Network Engineer

Chief Global Solutions Officer | Aerodyne Group - The World's No. 1 Drone Solutions Provider

Aerodyne is a leading 360DT3 drone-based enterprise solutions provider, ranked as the world's #1 drone service provider for two consecutive years by Drone Industry Insights (DII) in 2021 and 2022. Our holistic approach to Drone Tech, Data Tech, and Digital Transformation (360DT3) helps organizations overcome complex industrial challenges by leveraging drone data and AI-powered analytics. We adopt a client-centric approach and collaborate with organizations using the Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) model, empowering them to establish their own in-house drone capabilities while capitalizing on our expertise and experience.

Aerodyne employs over 1,000 drone professionals to operate on an unprecedented level in the Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) services sector, having managed more than 752,700 infrastructure assets with 458,058 flight operations and surveyed over 380,000 km of power infrastructure across 45 countries globally.

Job Purpose:

The Network Engineer will oversee and ensure that the network and server systems at Aerodyne Group are functioning well and meet the needs of our organization. He/She will need to provide technology support, troubleshoot, and maintain the company’s in-house IT infrastructure related to the network.

• Manage various operating systems and platforms (Windows, Mac, and Linux systems) including super-admin account management.
• Responsible for managing, troubleshooting, and proactively updating hardware and software assets to prevent downtime or zero-day exploits from occurring.
• Perform network maintenance and system upgrades including service packs, patches, hot fixes, and security configurations.
• Configure and install various network devices and services (e.g., routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, VPN, QoS).
• Able to set up servers (both physical and virtual), set up Windows failover clusters, ensuring security review and endorsement are completed.
• Collaborate with vendor(s) for maintenance support and project deployment.
• Responsible for monitoring network performance and integrity and familiar with access control models and network security.
• Manage HyperVisor platform (Proxmox and VMWare).
• Select and implement security tools, policies, and procedures in conjunction with the company’s security team.
• Able to set up and configure the on-premise and Co-Location data center and GPU Server.
• Fulfill the SLA of server and network corrective maintenance.
• Support bridging and interfacing works between cloud and physical infrastructure.
• Manage system permissions and user accounts on company devices.
• Maintain network devices and network file systems.
• Select and implement network modernization in collaboration with the vendor.

Competencies (Skills & Knowledge and attributes):

As an Infrastructure professional, the candidate should have experience in software delivery, site reliability, and/or database/network administration for commercial large-scale software or services including coding and debugging.

• Hands-on experience in Windows, Linux, or UNIX Systems Administration.
• Hands-on experience supporting procedures and methodology in an enterprise environment.
• Understanding of networking basics.
• Proficient Level Understanding/Knowledge, Troubleshooting Experience on the following:

VLAN, L2/L3 VPN, SSL VPN, IPSec Tunnel, QoS, Fortinet Firewall, Network Switches (various model & brand).

• Possess good troubleshooting skills for SD-WAN related issues.
• Ability to participate in an on-call rotation and have the patience to communicate with a variety of interdisciplinary teams and users.
• Excellent problem-solving skills with a strong attention to detail.
• Experience managing large server fleets.
• Ability to support IT corrective maintenance on a day-to-day basis.

Formal Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or relevant work experience.
• Experience using a modern scripting language.
• Knowledge of TCP/IP networks and architecture.
• Knowledge of configuration management systems such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or related systems.
• Candidate with professional certification are preferable (e.g., Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA), Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) or other certification related to the network administrator field).

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