Senior Network Engineer
On-sitePittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Job Summary
Manage and maintain hybrid network infrastructure spanning physical offices, distributed sites, and AWS cloud connectivity, including Meraki switches, Palo Alto firewalls, and Starlink links. Design office and site networks with switching, routing, and wireless coverage while tuning RF deployments and troubleshooting Layer 1 through Layer 7 issues using packet captures. Automate infrastructure changes via Terraform and contribute to CI/CD pipelines to prevent configuration drift. Serve as the technical escalation point for production incidents, participating in on-call rotation and leading outage investigations. Partner with engineering teams to troubleshoot connectivity in Kubernetes environments and validate security policies before production deployment.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of progressively senior network engineering experience
- deep hands-on ownership of physical network infrastructure (switching, routing, wireless, firewalls)
- 5+ years of experience administering enterprise wireless and switching platforms
- preferably Cisco Meraki, including Dashboard operations, switch stacks, VLAN design, and RF tuning
- Hands-on Palo Alto firewall experience including security policy design, NAT, IPSec/SSL VPN, and centralized management through Panorama
- Familiarity with Strata Cloud Manager
- Expert-level knowledge of enterprise network protocols: BGP, OSPF, STP, VLANs, IPSec, DNS, SNMP, DHCP
- ability to troubleshoot each protocol from the command line
- Strong AWS networking experience: VPC architecture, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, Site-to-Site VPN, Security Groups, Route 53, and VPC peering
- Ability to design and operate a multi-VPC environment connected to physical sites
- Proficiency in Terraform for production network infrastructure
- Experience with Terragrunt, CloudFormation, or Ansible
- Methodical, command-line-first troubleshooting: you read packet captures, you live in tcpdump and traceroute, and you can find the needle across the whole stack
- Solid Linux fundamentals — you're comfortable in a shell and understand how the operating system interacts with the network
- Microservices and Kubernetes networking awareness — you can troubleshoot service-to-service connectivity, DNS, ingress, and routing in container-based environments
- Strong incident ownership — you have led at least one major production network outage from detection through root cause to long-term fix
- Strong written and verbal communication for documentation, stakeholder updates, and post-incident reviews
- Comfortable working in the Eastern Time Zone
- Ability to travel up to 25% to office sites
Desired Qualifications
- Familiarity with Strata Cloud Manager is a plus
- Experience with Terragrunt, CloudFormation, or Ansible is a plus
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