Senior Network Engineer

Inizio Partners Corp • New York, NY

4d • Onsite

About The Position

The CUNY Central Office is seeking a Specialist Level III – Senior Network Engineer for an onsite position at 395 Hudson Street, New York, NY. This role is for approximately one year, starting around October 21, 2026, with standard hours of 9 am–5 pm EST, plus on-call availability for after-hours and weekend work as needed. The position requires regular travel to CUNY campuses across the five NYC boroughs and Long Island. The candidate must be legally authorized to work in the US.

Requirements

• 7+ years hands-on Senior Network Engineer experience
• Cisco Optical Network Solutions (ONS): troubleshooting with Cisco TAC, onsite hardware swaps/installs, fiber cabling (troubleshoot, clean, replace)
• Cisco Catalyst and Nexus route/switch, Cisco ASR routing
• BGP (iBGP/eBGP), OSPF/EIGRP, TCP/IP, VLANs, subnetting, DNS, DHCP, NAT, VPN, firewalls, load balancers, IPAM
• Intermediate Cisco and Meraki Wi-Fi (incl. Aironet)
• Packet capture and traffic flow analysis; structured root cause analysis
• Network automation using Ansible, Terraform, Python, Bash, PowerShell, Git or similar (config backup, compliance, drift detection, provisioning)
• Senior escalation point; mentoring junior engineers

Nice To Haves

• Network-as-Code exposure a plus

Responsibilities

• Day-to-day operations across ONS, Catalyst, Nexus, ASR, Aironet and Meraki; LAN/WAN and cloud connections
• Writing MOPs, submitting and implementing changes in ServiceNow
• Incident response, ticket management, Cisco TAC and carrier coordination
• Field replacement of failed ONS modules at CUNY sites
• Training and knowledge transfer to CUNY network engineering/NOC staff

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed