Senior Network Engineer

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Located in Starkville, MS

Salary: $95,000-$125,000

Job Summary

The Senior Network Engineer designs, implements, administers, and optimizes the company’s enterprise network and virtual infrastructure across domestic and international locations. This role ensures high availability, security, and performance of LAN, WAN, WLAN, SD-WAN, VPN, VMware, Azure, and related systems while providing technical leadership and supporting disaster recovery and strategic initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, configure, and support enterprise LAN, WAN, WLAN, SD-WAN, VPN, and virtual network environments.
• Administer VMware environments (ESXi, vCenter, HA, DRS, vMotion, and virtual switching).
• Manage Azure infrastructure, including VNets, subnets, NSGs, VPN/ExpressRoute, VMs, storage, and monitoring.
• Maintain and upgrade Cisco routers, switches, firewalls, and related hardware.
• Implement and maintain firewall policies, network segmentation, IPS/IDS, and secure remote-access solutions.
• Monitor performance, perform capacity planning, and support HP enterprise storage integrated with VMware.
• Lead troubleshooting, root cause analysis, backups, disaster recovery planning/testing, and documentation.
• Provide Tier III support, mentor junior staff, coordinate with vendors, and participate in on-call rotation as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.
• 7+ years of progressive enterprise networking experience.
• Advanced knowledge of networking protocols (BGP, OSPF, STP, QoS, IPsec) and Cisco/SD-WAN platforms.
• Strong experience with Palo Alto or equivalent firewalls, VMware vSphere, and Microsoft Azure (including hybrid connectivity).
• Experience with HP enterprise storage, network security architecture, and monitoring tools (e.g., PRTG, Logic Monitor, Wireshark).
• Ability to design scalable, resilient network architectures; strong communication and leadership skills.
• Relevant certifications (CCNP, CCIE, NSE, PCNSE, Network+, or Security+) preferred.

Special Requirements

• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally as needed.
• Participation in 24/7 on-call rotation and after-hours/weekend support.
• Demonstrated leadership and project management experience.

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