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TerraPower Network Engineer in Bellevue, Washington
TITLE: Network Engineer LOCATION: Bellevue, WA TerraPower is a nuclear technology company based in Bellevue, Washington. At its core, the company is working to raise living standards globally through a more affordable, secure and environmentally friendly form of nuclear energy along with innovations in medical isotopes to improve human health. In 2006, TerraPower originated with Bill Gates and a group of like-minded visionaries who evaluated the fundamental challenges to raising living standards around the world. They recognized energy access was crucial to the health and economic well-being of communities and decided that the private sector needed to take action and create energy sources that would advance global energy deployment. TerraPower's mission is to be a world leader in new nuclear technologies, while developing innovators and future leaders in the nuclear field. As a result, the company's activities in the fields of nuclear energy and related sciences are yielding significant innovations in the safety and economics of nuclear power, hybrid energy and medical applications - all for significant human health benefits. TerraPower is seeking to hire highly motivated and forward-thinking professionals who are interested in focusing on advanced nuclear reactor research and development and influencing change within the nuclear power landscape and bringing forward the critical production of medical isotopes. Network Systems Engineer TerraPower is looking for a motivated, detail-oriented, and collaborative Network Engineer to support our multi-state, multi-site networking infrastructure team. A successful candidate responds to potentially time-sensitive situations with the right balance of expeditious and methodical. Someone who demonstrates integrity, awareness and adaptability working in a diverse team with dynamically shifting requirements would excel in this role. As a Network Engineer, you will play an important role in designing and implementing commercial and industrial network systems supporting our new construction projects in Wyoming and office and lab locations in Washington state and Maryland. Your primary responsibilities will include understanding business needs from enterprise networking requirements to industrial control systems. You will be identifying the appropriate technologies and systems to meet the need, applying best practices in network architecture, cyber security, and change management. Responsibilities * Designing and implementing new network solutions and/or improving the efficiency of current networks for clients. Networks include business office deployments, research lab deployments, industrial systems deployments and energy plant site deployments. * Installing, configuring, maintaining, and supporting network equipment, or procuring and managing third party resources to provide support and installation effort. * Availability of all IP transport functions including edge firewalls, SDWAN, LAN/WAN routing and switching * Maximizing network performance through ongoing monitoring and troubleshooting * Maximizing wireless network performance through ongoing monitoring and troubleshooting * Investigating faults in the network and updating equipment * Reporting network status to key stakeholders * Produce and maintain documentation of network functions * Stay up to date with industry standards and network equipment * Work with a team of IT system engineers and managers to maintain availability of enterprise IT services and infrastructure * Hardware and Service Provider contract/licensing/support management Qualifications * 5+ years of network engineer experience required * 3+ years with Industrial control system (ICS) networking infrastructure and protocols (DCS/SCADA) experience * Knowledge of full spectrum of enterprise networking hardware