Senior Network Engineer Details | Family of Companies

Senior Network Engineer

Location:

Overland Park, KS;
Houston, TX;
Greenwood Village, CO;
Bloomington, MN;
Orlando, FL;
Phoenix, AZ;
Cary, NC;
Dallas, TX;
Ann Arbor, MI;
Tualatin, OR.

Company:
Black & Veatch Family of Companies

The Senior Network Engineer supports the Senior Network Architect in designing, developing, and evolving the enterprise network infrastructure. This role translates business and technical requirements into secure, scalable, and highly available architecture across branch offices, data centers, and cloud environments. The Senior Network Engineer collaborates closely with business, IT, engineering, application, and information security teams, contributing to strategic network designs and modernization initiatives.

It includes implementing modern networking solutions, supporting office moves, troubleshooting, configuration, and ensuring alignment with organizational goals, performance standards, and security best practices.

Black & Veight’s Business Enablement consists of critical groups that help enable organizations, people, projects, and businesses to be as successful as possible. Functions in this group include Digital & Information Technology, Global Finance, Global Human Resources, Legal, Risk Management, Government Affairs, and Real Estate and Building Services.

• Maintain contact and build relationships with operating businesses, IT management, IT vendors, and technical architects to ensure availability, security, and satisfaction.
• Assist in identifying new and improved approaches, technologies, tools, templates, and business use cases.
• Support deployment and configuration of a complex Network Infrastructure environment.
• Assess on‑prem data centers, office locations, and clouds for network capacity, connectivity, performance, and resiliency.
• Lead Networking Break‑Fix situations with multiple team members including managed service provider partners.
• Maintain broad‑based technical and solutions knowledge in key networking optimization and solution areas including:
• Enterprise routing solutions
• Cisco SDWAN
• Cisco Catalyst Center
• Network segmentation
• VPN concentration
• Networking expertise across a hybrid cloud environment (On‑Premise, Azure, AWS, OCI).
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) / Networking Automation.

Supervise work of others; responsible for hiring, discipline, and pay administration of subordinates.

• Networking – Cloud & On‑Premise.
• Understanding of network security and firewall policy.
• ITIL environment, formal change processes, systems development lifecycle processes, and production of requirements documentation and evidence (Service Now experience a plus).
• 2+ years of Infrastructure‑as‑Code (IaC).
• Extensive understanding of routing architecture.
• Extensive understanding of Cisco networking products.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.

• Advanced knowledge in routing protocols and switching technologies (On‑Prem & Cloud) such as BGP, OSPF, IS‑IS, OMP, VXLAN.
• Advanced knowledge of Cisco SDWAN.
• Advanced knowledge of Cisco Catalyst Center.
• Knowledge of Zero Trust Experience technologies.
• Cisco Wireless experience for Wi‑Fi 6E using predictive site tools.
• Network authentication utilizing Cisco ISE.
• Experience in implementing network observability and monitoring platforms such as Cisco Thousand Eyes, Solar Winds Network Performance Monitor, or similar tools.
• Scripting/Coding and automation using tools such as Power Shell, Python, Ansible, Terraform, etc.

• Experience in leading the delivery of assessments, development of business cases, and solution architecture.
• Experience with multi‑phased, complex migration programs that address technology, people/organization, and process change.
• Strong written skills – able to create concise and structured recommendations for total solutions as well as simplifying systems architectures.
• Dynamic and engaging presentation style that commands respect, inspires confidence, earns trust, and simplifies complex information.
• Strong business engagement and customer relationship management.
• Demonstrated proficiency with technical architecture,…