Perdue Farms is a family-owned food and agriculture company now in its second century of growth and innovation. We were founded on trust—a value that carries through everything we do. Perdue Foods is a leader in Premium Proteins and Perdue AgriBusiness ranks among the top US grain companies. **Summary** We are recruiting for a Network Engineer III. This position is responsible for the design, deployment, configuration, and administration of networking components to include firewalls, routers, SD-WAN, wireless components, switches, VPN, and Network Access Control. The focus of this position will be on the company’s local area network technology, including SD-WAN, wired and wireless access. This role oversees overall roadmap of this critical network infrastructure and provide support for a Tier 3 level. The salary range for this position is $97,000 - $145,000 per year, based on experience and qualifications with annual bonus available (variable depending on performance). In addition to the base salary, Perdue offers a competitive benefits package, including medical/Rx, 401(k) with employer match after 1 year, critical illness, accident insurance, dental, vison, life insurance, optional group life insurance, short-term and long-term disability protection, flexible spending accounts and paid time off. This role is onsite at our Corporate Salisbury, MD offices. Relocation assistance is available for qualified candidates. **Principal and Essential Duties & Responsibilities** + Provide Tier 3 support for local area network services across the enterprise for wired and wireless network services. + Build and maintain a roadmap for the evolution of local area network services, to provide LAN services to our administration and Operation technology networks + Plan network maintenance activities for the LAN infrastructure to support our ability to stay current with software patches and features to support the business, including emergency patching for critical vulnerabilities. + Monitor end of life/end of support cycles for the various platforms and propose projects to refresh the hardware to allow the company to remain supported. + Work closely with the company’s information security department on ensuring the LAN is protected from malicious activity. + Work with our Manufacturing Systems teams to property segment operational technology (production) traffic to provide protective security measures within the Perdue network. + Provide technical design, implementation, documentation and operational leadership for all aspects of networking, and mentoring for junior team members. **Minimum Education and Experience Required** **REQUIRED:** + Bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems or Computer Science or equivalent work experience + CCNA certified + 8+ years in managing and deploying network devices (Routers, Switches, Load balancers, Access Points, Wireless Controllers) + Experience with modern routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP) + 3+ years managing an enterprise network which includes manufacturing elements + Advanced network problem solving and troubleshooting skills including running wire captures to determine where a problem may exist + Experience with network segmentation for the purpose of reducing risk to critical processes on a network + Cloud managed network experience in Aruba Central **PREFERRED** **:** + Incident and Problem Management Experience + SD-WAN experience - HPE Aruba EdgeConnect + Network Access Control experience in an enterprise network setting, utilizing 802.1x technology to determine what level of network access to provide to a device + Cloud Network experience in one or more of the 3 major cloud platforms **Environmental Factors and Physical Requirements** + Position is mostly sedentary but may require occasional moving to other offices or buildings + May need to move light equipment or supplies from one place to another + May need to access files, supplies and equipment + Work activity is in an office, open-partitioned, cubicle environment + Some work may need to be completed on-site at one of our locations, which could be a in a wet\damp climate \#LI-JB1 _Perdue Farms, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status._