Senior QC Network Engineer

The Timberline Group•Edwardsville, IL

8d•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior QC Network Engineer serves as the final technical review and quality gate for network devices before shipment. The role reviews configurations across Fortinet, Juniper, and Cradlepoint platforms, validates them against detailed runbooks and standards, and provides real-time oversight and coaching to engineers during staging and build activities without directly performing configurations. The position owns and continually improves runbooks for the full device build lifecycle, ensuring they reflect the current 35-step configuration standard. It maintains technical documentation, templates, checklists, and reference materials for a highly manual environment involving 16 source systems and approximately 25 required data points per device. The engineer also communicates quality status and findings to internal and customer stakeholders and partners with project managers, logistics teams, and senior engineers throughout the build and shipping lifecycle. This is an onsite, five-days-a-week role. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or green card holders and work on W-2; C2C is not accepted.

Requirements

Demonstrated depth in at least one of the following: runbook creation, ownership, and execution in real deployment environments; technical documentation engineers can reliably execute; or quality control or quality process ownership in a network engineering context.
Experience with at least one deployment background: large-scale circuit rollouts including cellular, DIA, or WAN; enterprise firewall deployments across multiple sites; or enterprise routing and switching deployments.
Eight or more years of progressive network engineering experience, with senior engineer or architect-level exposure.
Strong foundational understanding of networking, including circuits, routing, switching, VLAN design, and centralized management platforms.
Strong change control mindset emphasizing process discipline and quality outcomes.
Excellent written communication skills and customer-facing professionalism.
Must be a U.S. citizen or green card holder.
Must work on W-2; C2C is not accepted.
Must work onsite five days a week.

Nice To Haves

Experience with FortiManager or similar centralized network management platforms.
Familiarity with Fortinet, Juniper, or Cradlepoint environments.
Experience supporting large-scale, repeatable network deployment programs.

Responsibilities

Perform pre-shipment quality control reviews of network device configurations across Fortinet, Juniper, and Cradlepoint platforms.
Serve as the final technical review and quality gate before devices are released for shipment.
Validate configurations against detailed, multistep runbooks and standards to identify errors, omissions, and deviations.
Provide real-time oversight and coaching to engineers during staging and build activities without directly performing configurations.
Review, validate, and continuously improve technical runbooks covering the full device build lifecycle.
Ensure runbooks accurately reflect the current 35-step configuration standard.
Update documentation when issues are discovered so lessons learned are captured and reused.
Ensure deviations are documented, reviewed, and approved in accordance with change control practices.
Develop and maintain clear technical documentation that engineers can follow without prior project context.
Document the systems involved in the build process, including 16 source systems and approximately 25 required data points per device.
Create templates, checklists, and reference materials to reduce risk and improve consistency.
Communicate quality control status, readiness, and outcomes to internal and customer stakeholders.
Provide written and verbal updates on findings, exceptions, and resolutions.
Partner with project managers, logistics teams, and senior engineers throughout the device build and shipping lifecycle.