Networking Jobs in Wallingford, CT (NOW HIRING)

At ASSA ABLOY, our global teams collaborate seamlessly to craft products and services that integrate into our users' lives, simplifying their everyday routines and enhancing convenience. By empowering users to control access, we provide unparalleled peace of mind through enhancing safety and visibility.

The Network Infrastructure Technician is responsible for the installation, maintenance, and support of physical network infrastructure across a large manufacturing environment. This role focuses primarily on planning and executing cable runs, installing and terminating network drops, connecting and managing patch panels, and supporting server and networking rack infrastructure.

The position also includes light networking responsibilities, including basic switch hardware remediation, rack upkeep, and monitoring backup power systems to help ensure stability and reliability of network infrastructure. This individual will work throughout an approximately 800,000 square foot manufacturing facility.

This is a hands-on role requiring strong technical ability, attention to detail, and comfort working in an industrial environment, including use of a scissor lift when needed.

What you will be doing:

• Plan and install physical network drops throughout office, warehouse, production, and support areas.
• Run network cabling through walls, ceilings, overhead spaces, and warehouse areas in accordance with site requirements and safety practices.
• Terminate lines properly at the wall jack and patch panel, ensuring clean, labeled, and organized installations.
• Connect and maintain patch panels and related structured cabling components.
• Install, maintain, reorganize, and expand network and server racks.
• Perform routine upkeep of rack environments to maintain cleanliness, organization, airflow, and cable management.
• Monitor and maintain battery backup / UPS systems, including verifying operational status and ensuring systems are appropriate for connected load.
• Support remediation of switch hardware failures, including replacement or coordination of replacement of failed hardware components.
• Assist with light networking tasks related to connectivity restoration and physical infrastructure support.
• Install new network racks or update existing rack infrastructure as business needs change.
• Troubleshoot physical-layer connectivity issues involving cabling, terminations, patch panels, racks, and related infrastructure.
• Document cable runs, patch panel assignments, rack layouts, and changes to physical network infrastructure.
• Coordinate with IT staff, facilities personnel, vendors, and contractors when required for projects or repair work.
• Follow safety requirements and properly operate equipment, including a scissor lift, to access elevated cable pathways and infrastructure areas.
• Assist with help-desk tickets as needed.

What we are looking for:

• Experience with structured cabling, including cable installation, routing, labeling, and termination.
• Experience working with patch panels, wall jacks, cable testing, and physical network troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with network racks, rack-mounted equipment, cable management, and physical infrastructure organization.
• Basic understanding of network switches and ability to support hardware replacement or remediation of failed equipment.
• Experience monitoring or maintaining UPS / battery backup systems.
• Ability to read or interpret basic floor plans, rack layouts, cable pathways, and installation requirements.
• Comfortable working in a large industrial or warehouse environment.
• Ability to safely use ladders and operate a scissor lift.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to neat, accurate, and well-documented installations.
• Ability to work independently on assigned tasks 

What we offer!

We believe in creating opportunities and providing benefits that empower you to grow, thrive, and build a rewarding lifelong career with us. Here is just a sample of what you can look forward to as a member of our team:

• Competitive Salary 
• Paid Vacation, Sick Time, and paid Company Holidays
• Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), Short and Long-term Disability, Life and AD&D Insurance
• Tuition Reimbursement, Learning and Career Development opportunities
• Flexible Spending
• Employee Assistance Program
• Discount portal
• Recognition, well-being, and employee experience programs designed to support and celebrate you throughout your career

We are the ASSA ABLOY Group
Our people have made us the global leader in access solutions. In return, we open doors for them wherever they go. With nearly 63,000 colleagues in more than 70 different countries, we help billions of people experience a more open world. Our innovations make all sorts of spaces - physical and virtual - safer, more secure, and easier to access. 

As an employer, we value results - not titles, or backgrounds. We empower our people to build their career around their aspirations and our ambitions - supporting them with regular feedback, training, and development opportunities. Our colleagues think broadly about where they can make the most impact, and we encourage them to grow their role locally, regionally, or even internationally.

As we welcome new people on board, it's important to us to have diverse, inclusive teams, and we value different perspectives and experiences.