Senior Network Engineer, Office Technology

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In the posting’s own words

As a Senior Network Engineer on the Office Technology team, you will own major network services and complex multi-site initiatives from problem definition and design through implementation, migration, and stable operations. You will act as a technical anchor for the team, leading design reviews and difficult troubleshooting, improving standards and automation, and helping other engineers deliver high-quality work.

What it asks for · 9

• A deeply experienced, hands-on network engineer with strong knowledge of TCP/IP, routing, switching, VLANs, wireless, DNS, DHCP , firewalls, and enterprise network security
• Experienced designing and operating resilient network infrastructure across distributed offices or campus environments
• Skilled at diagnosing complex issues using packet captures, logs, flow data, dashboards, and vendor telemetry, and at reasoning from protocols and failure modes
• Comfortable building maintainable automation using scripting, APIs, infrastructure-as-code, version control, testing, and CI/CD practices
• Strong in production engineering practices, including observability, service objectives, capacity planning, change safety, incident response, and post-incident improvement
• Able to take ambiguous problems from problem statement to durable solution, balancing reliability, security, user experience, cost, and delivery speed
• A clear, concise communicator who can lead technical discussions, explain tradeoffs, and build alignment with technical and non-technical partners
• A thoughtful mentor who raises the quality of others’ work without becoming a bottleneck or creating unnecessary process
• Responsible in your use of AI-assisted engineering tools: you protect sensitive data, validate outputs, and know when deterministic automation is the safer choice

Also a plus

• Experience with Datadog or other observability platforms, including network device monitoring, flow analytics, synthetic testing, and service-level reporting
• Experience with Python, Ansible, Terraform, Git-based workflows, or network automation frameworks
• Experience with network access control, RADIUS or 802.1X, segmentation, VPNs, or identity-aware and zero-trust networking
• Experience delivering global office expansions, infrastructure refreshes, or complex migrations in a rapidly scaling organization

What the job covers

• Design resilient, scalable solutions across LAN , Wi-Fi, routing, switching, and office firewalls, with explicit failure domains, capacity assumptions, security controls, and migration paths
• Author RFCs and lead design reviews, clearly documenting goals, constraints, alternatives, decisions, risks, validation, rollout, and rollback
• Build production readiness into network changes through meaningful service objectives, monitoring, alerting, runbooks, capacity planning, failure testing, and operational handoff
• Design reusable automation for provisioning, configuration, policy, compliance, telemetry, and change validation, with appropriate testing, peer review, drift detection, staged rollout, and safe rollback
• Own, alongside other senior engineers and leadership, the health and lifecycle of major network services, using data to improve reliability, coverage, performance, security, supportability, and cost
• Lead difficult incidents and root-cause investigations, communicate clearly during high-impact events, and ensure follow-up work addresses systemic causes
• Evaluate technology and vendor options and make pragmatic recommendations grounded in operability, security, scalability, and business impact
• Partner closely with Security, IT Support, Endpoints, AV , Workplace, Construction, Infrastructure teams, and external vendors on cross-functional initiatives
• Mentor other engineers, delegate effectively, improve team standards and documentation, and raise the quality of design and operational practices
• Participate in operational support, incident response, and planned maintenance activities as appropriate for the team

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

• network11×
• design7×
• office7×
• experience6×
• security6×
• automation5×
• engineers5×
• technical5×
• infrastructure4×
• operational4×
• practices4×
• service4×
• technology4×
• testing4×
• change3×
• complex3×

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