The Senior Network Engineer is responsible for managing, designing and improving RJ’s enterprise network. He or she will assist network architects with design and implementation of network technologies. This role is responsible for senior level network engineering implementation and providing technical principles guidance to peer engineers, proactively taking technology project delivery from 0 to 100% with little to no supervision. General duties include leading buildout of solutions and driving innovation for implementation of new modern technologies in the enterprise network. Partners with management and peer engineers to drive infrastructure modernization projects to completion and provides Tier3 technical support using extensive expertise to take on work assignments the team is engaged in. Strong people skills and the ability to balance/prioritize between multiple tasks and projects are essential. This position does involve both routing and switching as well as network firewall implementation projects for both on-prem and cloud infrastructure.

Design, improve and innovate:

• Primary focus is to implement new technologies or changes to existing technologies as identified and designed by the architecture team.
• Researches and recommends innovative technologies and approaches for enterprise infrastructure management, upgrades, or improvements.
• Utilize and integrate network components such as switches, routers, firewalls, wireless AP/Controllers, SDN fabric components, load balancers, NAC servers and cloud infrastructure network elements.
• Proactively identify and implement network improvements to assure the performance, resiliency and redundancy of the network.
• Utilizes blueprints to engineer solutions and adhere to enterprise standards (engineering focused, architecture supported).
• Take disaster recovery and business continuity plan aspects into consideration for any new technology implementation or change.

Monitor, document and offer proactive support:

• Provides ad-hoc support for incidents requiring T3 level resources (engineering/architecture) and knowledge.
• Use Microsoft Visio to produce and maintain documentation with regards to implementation of new systems or system changes
• Participate in 24x7 on call rotation for SME T3 support requirements as needed.
• Maintains service level agreements of departmental metrics, key performance indicators and adhering to strict project timelines.
• Maintain/Improve security posture, promptly addressing issues, vulnerabilities and security requirements according to regulatory guidelines (PCIDSS, PII, CIS, NIST)

Collaborate and coach:

• Work collaboratively across a variety of business units to implement new technologies.
• Coordinate and take lead of assigned projects in all technical and communication aspects.
• Collaborate with peer engineers towards achieving common goals in assigned projects.
• Coach peer engineers and effectively perform knowledge transfer/cross training activities.