The Senior Network Engineer designs, implements, and supports enterprise network infrastructures, leads projects, provides technical leadership, and ensures high availability.
Senior Network Engineer
Role Summary
The Senior Network Engineer is responsible for the design, implementation, optimization, and support of complex enterprise network infrastructures to include Cisco, Palo Alton, Juniper. This role serves as a technical authority and escalation point, leading network architecture decisions, mentoring junior engineers, and ensuring secure, highly available, and scalable network environments across data center, cloud, and campus/WAN infrastructures.
Core Responsibilities
- Design and architect enterprise-grade network solutions including LAN, WAN, Data Center, and Cloud connectivity
- Lead network refresh, migration, and modernization projects from planning through execution
- Serve as the highest-level escalation for complex network incidents and root-cause analysis
- Implement and maintain high availability, redundancy, and failover strategies
- Collaborate with security, systems, and application teams to ensure end-to-end network alignment
- Develop and maintain network standards, diagrams, documentation, and MOPs
- Provide technical leadership, guidance, and mentoring to network and field engineers
- Support change management, maintenance windows, and post-implementation validation
- Engage with vendors, evaluate technologies, and support hardware/software lifecycle management
Technical Expertise (High Level)
- Routing & Switching: BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, STP, VLANs, LACP, QoS
- Firewalling & Security: Enterprise firewalls, segmentation, VPNs, IPS/IDS concepts
- Data Center Networking: Leaf-spine architectures, high-throughput and low-latency designs
- WAN & Connectivity: MPLS, SD-WAN, Internet circuits, LTE/5G failover
- Monitoring & Troubleshooting: Packet analysis, performance tuning, proactive monitoring
Leadership & Professional Skills
- Strong documentation, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills
- Proven ability to lead projects and influence technical direction
- Comfortable operating in high-availability, 24×7 enterprise environments
Experience & Qualifications
- 5+ years of hands-on enterprise network engineering experience
- Experience supporting multi-site, mission-critical environments
- Industry certifications preferred (CCNA (at minimum), CCNP/CCIE, NSE , or equivalent)
- Bachelor’s degree in IT, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
Top Skills
5G
Bgp
Cisco
Eigrp
Ips/Ids
Juniper
Lacp
Lte
Mpls
Ospf
Palo Alto
Qos
Sd-Wan
Stp
Vlans
Vpns
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