Senior Network Design Engineer

Corebridge Financial • Houston, TX

5d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Network Design Engineer is a key technical role within the Network Services organization, responsible for designing, engineering, and planning the implementation of enterprise network solutions in a large-scale, regulated financial-services environment. This hands-on role partners closely with architecture, operations, security, cloud, application, managed services, vendor, and business teams to translate business, application, risk, audit, security, compliance, and operational needs into resilient, scalable, supportable, and cost-effective network designs. The scope includes data center, cloud connectivity, WAN, SD-WAN, SD-LAN, LAN, Wi-Fi, voice, internet, extranet, DDI, load balancing, firewall integration, VoIP, observability, automation, and emerging network technologies. The engineer will also develop design packages, reference architectures, scopes of work, implementation plans, change-readiness materials, risk reviews, rollback assessments, and operational handoff documentation to support successful delivery and long-term operational stability.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Network Engineering, or equivalent enterprise network experience.
• 10+ years of experience designing, engineering, deploying, or supporting enterprise and global network solutions across data center connectivity, complex enterprise routing and switching, SD-WAN, SD-LAN, LAN, Wi-Fi, VOIP, DDI, NAC, internet, extranet, firewall integration, and load-balancing environments.
• 5+ years of experience as a senior network design engineer, lead network engineer, solution engineer, or technical lead responsible for design execution, engineering decisions, implementation readiness, technical governance, and cross-team delivery of complex network infrastructure.
• Hands-on expertise in software-defined networking, enterprise network fabrics, policy-based networking, template-driven configuration, and modern platforms such as Cisco ACI, Arista, Aruba, Meraki, Juniper, Alkira, Equinix, and Megaport.
• Strong enterprise networking fundamentals across routing, switching, BGP, DDI (DNS/DHCP/IPAM), segmentation, high availability, resiliency patterns, ZTNA, and wireless-first office environments.
• Design and deploy resilient data center network fabrics using Cisco ACI, Arista spine-leaf architectures, Cloud Vision, segmentation, routing integration, high availability, and scalable data center connectivity patterns.
• Design and deliver branch and remote-site network solutions with Aruba Branch Suite capabilities for SD-WAN, LAN, wireless, and CP NAC; Meraki Branch Suite capabilities for SD-WAN, LAN, and wireless; and supporting services such as VOIP, internet, VPN, and operational telemetry.
• Leverage network automation and operational tooling to improve configuration compliance, deployment repeatability, validation, and observability using Python, NetBrain, NetScout, OpenText Network Automation, AppViewX, Spectrum, Cloud Vision, Aruba Central, scripting, API-based workflows, and templates.
• Integrate application delivery and network security capabilities, including F5 LTM/GTM, AppViewX, Palo Alto firewalls, WAF, DDoS protection, NAC/ClearPass, Netskope, related cloud proxy platforms, ZTNA concepts, and regulated-enterprise security controls

Nice To Haves

• Advanced networking certifications, such as CCNP, CCIE, Aruba, Arista, Juniper, cloud networking, or equivalent credentials, are preferred.
• Financial-services or other regulated-industry experience is highly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Assess business, application, security, compliance, and operational requirements; identify practical network solutions; and prepare recommendations supported by feasibility, risk, cost, benefit, CapEx, OpEx, lifecycle, and supportability analysis.
• Develop and execute design-to-deployment plans that meet scope, schedule, cost, quality, resiliency, change-control, implementation sequencing, rollback, compliance, and operational-readiness requirements.
• Assess, mitigate, troubleshoot, and resolve complex network issues using industry-standard tools and methods, including packet analysis, flow analysis, telemetry, configuration-drift reporting, monitoring dashboards, fault-domain isolation, RCA practices, and NetScout.
• Develop processes, standards, diagrams, and documentation that support design execution, operational readiness, troubleshooting, and knowledge transfer.
• Provide technical leadership for network design and delivery by guiding engineering decisions, coordinating implementation teams, resolving technical blockers, validating design assumptions, and ensuring solutions aligning with enterprise architecture, information security, audit, regulatory compliance, service reliability, vendor governance, and business objectives.
• Build strong partnerships across the organization and with vendor partners, collaborating with peers, leaders, managed services providers, IT Security, Technology Risk, and cross-functional stakeholders to drive alignment and execution.
• Mentor team members, build technical capability, foster a collaborative team environment, and communicate clearly through strong listening, writing, and verbal communication skills.
• Champion innovation lead change, and support continuous improvement across network design, delivery, operations, managed services, capacity planning, resiliency, service reliability, vendor performance, cost optimization, and operational controls.
• Manage multiple large, complex, and concurrent projects while applying agile delivery practices, project management fundamentals, attention to detail, research skills, and strong execution discipline.
• Lead small to mid-size technical delivery teams through design reviews, implementation planning, peer reviews, change preparation, testing, cutover coordination, operational acceptance, and post-implementation validation.

Benefits

• range of medical, dental and vision insurance plans
• mental health support
• wellness initiatives
• retirement benefits options
• competitive 401(k) Plan offers a generous dollar-for-dollar Company matching contribution of up to 6% of eligible pay and a Company contribution equal to 3% of eligible pay
• Confidential counseling services and resources are available to all employees.
• Matching charitable donations: Corebridge matches donations to tax-exempt organizations 1:1, up to $5,000.
• Employees may use up to 16 volunteer hours annually to support activities that enhance and serve communities where employees live and work.
• Eligible employees start off with at least 24 Paid Time Off (PTO) days

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior