Senior Network Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Act as the network subject matter expert and technical lead for the architecture, configuration, implementation, monitoring, maintenance, and lifecycle management of the hybrid network environment.

• Offer technical guidance and mentorship to fellow engineers.

• Configure and support Cisco and Meraki switching, routing, wireless, and site connectivity across offices, retail locations, and warehouse facilities.

• Administer and enhance Palo Alto firewalls, security policies, site-to-site VPNs, remote-access VPN services, and related network security functionalities.

• Take ownership of designing and executing the cloud connectivity roadmap, transitioning from Cisco cloud services routers to cloud-native networking for Azure-to-AWS and cloud-to-site communication.

• Collaborate with DevOps to establish cloud network standards, security controls, and infrastructure-as-code for cloud networking.

• Lead the network design and deployment for new facilities and upgrades to existing sites, covering requirements gathering, design, equipment selection, implementation, testing, documentation, and transition to operations.

• Oversee network availability, performance, capacity, configurations, logs, and security events; set alerts, identify trends, and proactively resolve issues.

• Diagnose complex issues related to routing, switching, wireless, firewalls, VPN, DNS, DHCP, latency, packet loss, and cloud connectivity.

• Ensure maintenance of security patches, software, firmware, configuration management, backups, vulnerability remediation, and change-control practices.

• Collaborate with information security on defense-in-depth, segmentation, least-privilege access, zero-trust, intrusion prevention, logging, and threat correlation.

• Keep network architecture diagrams, configuration standards, operating procedures, asset records, support documentation, and disaster-recovery information up to date.

• Engage in incident response, problem management, root-cause analysis, and corrective-action planning.

• Automate network administration, validation, reporting, and monitoring utilizing APIs and scripting.

• Manage relationships with telecommunications carriers, managed service providers, and network technology vendors.

• Participate in an on-call rotation for critical network services.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience; relevant certifications may substitute for degree requirements.

• Seven or more years of progressively responsible experience in network engineering.

• Significant hands-on experience with enterprise physical-site and cloud networking environments.

• Proven experience leading network implementations, migrations, upgrades, and complex production troubleshooting within a distributed organization.

• Advanced hands-on expertise with Cisco and Meraki switching, routing, wireless, dashboards, templates, and centralized management.

• Proficient in configuring and troubleshooting Palo Alto Networks firewalls, security and NAT policies, threat-prevention capabilities, site-to-site VPNs, and remote-access VPN services.

• Strong understanding of TCP/IP, IPv4 and IPv6, VLANs, spanning tree, 802.1X, QoS, DNS, DHCP, NAT, IPsec, SSL/TLS, SNMP, OSPF, and BGP.

• Experience in designing and operating resilient WAN, LAN, WLAN, internet-edge, and hybrid connectivity services across multiple geographic locations.

• Familiarity with AWS and Azure networking, including virtual networks, routing, security controls, private connectivity, transit architectures, VPN connectivity, and cloud-native monitoring.

• Competent in network monitoring, alerting, configuration backup, performance analysis, log management, and packet-analysis tools.

• Working knowledge of network segmentation, zero-trust principles, intrusion detection and prevention, secure remote access, vulnerability remediation, and defense-in-depth practices.

• Ability to automate administrative and validation tasks using Python, PowerShell, APIs, infrastructure-as-code, or similar tools.

• Experience with formal incident, problem, change, configuration, and asset-management processes.

• Familiarity with PCI, SOX, and related control and evidence requirements in an enterprise setting.

• Experience with Akamai CDN and security services, SIEM platforms, and cloud security or observability tools is a plus.

• CCNP, Palo Alto PCNSE, Meraki certification, or equivalent industry certification preferred; practical experience will be considered.

• Capability to plan and manage complex networking projects.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Strong analytical and troubleshooting abilities.

• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams.

• Ability to mentor junior engineers.

• Reliable internet access and a safe, secure, distraction-free remote workspace.

• Proficient in using a computer, keyboard, mouse, and standard office equipment.

• Effective communication skills with colleagues, customers, and business partners.

• Ability to occasionally lift office materials or equipment weighing up to 15 pounds.

• Willingness to travel regularly, including visits to customer sites, meetings, or other business locations (10–25%).

🏝️ Benefits

• Annual discretionary bonus.

• Competitive salary.

• Comprehensive healthcare package (medical, dental, vision, prescription drugs, FSAs).

• 401(k) retirement plan.

• Paid time off (PTO) and holidays.

• Paid parental leave.

• Life and disability insurance.

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

• Opportunities for professional development and tuition assistance.