Senior Network Engineer

Location:

Cleveland, OH Cleveland-Cliffs is seeking a hands-on Senior IT Network Engineer to design, deploy, and maintain the enterprise network, with a strong emphasis on the automation and observability solutions that keep it reliable, secure, and supportable. Reporting to the IT Network Manager and working alongside a team of experienced Network and Network Security Engineers, this senior role is automation-first — treating manual, repetitive work as a problem to be solved through code, orchestration, and intelligent tooling.

The engineer brings a Dev Ops mindset to network operations (Net Dev Ops ), applying version control, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing to how the network is built, changed, and validated. Security is embedded in the work: the engineer builds visibility and automation that strengthen the organization's security posture and support rapid detection and response across corporate, mining, and steelmaking operations in a multi-site environment.

As a senior member of the team, the engineer serves as a technical leader and mentor and is curious about how emerging AI-based technologies can improve network operations and security. Success in this role is measured by execution: automation delivered, visibility improved, and incidents detected and resolved quickly. This position is critical in supporting the success of Cleveland-Cliffs and provides excellent opportunity for career growth and progression.

Summary of Responsibilities Develop, maintain, and optimize our monitoring and observability infrastructure — including monitoring, logging, and tracing capabilities — to ensure high availability, scalability, and security

Design and build automation to streamline deployment, configuration, monitoring, and incident response, reducing manual effort and improving consistency across the environment

Apply Dev Ops practices to network operations — including version control, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing and validation — to deliver changes faster and more reliably

Manage network configurations and automation code in source control, with peer review, change tracking, and repeatable, auditable deployment workflows

Build and maintain security monitoring, alerting, and telemetry that improve threat visibility, support detection and response, and feed security operations and incident response workflows

Automate security-related tasks such as configuration compliance, firewall and access policy validation, device hardening, and patch and firmware remediation to enforce cybersecurity standards at scale

Apply AI-based technologies and analytics to improve anomaly detection, event correlation, root cause analysis, and predictive network operations

Serve as a hands-on technical resource for complex configuration, troubleshooting, and escalation activities in production environments

Execute automation and observability initiatives end to end — scoping, scheduling, tracking milestones, and delivering on commitment dates

Partner with Cyber Security and plant engineering teams on secure network operations, including visibility and segmentation between IT and operational technology (OT) environments

Support network security operations by providing the monitoring data, automation, and integrations needed for firewall, NAC, VPN, and segmentation technologies

Continuously research, evaluate, and recommend new automation, Dev Ops, observability, security, and AI-driven tools and technologies that improve the reliability, security, and supportability of the network environment

Report project status, risks, and operational and security metrics to leadership on a regular cadence

Support a 24x7x365 fast-paced operational environment, including participation in on-call escalation

Travel to other Cleveland-Cliffs locations as required (approximately 10%)Perform other duties as assigned; responsibilities may evolve with business needs, technical developments, or operational requirements

Minimum Qualifications Bachelor's degree from an accredited four-year college or university, or equivalent combination of education and experience

Strong hands-on network…