NETWORK SYSTEMS ENGINEER, SR. (315A111026)

Infinite Campus•Minneapolis, MN

3d•$145,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Network Systems Engineer, Sr. provides advanced technical expertise and leadership in designing, implementing, optimizing, and evolving Infinite Campus’s enterprise network infrastructure. The role leads complex initiatives across LAN/WAN, datacenter, wireless, network security, and multi-datacenter environments, ensuring that solutions meet scalability, availability, performance, and security requirements. The engineer serves as a technical resource for complex, high-impact network challenges; leads critical incident investigations; coordinates post-incident reviews; and develops sustainable improvements to network resilience and operational effectiveness. The role also advances the network automation roadmap by identifying and prioritizing opportunities to reduce manual work and by promoting Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Configuration as Code (CaC). It includes evaluating AI-powered technologies such as AI-assisted troubleshooting, AIOps, and automated documentation while maintaining security and operational safeguards. Working with engineering teams, technical leaders, and business stakeholders, the engineer provides architectural guidance, documents technical decisions, mentors engineers, contributes to hiring and technical evaluations, and helps establish network solutions and engineering practices for the organization’s long-term needs. The position is based onsite at the company’s headquarters in Blaine, Minnesota.

Requirements

Extensive technical knowledge and demonstrated experience designing, implementing, securing, and optimizing complex enterprise network environments.
Experience with advanced routing and switching, datacenter fabrics, wireless networking, WAN/SD-WAN, network security, and cloud networking technologies.
Proficiency with enterprise networking platforms, routing protocols, network architecture patterns, firewall and VPN technologies, network segmentation, and infrastructure capacity and resilience planning.
Advanced network automation capabilities, including developing and maintaining solutions using Ansible, Terraform, Jinja2, Python, Bash, source control, and network platform APIs.
Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Configuration as Code (CaC), automation testing, code review practices, and scalable engineering standards.
Deep expertise in at least one network engineering domain and the ability to evaluate architectural alternatives, understand design tradeoffs, and solve complex technical problems.
Strong incident leadership, technical documentation, stakeholder communication, mentoring, and collaboration skills.
Ability to communicate architectural decisions through design documents and Architecture Decision Records.
An associate's degree or higher in Information Technology, Computer Networking, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent hands-on network engineering experience.

Nice To Haves

Experience evaluating AI-assisted engineering tools and applying emerging technologies to improve network operations.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, optimize, and evolve enterprise network infrastructure.
Lead complex network engineering initiatives across LAN/WAN, datacenter, wireless, network security, and multi-datacenter environments.
Ensure network solutions meet scalability, availability, performance, and security requirements.
Resolve complex, high-impact network challenges and lead critical incident investigations.
Coordinate post-incident reviews and develop sustainable improvements to network resilience and operational effectiveness.
Drive the network automation roadmap by identifying opportunities to eliminate manual processes and prioritizing improvements based on risk and business value.
Advance Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Configuration as Code (CaC) as standard engineering practices.
Evaluate AI-powered technologies, including AI-assisted troubleshooting, AIOps, and automated documentation, while maintaining appropriate security and operational safeguards.
Provide architectural guidance and document technical decisions.
Mentor engineers, contribute to hiring and technical evaluations, and help establish network engineering practices.