Sr Design Engineer

About Our Company We’re a diversified financial services leader with more than $1.5 trillion in assets under management, administration and advisement as of year-end 2024. Our team of 22,000 people across 19 countries, serves more than 3.5 million individual, small business and institutional clients. We are a longstanding leader in financial planning and advice, a global asset manager and an insurer.

Our unwavering focus on our clients and strong financial foundation connects each of our unique businesses – Ameriprise Financial, Columbia Threadneedle Investments and River Source Insurance and Annuities. Here, we foster meaningful careers, invest in the future, and make a difference for clients, institutions and communities around the world.

Job Description Provide technical expertise and direction in developing and supporting business and technology systems that run in our IBM Mainframe environment. Support complex enterprise architectures by developing, designing, configuring and implementing detailed engineering strategies/solutions that meet and/or exceed capability, flexibility, scalability, performance and reliability objectives for a variety of large projects, across multiple technologies, within technical area of expertise. Provide technical leadership to team/vendor/contractor resources, ensuring viability of designs, flawless execution, and seamless transition into the production environment.

Key Responsibilities Independently perform highly complex assignments.

Network design, architecture, management, and deployment of new and existing routing and switching within campus and data center networks.

Lead proper execution of network changes & updates in accordance with corporate security policies to meet business requirements.

Responsible for network performance and security monitoring in addition to being able to troubleshoot network-related issues in a logical manner.

Research, recommend, and establish innovative solutions for proper capacity planning that scale with the business growth.

Where possible, introduce automation for daily routine administrative tasks.

Collaborates with all Information Technology disciplines.

Creates, maintains, and updates documentation with most relevant information.

Escalation resource during major incidents and outages as needed.

Perform other special project and duties as assigned.

Perform problem diagnosis, initiate problem resolution, and provide ongoing life-cycle support for network deployments and upgrades.

Collaborate with team members to ensure project scoping activities are aligned with architectural objectives.

Participate and provide input into the continual refinement of processes, policies, and best practices to ensure optimal performance and availability of technologies.

Continuously develop specialized knowledge and technical subject matter expertise by remaining apprised of industry trends, the direction of emerging technologies, and their potential value to the business.

Required Qualifications:

Bachelors degree in computer science or related field; or equivalent work experience.

Minimum 7-10 years of network design and engineering experience required.

Strong analytical and customer service abilities.

Ability to communicate and articulate technical information across various organizational levels.

Strong thought leadership abilities and a highly innovative problem solver.

Ability to coach and mentor experienced Network engineering staff.

Preferred Qualifications:

Firewalls
- Palo Alto, Cisco ASAF5 - Big IP, LTM, GTM, ASMDDI, DNS, DHCP, IPAM, NTPInfoblox, CloudFlareDDoS
- Akamai, AWS, Azure, Cloud Flare Cloud  Networking - AWS, Azure Automation & scripting

Routing, Switching Network monitoring, Net Flow, capacity management

Packet capture and analysis
- Gigastor, Wireshark Visa Sponsorship Applicants must have a valid work authorization that does not now, or in the future, require visa sponsorship for employment in the United States (e.g., H-1B, F-1 CPT, F-1 OPT, TN).In-Office Collaboration We are a client-centric, relationship-based business. Working together, in-person, is foundational to how we achieve results. By fostering a culture of face-to-face…