Data Center Engineer

Emerson's 130+ years of history have been filled with achievements and challenges that have driven innovative thinking and bold transformations, molding us into the company we are today. By joining us as a Senior Network Design Engineer, you will engineer complex data center network solutions using software-defined network architecture and cloud architecture. This includes underlying network switching/routing, firewalling, and load balancing. You will design, build, and operate large enterprise data center networks, including hybrid data center environments and public cloud. With broad knowledge across the full IT infrastructure stack, you will assess, architect, and build secure solutions that meet business needs.

If this sounds like a perfect fit for you, apply now and join our team in Mandaluyong City, Philippines!

For This Role, You Will Need:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems or related area.
• At least 10 years of experience working in a global environment, dealing with multiple time zones.
• At least 5 years of experience in the design, implementation, and operation of WAN/LAN/Data Center networks.
• Experience with Software Defined Network Architectures, ideally Big Switch (now Arista) Big Cloud Foundation (CCF) or Cisco ACI.
• Deep knowledge of networking and security in a data center environment, particularly with Cisco Networking, Arista CCF, Palo Alto, Infoblox, and F5 including micro segmentation.
• Excellent communication, teamwork, and documentation skills.

Preferred Qualifications that Set You Apart:

• Experience in integrating switching environments with Cisco Routing, F5, and Palo Alto is a plus.
• Minimum 1 year of experience working with Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS is a plus.

In This Role, Your Responsibilities Will Be:

• Work closely with the Senior Manager, Network Design Services, and other teams to ensure networking solutions meet business needs and remain supportable.
• Maintain a strategic roadmap encompassing the overall data center networking environment looking out 3 to 5 years.
• Research existing and new technologies for consideration in our environment, including lab testing when needed.
• Work closely with the Senior Manager and Network Design Services to ensure the appropriate levels of capacity planning and monitoring are in place to allow our Operations teams to operate the data center networking on a day-to-day basis.
• Work with our automation team to drive efficiencies around self service provisioning, monitoring, and compliance across switching, firewalling and load balancing.
• Maintain a strong understanding of data center switching and the interaction with virtual and cloud network environment.
• Simplify complex ideas/issues and present recommendations to senior management when required.
• Lead major vendor solution testing and selection and participate in data center-related projects that require networking input/solutions.
• Provide 4th level support to Operations for escalating issues and drive these to resolution.

Who You Are:

You analyze multiple and diverse sources of information to define problems accurately before moving to solutions. You lay out a thorough schedule and list of steps for achieving objectives. You formulate a clear strategy and map aggressive steps that will accelerate the organization toward its goals. You experiment with a wide range of existing technologies while applying new and emerging options that can enhance organizational outcomes. You figure out the processes necessary to get things done.

Our Culture & Commitment to You

At Emerson, we prioritize a workplace where every employee is valued, respected, and empowered to grow. We foster an environment that encourages innovation, collaboration, and diverse perspectivesbecause we know that great ideas come from great teams. Our commitment to ongoing career development and growing an inclusive culture ensures you have the support to thrive. Whether through mentorship, training, or leadership opportunities, we invest in your success so you can make a lasting impact. We believe diverse teams, working together are key to driving growth and delivering business results.

We recognize the importance of employee wellbeing. We prioritize providing competitive benefits plans, a variety of medical insurance plans, Employee Assistance Program, employee resource groups, recognition, and much more. Our culture offers flexible time off plans, including paid parental leave (maternal and paternal), vacation, and holiday leave.