Senior Network Engineer

Sonny's Enterprises•Tamarac, FL

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Network Engineer owns the reliability, security, supportability, and continuous improvement of the company network across corporate offices, manufacturing and field locations, internet services, remote access, and cloud environments. The role is hands-on and responsible for network design, implementation, monitoring, lifecycle maintenance, incident response, vendor coordination, documentation, and secure connectivity to Azure and other cloud services. The position partners closely with Global Platform Engineering, Cybersecurity, Technology Operations, application teams, and business stakeholders.

Requirements

Communicates clearly, succinctly, and professionally with technical and non-technical audiences.
Service Takes accountability for outcomes, follows through, and keeps stakeholders informed until work is complete.
Critical Uses evidence, structured troubleshooting, and sound judgment to identify root causes and select effective solutions.
Works productively across teams, shares knowledge, accepts feedback, and raises issues that limit service effectiveness.
Balances incidents, requests, recurring operations, and project commitments against business impact and agreed service levels.
Continuous Looks for repeatable work that can be documented, standardized, automated, or shifted to the appropriate support level.
Strong hands-on knowledge of TCP/IP, routing, switching, VLANs, wireless, DHCP, DNS, NAT, VPN, firewalls, segmentation, network monitoring, and troubleshooting.
Experience administering enterprise firewalls, switches, wireless platforms, SD-WAN or cellular connectivity, and network management tools.
Working knowledge of Azure, AWS networking including VNets, subnets, NSGs, route tables, DNS, peering, private endpoints, hybrid connectivity, and edge services.
Experience with network change management, incident response, root-cause analysis, diagrams, configuration standards, and lifecycle maintenance.
Scripting or automation experience using PowerShell, Python, APIs, infrastructure as code, or network automation frameworks.
Ability to travel to company locations and participate in on-call or after-hours work.
Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
5-8 years of progressive enterprise network engineering or network operations experience; candidates with strong mid-level experience and demonstrated senior-level capability may be considered.
Experience supporting multi-site environments and cloud or hybrid network connectivity.

Nice To Haves

CCNA, CCNP, Azure Network Engineer Associate, firewall vendor, security, or equivalent certifications.
Experience with Cloudflare, Azure Front Door, AWS internet circuit management, manufacturing networks, IoT, or network observability platforms.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, configure, support, and optimize LAN, WAN, wireless, internet, SD-WAN, routing, switching, DHCP, DNS, NAT, and site connectivity services.
Administer and maintain firewalls, network switches, wireless access points, cellular or Cradlepoint connectivity, VPN services, and related network appliances.
Plan and execute firmware, operating system, configuration, certificate, and hardware lifecycle maintenance using approved change practices.
Monitor availability, performance, capacity, configuration health, and security events; investigate alerts and remediate conditions before they become business-impacting incidents.
Maintain resilient connectivity for offices, manufacturing, customer-facing services, remote users, and critical business systems.
Design, review, implement, and document firewall policies, access control lists, segmentation, secure remote access, site-to-site VPNs, and network security standards.
Process and validate VPN access, firewall exception, DNS filtering, corporate domains, customer domain, and connectivity requests with appropriate approvals and least privilege controls.
Partners with Cybersecurity on network threat response, vulnerability remediation, logging, monitoring, privileged access, configuration standards, and audit evidence.
Investigate connectivity, authentication, certificate, and policy issues across users, devices, applications, locations, and cloud services.
Design and support Azure/AWS virtual networks, subnets, route tables, network security groups, private endpoints, DNS, peering, hub-and-spoke patterns, VPN or private connectivity, and hybrid network services.
Coordinate cloud network changes with Global Platform Engineering, application teams, and security teams to ensure availability, supportability, and controlled access.
Support Azure Front Door or comparable edge services, external DNS, Cloudflare, domain registrars, and customer-facing domain mappings within assigned ownership.
Troubleshoot Azure/AWS networking, access-list, name-resolution, service endpoint, and hybrid connectivity issues using structured diagnostics.
Lead or support restoration for network outages and performance events, including stakeholder updates, vendor escalation, service validation, and after-action documentation.
Create implementation plans, risk assessments, validation steps, rollback plans, and post-change evidence for network changes.
Perform root-cause analysis for recurring or high-impact network incidents and drive corrective actions through completion.
Participate in an on-call rotation and planned after-hours maintenance as required.
Maintain accurate network diagrams, inventories, IP address documentation, circuit records, configurations, standards, runbooks, support procedures, and vendor contacts.
Automate repeatable network tasks, configuration validation, reporting, backups, or compliance checks using PowerShell, Python, APIs, or network automation tools where appropriate.
Manage ISP and carrier relationships, circuit inventory, outage coordination, renewals, implementation schedules, and escalation paths.
Plan refreshes, capacity improvements, cost savings, standards, spares, licensing, and technical debt remediation based on risk and business need.
Provide network engineering for new sites, site moves, acquisitions, manufacturing or IoT deployments, application migrations, cloud projects, and infrastructure modernization.
Gather requirements, develop designs and estimate, coordinate implementation, test end-to-end connectivity, and transition solutions into support.
Communicate technical constraints, risks, dependencies, and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.