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At Alliant Energy, our purpose is to serve customers and build stronger communities. We are passionate about powering beyond the market challenges of today, while powering what's next in energy. When our employees say "I am energy," it means they take pride in the work we do when disaster strikes, as well as all the days in between. We reward our highly hardworking and dedicated teams and give them the support they need to ensure their safety, wellness and financial security for themselves and their families.If you enjoy challenges, have strong communication skills and are passionate about the work you do we invite you to consider Alliant Energy. What sets us apart?- Alliant Energy offers a full compensation package. Benefits include Health, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Health and Day Care Savings Accounts, Paid Vacation, 401K, Employer Cash Contribution, Long and Short-Term Disability, Tuition reimbursement, and Adoption assistance.
- Year after year, Alliant Energy is recognized by major publications and foundations as a top employer and leader in the areas of equity and sustainability. This includes Newsweek's list of Most Responsible Companies, Forbes list of Best Midsize Employers , a perfect Corporate Equality Index Score as a Best Place to Work for LGBTQ+ Equality and being named to the Bloomberg Gender Equality Index.
- Our employees make a difference through their work and personal activities. In 2021, employees, retirees and our charitable foundation collectively contributed $11.5 million and volunteered over 75,000 hours.
- Resolves medium- to-high complexity technical issues escalated through the Information Technology Help Desk and other methods for data, telecommunications, and/or voice technologies during and outside of core business hours. Interacts and cooperates with other internal and external support groups to facilitate resolution of technical issues to maximize system availability and meet Service Level Agreements.
- Plans and collaborates with team members to research, design, implement, monitor, maintain, and support key of network, telecommunications, voice and/or collaboration infrastructure to establish stable and reliable network, telecommunications, voice and/or collaboration services that support enterprise LAN/WAN environments (e.g. access, distribution and Core Network Services).
- Coordinates the resolution of unplanned changes, upgrades, or outages of integrated network technologies, and participates in corporate disaster recovery efforts.
- Provides continual technical expertise in the evaluation, planning, analysis, development and implementation of data, telecommunications, voice and/or collaboration technologies including but not limited to providing roadmaps, processes and procedures for both project work and general organizational growth in conjunction with other engineers and management.
- Mentors less senior engineers and assists with the development of guidelines and tools for position duties; assists with on call duties as needed.
- Communicates customer requirements into tasks and stories using Agile tools. Communicates with peers such that user tasks and stories are clearly understood by all stakeholders.
- Participate in on-call rotations, including outside business hours; must be prepared to travel as required.
- 4 + years of experience in the Information Technology field with an emphasis in networks, telecommunications, voice and/or collaboration technologies.
- Hardware installation experience.
- Experience communicating with end users in problem / urgent situations.
- Proficient diagramming and flow chart experience using software such as Microsoft Visio.
- Solid understanding and familiarity with network technologies
- Ability to work individually and as a team member.
- Ability to work high-paced environment.
- Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to participate in on-call rotations, including after hours, and ability to travel as required.
- Associate degree in Computer Science or Information Technology with an emphasis in networks, telecommunications, voice and/or collaboration technologies; Bachelor's degree for a Network Engineer II
- Cisco Certified Entry Networking Technician (CCENT) and/or Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
- Experience with Cisco & Juniper, routers, switches, wireless, ISE, ACI, DNA Perl /Python, load balancers, InfoBlox, firewalls Basic Linux/UNIX skills and NERC CIP understanding
- Experience with dynamic routing protocols: BGP, OSPF, EIGRP
- Cisco NX-OS, IOS, IOS-XE, VRF, VPC, and VDC experience and understanding