Network Engineer Senior

Acuity Inc. (NYSE: AYI) is a market-leading industrial technology company. We use technology to solve problems in spaces, light and more things to come. Through our two business segments, Acuity Brands Lighting (ABL) and Acuity Intelligent Spaces (AIS), we design, manufacture, and bring to market products and services that make a valuable difference in people’s lives.

We achieve growth through the development of innovative new products and services, including lighting, lighting controls, building management solutions, and an audio, video and control platform. We focus on customer outcomes and drive growth and productivity to increase market share and deliver superior returns. We look to aggressively deploy capital to grow the business and to enter attractive new verticals.

Acuity Inc. is based in Atlanta, Georgia, with operations across North America, Europe and Asia. The Company is powered by approximately 13,000 dedicated and talented associates. Visit us at

Are you passionate about building reliable and secure network infrastructure? Acuity Inc is seeking a Senior Network Engineer with a focus on firewall administration and a security mindset to join our Infrastructure Engineering team. As part of our team, you'll have the opportunity to design, secure, deploy, scale, and maintain highly available network infrastructure both on site as well as in the cloud with Azure.

Our team's focus is on quantifying and improving the availability, reliability, security, and performance of our products and services. You'll collaborate closely with LAN admins and security teams to achieve these goals.

We embrace a culture of trust, respect, asynchronous communication, creativity, and customer value. Remote work is the norm for our highly distributed teams.

As a Network Infrastructure Engineer, you'll play a critical role in ensuring the reliability and security of our IT infrastructure and cloud applications. Your responsibilities will include:

• Building site-to-site VPN tunnels
• Maintaining a secure limited access firewall rule base
• Building network configurations and connections across LAN and WAN.
• Troubleshooting network problems.
• IP address allocation and maintenance to avoid overlaps.
• Maintaining firmware on switches, APs, load balancers and other devices.
• Network segmentation.
• Voice and Call Center system configuration.
• Leading incident resolution efforts and postmortems.
• Designing and implementing monitoring and automation tools.
• A system operations mindset focused on maintaining uptime and addressing disruptions.
• Strong collaboration skills to work with other engineering teams.
• Familiarity with monitoring systems such as Solar Winds, PRTG, Azure.
• Experience with web networking, TLS, SSL certificate management, reverse proxies, and load balancing.
• Excellent written communication skills.
• A passion for solving complex problems and continuous improvement.
• Some travel may be required.

7+ years of experience in a similar role.

• In depth experience with firewall administration, VPN tunnels, and multi-ISP routing
• Network access control (NAC) systems
• Network switch and AP hardware configuration and installation
• Network design, implementation and troubleshooting.
• Network segmentation that includes security limits with ACLs, NACs, and firewalls.
• Wireless network security with 802.1x and certificate authentication.
• WAF experience with DDoS and Bot protections
• Incident response and/or incident management experience.
• Experience with highly available distributed systems.
• Experience with OT (Operational Technology) network segmentation is a plus
• Experience defining SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs.
• Experience with…