Senior Systems Engineering Analyst

MGIC•Milwaukee, WI

3d•$105,590 - $179,510

About The Position

The Senior Platform Engineer, Network, designs, builds, and continually improves secure, reliable, and automated network services supporting MGIC’s business. The role spans campus, WAN, wireless, data center connectivity, and cloud environments, partnering with architecture, infrastructure, security, and application teams to turn approved designs into engineered, supportable solutions. It also provides technical leadership, mentors fellow engineers, and contributes to the long-term direction of the network platform.

Requirements

At least 7 years of progressive experience in network engineering, infrastructure engineering, network operations, or a closely related field.
Advanced knowledge of routing, switching, wireless, network segmentation, DNS, DHCP, IPAM, firewalls, load balancing, packet analysis, BGP, and other relevant routing protocols.
Experience supporting complex campus, WAN, data center, cloud, and hybrid network environments.
Practical experience with Python or comparable scripting languages, APIs, Git, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD or GitOps practices.
Experience implementing and using monitoring, telemetry, logging, and alerting tools, and defining and tracking network performance measures.
Ability to translate approved architecture into practical detailed solutions and troubleshoot complex issues across platforms and teams.
Strong communication, collaboration, and documentation skills, including demonstrated mentoring and technical leadership abilities.
Curiosity, commitment to continuous learning, and a habit of staying current with network, cloud, and automation technologies and applying new knowledge to improve the platform.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Arista networking, BlueCat DNS/DHCP/IPAM, Palo Alto firewalls, Kemp load balancers, Aruba wireless, or Citrix networking technologies.
Experience designing or supporting network connectivity in AWS, Azure, GCP, or comparable cloud environments.
Experience with network automation, configuration compliance, automated testing, and reliability-focused operating practices.
Experience in regulated or highly available environments and understanding of ITIL, Agile, Lean, or SRE principles.
Relevant industry certifications in networking, cloud, security, or automation.

Responsibilities

Engineer, maintain, and improve core, campus, wireless, DNS, DHCP, IPAM, firewall, load balancing, data center connectivity, and cloud network services, emphasizing security, performance, and resilience.
Translate approved architecture into detailed designs, automation, and clear documentation, delivering solutions that operations teams can support.
Strengthen reliability through observability, disciplined operational practices, incident response, root cause analysis, participation in the on-call rotation, and lifecycle management.
Identify risks, capacity needs, technical debt, and modernization opportunities, and apply those insights to service roadmaps and future investments.
Partner with teams across Technology Services, mentor and develop engineers, share knowledge, and influence technical decisions through expertise and trust.