Lead Network Engineer

At Pave America, our people mean everything. From work crew members to administrative assistants, our employees are the backbone of the business.

That’s why we’re always searching for new talent to take our team to the next level. If you want to pave your own path with Pave America, we’d love for you to apply for an open position.

We’re building more than just a pavement company. We’re building a community—and we’re committed to taking care of the members in that community. That’s why we offer the following benefits to our employees:

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents
• 401k
• Competitive pay
• Vehicle allowances and bonus programs for management

Pave America is the largest self-perform commercial paving and pavement maintenance platform in the United States, backed by AEA Investors LP. The company operates ~30 branches across 40 acquired brands and generates approximately $1.1B in revenue with ~$160M EBITDA. Pave America is executing a Value Creation Plan targeting $2B revenue and $350M EBITDA by 2029, with a 3–4× MOIC exit objective on a 3–5 year horizon.

We are a leading paving contractor operating across regional and national markets. Our field operations, estimating teams, and project managers depend on fast, reliable network connectivity to deliver work on time and on budget. The Lead Network Engineer will own the design, performance and security of the networks that power our business — from job site wireless and fleet telematics to branch office WAN and cloud connectivity — ensuring our infrastructure keeps pace with a fast-moving construction environment.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES -

Design, plan, and document scalable network solutions across LAN, WAN, SD-WAN, and cloud networking. Translate business and field operational requirements into reliable network architectures that support job sites, branch offices, and remote crews.

Network operations & monitoring

Oversee day-to-day network operations, performance monitoring and incident response. Maintain uptime across all sites, proactively identify bottlenecks, and lead troubleshooting for network outages and degraded service affecting field and office operations.

Security & access control

Implement and maintain network security controls including firewalls, VPNs, NAC, and network segmentation. Enforce access policies across office, remote, and field environments to protect company data and systems from unauthorized access and threats.

Manage relationships with ISPs, telecom carriers, and network hardware vendors. Evaluate service agreements, negotiate contracts and hold vendors accountable for SLAs — ensuring reliable connectivity across all company locations and job sites.

Infrastructure & connectivity

Own the physical and logical network infrastructure including switches, routers, wireless access points, and MPLS or SD‑WAN circuits. Ensure reliable, high-performance connectivity across headquarters, branch offices, and active job sites.

Documentation & standards

Maintain accurate network diagrams, configuration documentation, and change management records. Establish and enforce network standards, naming conventions and change control processes aligned with company policy and compliance requirements.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 6-10 years of experience in network engineering or network administration, with at least 2 years in a senior or lead capacity
• Deep hands-on expertise with enterprise routing and switching — Cisco, Juniper or equivalent — including BGP, OSPF, VLAN design and QoS configuration
• Proven experience designing and managing SD‑WAN, MPLS and site-to-site VPN solutions across multi-location environments
• Strong knowledge of network security — firewalls (Palo Alto, Fortinet or similar), NAC, IDS/IPS and zero trust network access principles
• Experience with wireless networking at scale — deploying and managing enterprise Wi‑Fi (Meraki, Aruba or equivalent) across multiple facilities and outdoor/job site environments
• Solid understanding of network monitoring and observability tools (Solar Winds, PRTG, Datadog or similar) — with the ability to set thresholds, build dashboards and drive proactive remediation
• Ability to…