At ADS, no idea is off limits, and we celebrate creativity and bold moves. For more than 50 years ADS has been manufacturing a variety of innovative and environmentally friendly alternatives to traditional materials. Headquartered in Hilliard, Ohio, we are a multi-billion dollar stormwater management company, manufacturing pipe and ancillary products. What does that mean? When it storms, we capture rain with our drain basins, convey it with pipe, store it using chambers and finally treat it with our water quality products, before safely returning water back to the environment. We handle, what we call, the entire lifecycle of a raindrop. Our products help prevent flooding, which increases quality of life for people living in large cities, suburbs, and rural towns. We also believe in creating a circular economy and are the largest plastic recycling company in North America. We use plastic shampoo and detergent bottles to create pipe, diverting over 500 million pounds of plastic from landfills every year. ADS operates a global network of over 60 manufacturing plants and 30 distribution centers.

We have amazing stories to tell, and we need your help getting our story out there. To learn more about ADS, please visit our website at www.adspipe.com.

As a Network Architect, you'll be responsible for the engineering aspects of the network infrastructure domain, including long-term planning, design, implementation, and support of enterprise solutions across our network (LAN, WAN, Wireless, and firewall). You'll partner with business and project teams to gather requirements and design solutions, working with engineers and architects to develop technical domain summary documents and strategic roadmaps. You will directly impact our current environment while also influencing our future by implementing new technologies as part of large-scale lifecycle programs and strategic enterprise projects while also providing guidance to IT leadership and other IT team members.

Primary Job Responsibilities:

The responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to:

+ Perform network assessments and develop / design solutions based on industry current practices and the latest advanced network technologies.

+ Drive resiliency of the IT network infrastructure by ensuring current and future designs meets Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery requirements.

+ Proactively manage standards, topology documentation, configuration files, performance baselines, capacity planning roadmaps, and hardware lifecycles.

+ Support networking team during deployment and initial handoff of newly implemented architectural designs.

+ Support IT leadership by providing technical consultation along with team lead / manager.

+ Other support responsibilities related to Network Infrastructure as required.

+ Work in partnership with security team on architectural designs

+ Work with ADS vendors, managed service providers, and appropriate professional services teams as applicable

Job Skills:

This position must possess the following skills/knowledge:

+ 2+ years of experience creating and delivering advanced enterprise-wide network architectures covering LAN, WAN, Wireless, 4/5G, SD-WAN, VPNs, NAC, SASE, and Zero Trust.

+ 5+ years of experience in a multi-site, consisting of at least 1500+ endpoint.

+ Created, implemented, and supported repeatable, reliable, and scalable network architectures with disaster recovery, fault tolerance, application and network performance tuning, security, system monitoring, and statistics/metrics collection in mind.

+ Ability to deliver complex technical projects within a defined schedule.

+ Must be able to prioritize workload and work effectively across multiple efforts / projects with limited supervision.

Educational Requirements:

+ Bachelor's degree in MS, IT, or computer information systems or equivalent work experience in a related field

+ CCNA and CCNP

Preferred Experience:

+ Other certifications: Azure Network Engineer Associate, CISSP, F5

+ RF / Wi-Fi design and troubleshooting tools (example: Ekahau or Hamina)

+ Certification and or familiarity with other hardware vendor solutions such as Arista, Aruba / HP, Cloudflare, Fortinet, Meraki, and Palo Alto

+ Certification and or familiarity with other cloud vendors such as AWS and Oracle

ADS supports an inclusive workplace that values diversity of thought, experience, and background. We celebrate the power of our differences to create better solutions for our customers by ensuring employees can be their authentic selves each day. ADS is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, veteran status, marital status, creed, status with regard to public assistance, genetic status or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.

Requisition ID: 2023-15260

External Company Name: Advanced Drainage Systems

External Company URL: http://www.ads-pipe.com/en/

Street: 3455 Mill Run Drive