Staff IT Network Engineer

What you’ll do

• Design, implement, and support multi-site enterprise network infrastructure across offices, labs, data centers, and co-location environments.
• Maintain high availability, performance, and stability of network services supporting engineering, corporate, and lab environments.
• Lead delivery of complex network projects, including new site buildouts, lab infrastructure upgrades, co-location and data center changes, and infrastructure decommissioning.
• Serve as a senior escalation resource for network operations, outages, performance issues, and complex troubleshooting, including incident restoration, root cause communication, and follow-through.
• Engineer and maintain secure connectivity services including firewalls, remote access VPN, site-to-site VPN, and related network security controls.
• Support network services for cloud and hybrid environments, including DNS, VLAN, VPC, and public cloud connectivity requirements.
• Drive proactive monitoring, alerting, and service health visibility using operational monitoring platforms and performance data.
• Perform capacity planning and recommend improvements that increase resiliency, reduce operational friction, and support evolving infrastructure needs.
• Lead network deployment activities for new facilities, lab expansions, and infrastructure refreshes, including architecture input, hardware planning, rack and wiring coordination, and implementation oversight.
• Partner with security and compliance stakeholders to align infrastructure changes with risk, policy, and audit requirements.
• Establish, document, and promote network standards, operational discipline, and best practices across the team.
• Provide technical leadership for network modernization initiatives spanning routing, switching, wireless, firewall, VPN, DNS, VLAN, SD-WAN, and cloud networking domains, including oversight of implementation quality and vendor engagement.

What you’ve done

• Acquired a minimum of 5 years of progressively responsible experience in network engineering, network systems engineering, or network operations in an enterprise environment.
• Developed strong hands-on expertise with routing, switching, TCP/IP, IPv4/IPv6, VLANs, VPNs, firewalls, wireless, and network troubleshooting.
• Supported global or multi-site network environments spanning offices, labs, data centers, or co-location facilities.
• Utilized network monitoring and operational tools to detect, triage, and resolve service issues in high-impact environments.
• Led infrastructure implementations, upgrades, or lifecycle projects from planning through operational handoff.
• Communicated clearly and effectively during incidents, coordinating across teams and driving issues to closure.
• (Preferred) Gained 7+ years of experience in enterprise network engineering or infrastructure operations.
• (Preferred) Worked with Palo Alto firewalls, GlobalProtect, and modern network security practices.
• (Preferred) Worked with Cisco enterprise networking platforms, including routing, switching, and wireless technologies.
• (Preferred) Gained familiarity with AWS, Azure, VPC networking, and hybrid cloud connectivity models.
• (Preferred) Supported engineering lab environments or infrastructure that underpins product development and validation workflows.
• (Preferred) Earned relevant certifications such as CCNP, Palo Alto certifications, or comparable networking/security credentials.

Who you are

• A technically strong, hands-on engineer who is comfortable owning critical network issues end-to-end.
• Operationally mature, with a strong focus on reliability, resiliency, and continuous improvement in production environments.
• Able to balance day-to-day operational demands with longer-term infrastructure delivery and modernization initiatives.
• An effective collaborator who partners well with security, cloud, engineering, and external vendors to achieve shared outcomes.
• Detail-oriented and disciplined in documentation, standards adherence, and change management.
• Calm and clear under pressure, with the ability to lead complex implementations and incident response while maintaining strong communication with stakeholders.