Senior Network Engineer

Overview

Senior Network Engineer responsible for advanced technical design, strategic planning, operation, and maintenance of Bread Financial's network infrastructure, ensuring network continuity and alignment with organizational goals.

What you'll do

• Lead the design and strategic planning of robust network architectures that align with organizational goals, ensuring scalability and future growth.
• Develop comprehensive guidelines and standards to optimize network performance.
• Lead the development of standards, policies, and procedures; assist in annual audit processes as needed in support of senior associates.
• Ensure system improvements are successfully implemented and monitored to gain the greatest efficiencies.
• Guide the team, follow and contribute to all defined QA processes, and analyze network infrastructure components for performance, cost effectiveness and availability.
• Contribute to network projects related to technology pilots, conversions and implementations; support medium to large projects based on project management experience and competencies.
• Sustain the necessary data throughput rate by analyzing networking activity and maintaining existing equipment.
• Provide 24x7 on-call support in troubleshooting, coordinating and escalating to ensure recovery of failed components or equipment.
• Establish and maintain relationships with outside vendors of IT&O products, professional organizations, contract employees, external auditors, and consultants.
• Implement and manage advanced security measures, including firewalls and intrusion detection systems, to protect network infrastructure.
• Ensure adherence to industry regulations and compliance standards such as GDPR and PCI-DSS.
• Conduct regular performance tuning and capacity planning to maintain optimal network efficiency.
• Analyze network activity to forecast growth and ensure infrastructure scalability.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, management information systems, or related technology field, or equivalent work experience.
• One cloud certification: AWS Cloud Practitioner, Microsoft Azure Fundamentals, or Google Cloud Digital Leader.
• 5-8 years of experience in network administration and network infrastructure.
• Skills: Cisco Command Line Interface, network design, Palo Alto, Cisco SD-WAN, network troubleshooting, IP routing, network security, VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP), Cisco routers and switches, TCP/IP networking, network monitoring, firewall security.

Nice to have

• Certification: Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP).
• 8-10 years of experience in network administration, network infrastructure management, complex network and firewall engineering.
• Ability to work with multi-location and global teams.

Details

• Work environment: normal office environment, hybrid.
• Reports to: Manager and above. Direct reports: 0.
• Job family: Information Technology. Job type: Regular.