Senior Network Engineer

Bell Techlogix, Inc.

$90K — $120K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in IT or equivalent experience.
  • 7+ years of enterprise networking experience.
  • CCNP certification or equivalent.
  • Strong expertise in routing, switching, and network design principles.
  • Experience with Azure, AWS, or hybrid cloud networking.

Responsibilities

  • Design and manage comprehensive enterprise network architecture.
  • Create secure, reliable, and scalable network solutions.
  • Lead engineering projects from design to implementation.
  • Evaluate new technologies for strategic adoption.
  • Serve as escalation point for network incidents.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work schedule (3 days onsite).
  • After-hours support needed occasionally.
  • Opportunity for professional development and mentorship.
  • Support for maintaining required certification levels.
Full Job Description
Essential Functions:
  • Design, develop, and manage enterprise network architecture for datacenter, campus, branch, cloud, and multi-tenant environments.
  • Create scalable, secure, reliable, and reusable network solutions.
  • Lead engineering efforts from design through implementation and operational support.
  • Evaluate emerging technologies and develop strategic recommendations.
  • Manage complex multi-vendor, multi-protocol network environments.
  • Design routing, switching, wireless, SD-WAN, security, and cloud networking solutions.
  • Define standards for network infrastructure and operational consistency.
  • Lead major network transformations and modernization projects.
  • Serve as escalation point for critical network incidents.
  • Perform advanced troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
  • Develop proactive monitoring and observability strategies.
  • Drive reliability, availability, and performance improvements.
  • Design and implement network automation solutions.
  • Develop tools, scripts, and workflows that eliminate manual effort.
  • Improve service delivery through orchestration and Infrastructure-as-Code methodologies.
  • Drive efficiency initiatives across engineering and operations teams.
  • Design and implement network security architectures.
  • Lead remediation efforts related to vulnerabilities and compliance requirements.
  • Provide guidance on segmentation, access control, encryption, and zero-trust initiatives.
  • Support audit and governance programs.
  • Mentor Network Engineers and Operations personnel.
  • Provide technical leadership during projects and service reviews.
  • Develop best practices, standards, and engineering documentation.
  • Participate in technical roadmap planning and strategic discussions.
  • Interface with executive leadership, project teams, vendors, and customers.
  • Translate business requirements into technical solutions.
  • Lead customer design sessions and technical reviews.
  • Support business development and solution architecture activities.
  • Identify opportunities for service expansion or optimization and support upsell initiatives where applicable.
  • Other duties as assigned.

Required Education, Knowledge, and Experience:
  • Bachelor's degree or qualification in an IT related discipline or equivalent technical and business experience.
  • 7+ years of enterprise networking experience.
  • CCNP certification or equivalent experience.
  • Other experience or certifications valued
    • Cisco CCDE
    • Cisco CCIE
    • Fortinet NSE or higher
    • Juniper JNCIA or higher
    • Palo Alto PNSA or higher
  • Strong expertise in routing, switching, wireless, and network design principles
  • Strong experience supporting firewalls and VPN technologies.
  • Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, STP, OSPF, and BGP.
  • Experience with Azure, AWS, or hybrid cloud networking.
  • Experience with SD-WAN technologies.
  • Experience with network automation (Powershell, Python, Ansible, Terraform).
  • Experience in a managed services or service provider environment.
  • Network device firmware management.
  • Strong troubleshooting skills across OS, storage, and network layers
  • Experience with the following is valued but not required:
    • Monitoring technologies (LogicMonitor, Azure, Nectus, SolarWinds, etc.)
    • Network security technologies

Abilities and Skills:
  • Ability to adapt to a changing technical environment.
  • Ability to coach other members of team in their area of expertise.
  • Ability to communicate clearly with all team members and end-users.
  • Ability to work with a sense of urgency.
  • Customer-facing presentation and consulting skills.
  • Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
  • Ability to explain technical procedures in business terms.
  • Able to solve complex technical problems through sound and methodical troubleshooting.
  • Excellent written, oral and presentation skills.

Physical, Mental Requirements and Work Environment:
  • Candidates local in Indianapolis, work hybrid onsite work schedule, generally 3 days a week, and have dependable transport for any on-site visits required.
  • Will be on-call and expected to provide after-hours support as needed.
  • Must be able to work on a computer for long periods.
  • Travel to customer sites as needed. Not more than 25%.

Equipment Used:
  • Computer.
  • Headset.

Conditions of Employment:
  • Must pass post-offer, pre-employment background check and drug test.
  • Due to customer, contractual, regulatory, and/or export-control requirements, candidates must be U.S Citizens.
  • Must maintain required certification levels.


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