Senior Network Engineer

Job Title: Network Engineer

Tampa Florida

Full-time

General Description:

The Senior Network Engineer is a key member of the infrastructure team responsible for the design engineering optimization and long term reliability of the organizations network infrastructure. This role provides technical leadership across routing switching firewalling wireless WAN and hybrid connectivity environments to ensure secure resilient and scalable network services that support business operations.

The Senior Network Engineer serves as the highest level escalation point for complex or critical network issues leading root cause analysis and driving permanent corrective addition to hands on engineering responsibilities this role establishes network standards contributes to architectural decisions and mentors Network Engineers and Network Administrators. The position collaborates closely with security cloud and application teams to align network solutions with enterprise architecture security requirements and business objectives.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Network Architecture & Engineering Leadership

• Lead the design engineering and evolution of enterprise network architectures supporting LAN WAN data center cloud and remote connectivity environments.
• Translate business and application requirements into scalable secure and resilient network solutions.
• Serve as a technical authority for network standards architecture decisions and engineering best practices.

Advanced Implementation & Technical Oversight

• Lead complex network implementations migrations and large scale upgrades including routing switching firewall wireless SD WAN and VPN technologies.
• Review and approve network configurations and changes implemented by Network Engineers and Network Administrators.
• Ensure new solutions are fully tested documented and transitioned into operational support.

Escalation & Root Cause Ownership

• Act as the highest level escalation point for complex or critical network incidents and performance issues.
• Perform deep root cause analysis across network security and infrastructure layers.
• Drive permanent corrective actions and preventative improvements to reduce operational risk and downtime.

Network Security & Risk Alignment

• Design and enforce network security architectures including segmentation firewall policy strategy secure remote access and zero trust networking principles.
• Partner with security compliance and audit teams to ensure network designs meet regulatory risk and governance requirements.
• Support security incident response activities involving network infrastructure.

Performance Optimization & Capacity Strategy

• Analyze long term traffic trends utilization and performance metrics to guide network optimization and investment decisions.
• Lead capacity planning efforts and roadmap development for future growth cloud adoption and technology refresh cycles.
• Identify opportunities for cost optimization without compromising performance or security.

Documentation Standards & Governance

• Own and maintain authoritative network architecture documentation diagrams standards and engineering guidelines.
• Define and enforce network engineering standards to ensure consistency reliability and operational excellence.
• Ensure documentation supports audit readiness disaster recovery and knowledge transfer.

Mentorship & Cross Team Collaboration

• Mentor and provide technical leadership to Network Engineers and Network Administrators.
• Collaborate with IT leadership infrastructure application and cloud teams on strategic initiatives.
• Serve as the primary technical interface with vendors service providers and external engineering partners.

Supplemental Information:

This job description has been prepared to indicate the general nature and level of the work that the employees perform within their classification. This description is not and cannot be interpreted as an inventory of all the duties tasks responsibilities and qualifications required for the employees assigned to this job.

Education and / or Experience:

Education

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology Engineering or a related technical field is strongly preferred.
• Equivalent hands on experience may be considered in lieu of a formal degree.

Experience

• 10 years of overall IT experience with at least 6 7 years in progressively senior network engineering roles.
• Demonstrated expertise in enterprise networking concepts including:
  • Advanced routing and switching (Layer 2/3)
  • TCP/IP DNS DHCP VPN and WAN technologies
  • Firewall platforms network segmentation and security architecture
• Proven experience designing and supporting complex multi site hybrid (on prem and cloud) network environments.
• Strong background in performance engineering capacity planning and high availability network design.
• Hands on experience with network monitoring observability and performance analytics tools.
• Familiarity with cloud networking virtualization SD WAN and software defined networking technologies.

Certifications (Preferred)

• Professional or expert level networking certifications such as JNCIP/JNCIE or equivalent are strongly preferred.
• Security or cloud networking certifications are a plus but not required.