The Senior Network Engineer designs, builds, and supports the Enterprise LAN/WAN network, troubleshoots issues, and manages complex infrastructure projects while collaborating with business units.
About the organization
A well-established, community-focused financial institution headquartered in the Bay Area, known for its personalized banking services and long-standing commitment to local communities. The organization offers a full range of financial products including personal and business banking, mortgage lending, and wealth management. It distinguishes itself through relationship-based service, local decision-making, and support for regional economic growth through philanthropic initiatives and community engagement.
Position Overview:
The Senior Network Engineer performs activities required to design, build, deploy, and support the Enterprise LAN/WAN network and supporting branch operations, production datacenters, applications, telephony and video systems, and other devices. This is a technical position that requires strong troubleshooting and analytical skills, combined with a keen ability to communicate well in both verbal and written form.
Roles and Responsibilities
A well-established, community-focused financial institution headquartered in the Bay Area, known for its personalized banking services and long-standing commitment to local communities. The organization offers a full range of financial products including personal and business banking, mortgage lending, and wealth management. It distinguishes itself through relationship-based service, local decision-making, and support for regional economic growth through philanthropic initiatives and community engagement.
Position Overview:
The Senior Network Engineer performs activities required to design, build, deploy, and support the Enterprise LAN/WAN network and supporting branch operations, production datacenters, applications, telephony and video systems, and other devices. This is a technical position that requires strong troubleshooting and analytical skills, combined with a keen ability to communicate well in both verbal and written form.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Respond, troubleshoot, identify root causes, and remediate issues in a complete, documented, and timely manner.
- Ensure that appropriate monitoring, alerting, and logging mechanisms are in place and functioning optimally at all times.
- Ensure network devices are configured and maintained in accordance with appropriate standards, best practices, and regulatory compliance requirements. Utilize and follow the change management process for network changes.
- Provide Level 3 support to Network Operations for all LAN/WAN issues.
- Keep abreast of new technologies and recommend adoption as appropriate. Identify areas for automation or other process improvements.
- Participate in team on-call rotation and provide support during project and operations-related cutovers.
- Partner with business units to understand organizational needs and plan, design, implement, and support production data centers.
- Design, configure, implement, and support connectivity to leading Cloud providers per business requirements.
- Manage network uptime by auditing and enhancing network monitoring.
- Manage multiple high-visibility, high-impact projects simultaneously.
- Work with cross-functional teams supporting business applications and on-prem infrastructure and cloud.
- Proactively identify gaps, risks, and issues and navigate organizational structure to resolve them.
- Plan, design, and coordinate the implementation of WAN or Internet-related activities in support of defined requirements generated by business and growth demands.
- Validate project requirements, define project scope, develop project schedules, and produce detailed designs for assigned projects.
- Perform analysis and diagnosis of highly sophisticated networking problems related to WAN or Internet.
- Prepare and maintain up-to-date documentation detailing the deployed solutions.
- Plan and execute highly sophisticated network upgrades and migration activities.
- Assist with deployment and strategy of tools and related Network Management Systems.
- Provide mentorship for existing network team members as appropriate.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience).
- Requires traveling to Bay Area branch locations.
- Basic routing, switching, VPN, wireless, firewall skills, and troubleshooting network knowledge.
- Expert knowledge of Cisco networking equipment and software — Cisco CCNA, CCNP, or equivalent work experience.
- Hands-on Senior Network Engineer with over 4 years of experience in network design, architecture, and administration of multi-platform LAN/WAN environments.
- Demonstrated ability to systematically troubleshoot problems in complex systems and network environments.
- Experience designing and supporting high-availability networks in load-balanced, n-tier application environments.
- Experience supporting secure enterprise wireless networks, including Meraki knowledge and experience.
- 4+ years of experience with planning and design of customer-facing production data centers.
- Strong knowledge and experience in IP networking, L2/L3 network protocols (spanning-tree, OSPF, BGP), LAN/WAN, TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, routing, QoS, VLAN, ACL, NAC.
- Strong WAN background.
- SD-WAN project implementation experience a plus.
- Expert knowledge in building hybrid cloud approaches.
- Expert knowledge and experience with VPN encryption technologies, modern switching platforms, and firewalls including policy implementation and capacity management.
- Expert knowledge of Cisco equipment is highly desirable.
- Expert knowledge and experience with routing protocols and traffic engineering.
- Experience with infrastructure testing and troubleshooting tools including packet capture devices, network equipment debug and diagnostics (Wireshark, NetFlow, SolarWinds Orion).
- Experience in security policy implementation and managing the design and support of network environments to maintain policy integrity.
- Experience improving network monitoring to avoid service disruptions.
- Proven ability to manage mission-critical, highly visible infrastructure projects to completion.
- Experience in telephony and understanding of various standards.
- Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills.
- Automation experience is a plus.
Top Skills
Cisco Ccna
Cisco Ccnp
Dhcp
Dns
L2/L3 Network Protocols
Meraki
Netflow
Qos
Sd-Wan
Solarwinds Orion
Tcp/Ip
Vlan
Vpn
Wireshark
LTD Global, LLC Pleasanton, California, USA Office
7901 Stoneridge Dr, Suite 318,, Pleasanton, California, United States, 94588
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