsible for timely interaction with customers of the platform, peer technologists, and senior management.

The ideal candidate will have experience in large enterprise Data Center Networking, Routing, Switching, Wireless Access, Software Define WAN (SD-WAN) Firewall Controls, Load Balancing, Security Infrastructure, Remote Access Connectivity Solutions (Cisco AnyConnect, Zscaler ZPA), Network Segmentation, DHCP/DNS/IPAM, and Zscaler technologies. 

What You’ll Work On

  • Design large scale enterprise WAN, SD-WAN, LAN, WLAN including switches, firewalls, and other network related hardware. 

  • Design and Implement Data Center technologies like VXLAN, Cisco ACI

  • Design and continuously improve network monitoring and observability capabilities.

  • Design and management of core services such as DHCP, DNS, IP address Management and Load Balancing

  • Define requirements in support of budget plans and make recommendations for ways to improve performance, reduce costs, and meet business requirements. 

  • Defines the architecture and hardware requirements for project proposals. 

  • Design, execute, support day to day service requests. 

  • Lead large scale network refresh projects as well as divisional expansion projects. 

  • Design and Manage Network Capacity and Performance

  • Evaluates and identifies opportunities for network performance and functionality improvement within the enterprise network. 

  • Participate in the development efforts to bring automation into the network environment. 

  • Responsible for compliance with all applicable policies, procedures, and industry best practices. 

  • Successfully negotiate technical design and deployment strategy with key stakeholder and consumers of the service. 

  • Serve as the platform technical subject matter expert and provide consulting support to the business and end-user organizations. 

  • Produce and maintain timely, accurate engineering documentation. 

  • Partners with Abbott’s Cybersecurity organization in conducting security and vulnerability assessments to ensure compliance with corporate security policies and adherence to best practices. 

  • Integrates technical expertise with communication, leadership, and business skills in a team environment.   

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects simultaneously, while adhering to deadlines 

  • Demonstrates mastery of the concepts and theory of network security, and possess adept knowledge of data networking, including expertise in switching, routing, directory services, and TCP/IP fundamentals.  

  • Demonstrates knowledge of encryption protocols, as well as means for compromising systems based on known vulnerabilities. 

  • Demonstrates a strong customer centric approach and excellent communications skills. 

  • Responsible for the global landscape of the Abbott network and security infrastructure. 

  • Keeps abreast of industry trends and makes architecture roadmaps and or recommendation based on these trends. 

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Telecommunication, or other related field – or combination of experience / education. 

Preferred: MS Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Telecommunications.

Active Certifications: CISSP, CCNP, CCSE, CCIE. 

Required experience:

  • 8+ years of Networking experience. 

  • 8+ years network experience with multinational enterprises of 5000+ users including network design.

  • Expertise in designing enterprise scale routing and switching environments, MPLS / VPN, SD-WAN, WLAN, Cisco ISE and Identity/Authentication solutions, Network Topologies, Load balancing, and QoS and Cisco ACI.

Preferred qualifications:

*** Experience with the following products / environments preferred: 

  • Cisco Routers and Switches 

  • Cisco/ Viptela SDWAN or SDWAN technologies is a plus 

  • Infoblox

  • Cisco ASA 

  • Check Point Firewalls 

  • Citrix Netscaler 

  • F5 Load Balancer (GTM and LTM) 

  • Cisco ACI 

  • Zscaler 

  • Cisco Wireless 

  • API Based Automation 

  • Splunk 

  • Service Now 

  • Netbrain 

  • Logic Monitor 

  • Intrusion Prevention, Cloud Security (Zscaler and other security solutions), Firewalls Monitoring Tools

  • Experience in healthcare related industries is a plus. 

  • Multilingual a plus 

  • Experience in regulated environments a plus 

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Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives:  www.abbottbenefits.com

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

Connect with us at www.abbott.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott and on Twitter @AbbottNews and @AbbottGlobal.



The base pay for this position is $97,300.00 – $194,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

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