Elite Network Engineer

Logicalis•Location, WV

7d•$82,110 - $105,306

About The Position

The Elite Network Engineer designs, deploys, manages, and troubleshoots complex network infrastructure for a diverse portfolio of business clients. The role requires multi-tenant engineering expertise, rapid problem-solving across varied environments, and strong client-facing communication. As a technical escalation point, the engineer leads network architecture projects and helps ensure high availability and security for clients. The position supports and optimizes client networks across multiple vendor ecosystems and uses monitoring, service-management, and documentation tools to maintain visibility, track service-level agreements, and automate routine tasks. It also conducts network discovery assessments for prospective and new managed services clients, documents existing topologies, identifies risks, and develops remediation roadmaps. The engineer communicates with client stakeholders, internet service providers, and hardware vendors, and implements network security practices and relevant compliance standards. This role has no supervisory responsibilities. The salary compensation range is $82,110 to $105,306 per year.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in cybersecurity, information technology, business, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
At least 4 years of hands-on experience in a Network Engineer role, including at least 2 years in an MSP or multi-client consulting environment.
Deep understanding of BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, STP, VLANs, VXLAN, LACP, IPv4/IPv6, and QoS.
Proficiency with enterprise network hardware across multiple platforms, such as Cisco/Meraki, Fortinet, Palo Alto, HPE Aruba, and Ubiquiti.
Advanced hands-on experience with next-generation firewalls, site-to-site IPsec VPN tunnels, remote-access VPNs, and Network Access Control (NAC).
Experience with MSP-centric software such as ConnectWise, Autotask, Auvik, Datto, LogicMonitor, IT Glue, or Hudu.
Strong time-management and prioritization skills for competing client emergencies, and excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Nice To Haves

Active industry certifications such as CCNP Enterprise/Security, Fortinet NSE 4+, Palo Alto PCNSA/PCNSE, or Aruba Certified Switching Professional.
Hands-on experience configuring cloud networking constructs such as AWS VPC, Azure Virtual WAN, ExpressRoute, or Direct Connect.
Experience deploying and supporting SD-WAN solutions such as Fortinet SD-WAN, Cisco SD-WAN, Versa, or Velocloud.
Basic scripting skills in Python, Bash, PowerShell, or Ansible for network management and provisioning.

Responsibilities

Design, configure, and deploy scalable LAN, WAN, WLAN, and cloud-network architectures tailored to client needs.
Support, monitor, and optimize client networks across vendor ecosystems such as Cisco, Meraki, Fortinet, Aruba, and Palo Alto.
Serve as a Tier 2/3 technical escalation point for complex outages, routing issues, performance bottlenecks, and security events.
Use RMM, PSA, and network documentation tools to maintain visibility, track SLAs, and automate routine operational tasks.
Conduct network discovery assessments for prospective and new MSP clients, document network topologies, identify risks, and create remediation roadmaps.
Explain technical concepts to technical and non-technical client stakeholders; work with ISPs and hardware vendors to resolve service issues and manage RMA processes.
Implement and enforce network security practices, including firewall policies, IPsec/SSL VPNs, micro-segmentation, ZTNA, and compliance standards such as SOC 2, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS.
Promote Logicalis's mission and values through professional conduct.
Maintain knowledge of applicable laws, regulations, policies, and procedures and comply with them ethically and professionally.
Meet customer-service expectations.