Position: Network Engineer
Company: Blackthorn Vision
Category: Sysadmin
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

Blackthorn Vision offers you to join an international team operating in Oil & Gas industry.

**Requirements:**
• 10+ years of experience in network engineering positions;
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, electrical, networking, or electronics engineering;
• An ability to follow standard processes;
• Good time management skills;
• Strong documentation skills;
• **Good English language skills – both written and verbal;**
• An analytical mind with an ability to master new technologies in terms of commercial and business awareness.
	
**Nice to have:** 3rd party network certification, such as CCNA, CCNP, RHCE, CCIE, AWS Advanced Networking Certification, Azure Network Engineer Associate;
- **satellite network operating understanding.**

**We Offer:** 
• Challenging and exciting work in a friendly and professional environment;
• Excellent career opportunities and a competitive salary;
• Professional development program with internal seminars on technical topics;
• Flexible work schedule and pleasant working environment, including modern and comfortable offices (Lviv and Khmelnytskyi);
• 18 working days of paid vacation (24 calendar days), 5 full paid sick leave days;
• Medical insurance;
• Corporate English courses;
• Great corporate events and celebrations;
• Access to the corporate library and much more.

**Responsibilities:** 
• Designing and implementing new network solutions and/or improving the efficiency of current networks;
• Installing, configuring and supporting network equipment including routers, proxy servers, switches, WAN accelerators, DNS and DHCP;
• Configuring firewalls, routing and switching to maximize network efficiency and security;
• Maximizing network performance through ongoing monitoring and troubleshooting;
• Collaborating & coordinating with technology & security teams;
• Planning & arranging scheduled upgrades;
• Investigating faults in the network;
• Updating network equipment to the latest firmware releases;
• Reporting network status to key stakeholders;
• Implementing, monitoring, and deploying disaster recovery systems and measures;
• Edge-to-enterprise communication (cellular, satellite, etc.); general infrastructure communication maintenance.

**About The Project:**
Our client, Sensia, is a US company specializing in oil and gas production, transportation, and processing. Their team of 1,000+ experts serves customers in 80 countries across the world.

As the first fully integrated oilfield automation solutions provider, Sensia makes the production, transportation, and processing of oil and gas simpler, safer, more secure, more productive, and better understood from end to end. The company introduces the advantages of industrial-scale digitalization and seamless automation, enabling each asset to operate more productively and profitably.

Over the last seven years, the Blackthorn Vision team has been helping to upgrade the existing web-based application, add new functionality, and improve the customer experience.
The application is designed to compute, analyze, control, and communicate the parameters needed to optimize the production of naturally flowing wells. It is used by operators and maintenance personnel of petroleum companies to monitor the status and productivity of oil and gas wells and other equipment.

All business and operational challenges are solved with thorough, accurate, and comprehensive analytics, which involves monitoring, collecting, and contextualizing large amounts of data and then presenting it to workers in the form of practical, actionable insights.
The analytics can also include behavior and performance trends of artificial lift systems, real-time performance and alarm information from surface processing skids, remote wellhead-monitoring systems, or multiwell pad insights into downhole and reservoir conditions.