Senior Network Engineer

About the Organization

A well-established, community-focused financial institution headquartered in the Bay Area, known for its personalized banking services and long-standing commitment to local communities. The organization offers a full range of financial products including personal and business banking, mortgage lending, and wealth management. It distinguishes itself through relationship-based service, local decision-making, and support for regional economic growth through philanthropic initiatives and community engagement.

The Senior Network Engineer performs activities required to design, build, deploy, and support the Enterprise LAN/WAN network and supporting branch operations, production data centers, applications, telephony and video systems, and other devices. This is a technical position that requires strong troubleshooting and analytical skills, combined with a keen ability to communicate well in both verbal and written form.

• Respond, troubleshoot, identify root causes, and remediate issues in a complete, documented, and timely manner.
• Ensure that appropriate monitoring, alerting, and logging mechanisms are in place and functioning optimally at all times.
• Ensure network devices are configured and maintained in accordance with appropriate standards, best practices, and regulatory compliance requirements. Utilize and follow the change management process for network changes.
• Provide Level 3 support to Network Operations for all LAN/WAN issues.
• Keep abreast of new technologies and recommend adoption as appropriate. Identify areas for automation or other process improvements.
• Participate in team on-call rotation and provide support during project and operations-related cutovers.
• Partner with business units to understand organizational needs and plan, design, implement, and support production data centers.
• Design, configure, implement, and support connectivity to leading Cloud providers per business requirements.
• Manage network uptime by auditing and enhancing network monitoring.
• Manage multiple high-visibility, high-impact projects simultaneously.
• Work with cross-functional teams supporting business applications and on-prem infrastructure and cloud.
• Proactively identify gaps, risks, and issues and navigate organizational structure to resolve them.
• Plan, design, and coordinate the implementation of WAN or Internet-related activities in support of defined requirements generated by business and growth demands.
• Validate project requirements, define project scope, develop project schedules, and produce detailed designs for assigned projects.
• Perform analysis and diagnosis of highly sophisticated networking problems related to WAN or Internet.
• Prepare and maintain up-to-date documentation detailing the deployed solutions.
• Plan and execute highly sophisticated network upgrades and migration activities.
• Assist with deployment and strategy of tools and related Network Management Systems.
• Provide mentorship for existing network team members as appropriate.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience).
• Requires traveling to Bay Area branch locations.
• Basic routing, switching, VPN, wireless, firewall skills, and troubleshooting network knowledge.
• Expert knowledge of Cisco networking equipment and software — Cisco CCNA, CCNP, or equivalent work experience.
• Hands‑on Senior Network Engineer with over 4 years of experience in network design, architecture, and administration of multi‑platform LAN/WAN environments.
• Demonstrated ability to systematically troubleshoot problems in complex systems and network environments.
• Experience designing and supporting high‑availability networks in load‑balanced, n‑tier application environments.
• Experience supporting secure enterprise wireless networks, including Meraki knowledge and experience.
• 4+ years of experience with planning and design of customer‑facing production data centers.
• Strong knowledge and experience in IP networking, L2/L3 network protocols (spanning‑tree, OSPF, BGP), LAN/WAN, TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, routing, QoS, VLAN, ACL, NAC.
• Strong WAN background.
• SD‑WAN project implementation…