Senior Network Engineer

Purpose of Position

The Senior Network Engineer proactively and holistically leads and supports architecture/engineering activities that guide the development and management of technical and infrastructure solutions. These solutions enable the organization's future-state business capabilities and drive the organization's targeted business outcomes. Technologies include data center, infrastructure, cloud, mobile, AI, Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain, edge computing, and immersive experiences technologies. In addition, this role provides the leadership, facilitation, analysis, and design tasks required to develop an enterprise's technical and infrastructure architecture.

Tasks and Responsibilities

Guides technology investment decisions based on analysis and evaluation to drive targeted business outcomes.
Helps the enterprise architect define metrics to measure and demonstrate enterprise technology value.
Assists with designing the governance, assurance, and standards activities associated with ensuring enterprise technology architecture compliance of projects and products.
Oversees and facilitates the research, evaluation, and selection of hardware and software technology and product standards and the design of standard configurations.
Identifies the organizational impact (for example, on skills, processes, structures, and culture) and financial impact of the enterprise technology architecture
Understands, advocates, and augments the business and IT strategies —specifically, architecture development and service delivery.
Leads and Collaborates to Deliver Business Outcomes
Oversees, or consults on, technology implementation and modification activities (for example, projects and products), particularly for new or shared infrastructure solutions.
Consults on application or infrastructure development projects to harmonize systems or infrastructure with the enterprise technology architecture and identify when it is necessary to modify the enterprise technical architecture (ETA) to accommodate immediate or future project needs
Creates and delivers working, production-ready reference implementations that can be leveraged easily by agile teams
Works closely with the product managers, product owners, and peers (e.g., enterprise, business, information, security, and solutions architects) to enable infrastructure agility, scalability, and resilience to support required product needs throughout the product lifecycle.
Collaborates with business constituents, other team members, project teams, and staff in various IT functional areas as needed to fulfill the responsibilities described above.
Documents necessary enterprise technology architecture design and analysis work, possibly including project postmortem documentation and metric collection
Configuring and installing various network devices and services (e.g., routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, VPN, QoS)
Provide Level 2/3 support and troubleshooting to resolve issues

Minimum Education

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution or equivalent industry experience

• Desired certifications or equivalent in one of these disciplines; CCNA, CCNP, CCDP, CCIE, CISSP, and or other security certifications

Minimum Experience

• 5+ years of design and implementation experience in IT, with deep knowledge in infrastructure and network design, cloud technologies, and active directory and protocols

• Exposure to multiple, diverse technical configurations, technologies, and processing environments (such as inside-out, outside-in, and outside-out)

• Hands-on experience with network deployment, management, monitoring, and network analytics tools.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• CCNP certification is preferred

• Deep understanding of networking protocols (e.g., IPSEC, HSRP, BGP, OSPF, 802.11, QoS)

• Solid understanding of the OSI or TCP/IP model.

• Excellent interpersonal skills in areas such as teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation

• Excellent analytical and technical skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Excellent planning and organizational skills

• Knowledge of information principles and processes

• Understanding of network and security architecture

• Understanding and knowledge of system development life cycle methodologies (such as waterfall, spiral, agile software development, rapid prototyping, incremental, synchronize and stabilize, and DevOps)

• Understanding and knowledge of IT service management (ITSM) and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)

• Understanding and knowledge of IT standards and controls

• Travel when required

Physical Demands and Work Environment

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and communicate. The employee may be required to stand, walk, and sit.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include the ability to view monitors, technical documents, and reference material. 

The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate.