Senior Network Engineer

Convene is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and we believe that diverse teams are the best teams. We live our values of GRIT (Genuine, Relentless, Integrity & Teamwork) and strive to create an inclusive and equitable workplace where everyone can be their true selves, where we all show up for each other. In line with our goal to be 1% better every day, we are committed to listening, learning, growing and improving.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives to join us on this journey.

Candidates must be based in the NYC region. This full‑time position is NYC‑based with remote flexibility; onsite as needed.

We are seeking an outstanding Senior Network Engineer to join our Global Infrastructure team at Convene Hospitality Group in a fast‑paced, agile environment. In this role, you’ll tackle a broad range of business initiatives, leveraging a wide set of technologies and tools. You’ll be instrumental in supporting our internal CHG team, overseeing network and security infrastructure across our venue properties, multiple cloud environments, and a diverse range of networking technologies.

As a member of our world‑class team covering both the US and UK markets, you’ll also have the exciting opportunity to participate in global projects and initiatives, alongside excellent personal development opportunities.

The Senior Network Engineer will work on a broad range of business initiatives and objectives for new and current locations. The ideal candidate will be responsible for leveraging a wide range of technologies and tools to build intelligent infrastructure systems, scalable automation, and managing our centralized networking, server and cloud based systems. The candidate will be focused and driven to continuously improve our network delivery, monitoring systems, and automation initiatives.

• Design, develop, build, and maintain network architecture for a multi‑tenant enterprise that is both corporate and customer facing.
• Partner with both internal and external teams to automate provisioning for new clients and other basic tasks.
• Assist in projects that lead to network improvements including network equipment code upgrades, network hardware upgrades, and network/server application software improvements.
• Work with various vendors and service providers to ensure the production environment is always operating at peak proficiency.
• Build, maintain, and improve a network automation platform.
• Build, maintain, and improve cloud based and server based compute platforms using Virtualization, K8s, and containerization.
• Maintain and improve on an AWS based Cloud Networking environment.
• Actively monitor network health across Convene locations, identify and propose solutions to problems before they occur.
• Participate in day to day network operations, when needed as well as an on‑call rotation.
• Innovate, never accept the status quo.
• Explore new technologies and have fun finding the best tools.
• Identify and implement process improvements.

• 7+ years of hands‑on experience with deploying, maintaining, and managing enterprise‑scale networks.
• A deep understanding and knowledge of core networking concepts. Experience with layer 2 and 3 routing protocols, multi‑site VPN, WiFi networks, and cloud networking typically used in any enterprise WAN architecture.
• A technical background in a hosted services environment including infrastructure networks, hardware, software and telecommunications.
• Hands‑on experience in Juniper JunOS, including SRX, EX, and QFX platforms. Hands‑on experience with Cisco IOS and ASA is a plus.
• Familiarity with WiFi based (802.11ax/802.11be) architecture, technologies, and day‑to‑day operations.
• Proficiency in IGMP, PIM, and other multicast based protocols.
• Ability to develop, deploy, and maintain wide area network architecture through a varying degree of technologies such as SD‑WAN, MPLS, VPLS, and L2L VPN tunnels.
• Experience using automated network monitoring tools, including building and maintaining a full network automation platform using tools such as Ansible.
• Previous experience in troubleshooting Wireless (WiFi) networks, sufficient…