Project Engineer III; Network Specialization

Description

The Project Engineer III - (Networking Specialization) is a senior, hands‑on engineer who assesses, designs, and delivers secure, reliable networks for small and mid‑sized customers and larger organizations with internal IT teams. The primary stack is Meraki/Cisco, Ruckus, and HP; migrations and upgrades span multiple vendors. The role combines networking depth with solid on‑premises, Microsoft cloud, and hybrid‑infrastructure knowledge, using designs appropriate to each customer's scale, risk, and support capabilities.

The engineer performs existing‑customer pre‑sales assessments and solution architecture and owns technical execution within approved Statements of Work (SOWs) and project plans. Working with Project Managers, Sales, account teams, engineering leadership, support/security teams, vendors, and customer IT staff, the engineer develops shared standards and reusable solutions. Project Managers retain responsibility for schedule, budget, resources, change control, status reporting, and acceptance.

Other duties may be assigned to meet business needs.

• Existing-customer assessments and pre-sales architecture: Assess environments, identify risks and capacity needs, and develop practical designs. Collaborate with Sales, account teams, and engineering leadership on recommendations, diagrams, bills of materials, SOWs, estimates, dependencies, and technical tradeoffs. Explain and validate design decisions with customer IT staff where present.
• Project planning, delivery, and coordination: Own technical work streams from readiness through completion. Define prerequisites, sequencing, maintenance windows, migration phases, and rollback plans; execute approved scope; maintain accurate tasks, time entries, and status; and promptly elevate scope, schedule, budget, quality, or customer-impact concerns.
• Routing, switching, and modernization: Implement single-site and multi-site networks, IP addressing, VLANs, inter‑VLAN routing, spanning‑tree, trunks, link aggregation, port security, and QoS. Lead cross-vendor migrations, network rebuilds, equipment replacements, and configuration/firmware upgrades. Verify feature compatibility and translate configurations to the approved design rather than copying legacy settings unchanged.
• WAN, SD‑WAN, and hybrid connectivity: Design internet, site-to-site VPN, SD‑WAN, and cloud connectivity with appropriate redundancy, failover, and recovery. Configure static or dynamic routing as justified by the environment. Coordinate circuits and cutovers with carriers; validate application performance and failure/recovery behavior across locations.
• Network security and access: Implement firewall rules, ACLs, NAT, secure VPN access, IDS/IPS, segmentation, and protected administration. Validate both permitted and blocked traffic, identity-based access, and logging. Work with security teams to meet customer policies and applicable security and compliance requirements.
• Wireless assessments and optimization: Perform RF/site surveys and capacity assessments; design access‑point placement, channels, power, roaming, guest access, and authentication. Validate coverage, interference, client behavior, and application performance using measured evidence, not dashboard status alone.
• On-premises and cloud integration: Integrate networking with Windows Server, Active Directory, DNS/DHCP, RADIUS, virtualization, storage, backup/recovery, and Microsoft 365/Azure services. Identify cross‑platform dependencies and coordinate with other engineers to deliver supportable end‑to‑end solutions.
• Network deployment and lifecycle automation: Use scripts, vendor APIs, templates, and version control for repeatable provisioning, configuration backups, inventory,…