Network Engineer

Local Bounti is a leading controlled environment agriculture (CEA) company. Our mission is to bring our farm to your kitchen and deliver the freshest, locally grown produce in the fewest food miles possible.

By growing local and minimizing the distance between farm and plate, Local Bounti helps eliminate food waste and provides fresh, high-quality produce to areas of the country over 1,000 miles from their current source. Our sustainable greenhouse technology delivers ideal growing conditions for each of our diverse selection of crops, resulting in 90% less water consumption and 95% less land use than conventional agriculture, no need for herbicides or pesticides, and the lowest carbon footprint in the industry. We provide an interactive, educational, and safe work environment and are dedicated to helping our employees grow within the company. Local Bounti is committed to fully integrating environmental, social, and governance (ESG) objectives in all our business activities.

Local Bounti currently has an opening for a Network Engineer. Pay range for this position will be $120K - $150K DOE. 

The Network Engineer will be responsible for creating, maintaining, and securing the IT networks for Local Bounti.

Responsibilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The duties listed below are representative of the essential functions, qualifications, physical demands, and the work environment encountered in this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with any other duties as assigned:

•  Using their IT knowledge to develop company networks, coordinating with company leadership to identify network needs.
• Aid employees and other individuals on how to use the network(s) effectively.
• Support company employees and the service desk by resolving incidents and documenting solutions in service desk tickets.
• Patching and hardening hardware and software.
• Monitoring networks for suspicious activity.
• Working with Cybersecurity personnel or companies to monitor logs.
• Configure and support company firewall to keep data and communications protected.
• Design effective network segmentation for security and access control.
• Maintain all company IP addressing and routing.
• Maintaining computer networks, VPNs, routers, switches, and other physical hardware
• Installing and configuring network equipment.
• Creating firewalls and updating virus protection software
• Monitoring computer systems to improve network performance for all IT systems.
• Troubleshooting, resolving, and communicating networking issues to other employees and management.
• Implementing disaster recovery procedures
• Maintaining current knowledge and understanding of security and networking best practices to offer the best solutions and protection to company systems.

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Proven hands-on network engineering experience.
• CCNP or higher (CCIE and/or CISSP highly valued).
• Deep understanding of networking protocols (e.g., IPSEC, HSRP, BGP, OSPF, 802.11, QoS).
• Solid understanding of the OSI or TCP/IP model.
• Hands-on experience with monitoring, network diagnostic and network analytics tools.

Education and Experience:

• University degree in Computer Science or a related subject.
• Palo Alto firewall experience.
• Juniper/Mist switch and wireless access point experience.
• 5 years network installation, configuration, and maintenance experience with large wide area and local area networks.
• Experience with Linux and Windows servers and VMWare would be a plus.

Physical Demands:

(Physical demands are a general guide and specific positions will vary based on working conditions, locations and facility/department needs)

• The working environment is subject to pressure for multiple calls, inquiries, and interruptions.
• Hearing: perceiving the nature of sound by ear.
• Lifting: raising or lowering objects weighing no more than 10 pounds, from one level to another.
• Mental Demands: mathematical reasoning, memorization, oral comprehension, spatial orientation, and written comprehension.
• Sitting: remaining in the normal seated position.
• Stooping: bending the body by bending the spine at the waist.
• Talking: expressing or exchanging ideas by means of spoken words.
• Vision Near acuity: ability to see clearly at 20 inches or less