Network & Security Engineer

Wilson is a city of around 50,000 people located in the heart of eastern North Carolina. We are about an hour from the Research Triangle and the buzz of the Raleigh area, and you can also quickly reach the North Carolina beaches.

The City of Wilson is known for innovation and outstanding service. We have top-rated, nationally accredited police, fire and recreation departments. Our parks and sports facilities are among the best in the nation, and our Vollis Simpson Whirligig Park is a unique and beautiful attraction that hosts concerts, farmers markets and the N.C. Whirligig Festival among other events. Our downtown ballpark proudly serves as the home of the Milwaukee Brewers minor league affiliate.

The team celebrated its inaugural Opening Night on April 14, 2026, marking an exciting new chapter for our community and downtown district.

Wilson has the strongest manufacturing base in our part of the state, including tire manufacturing, pharmaceutical and other industries. The Greenlight citywide broadband services help technology-based companies flourish.

In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a best-in-class benefits package that brings additional value to your total compensation. To learn more about our benefits package, click on the ‘Benefits’ tab above.

The hiring range for this position is $85,734.87 (minimum salary) to $ (midpoint of range) dependent upon qualifications.

The purpose of this position is to manage the City's Fiber to the Premise Network and the internal enterprise network. This position is responsible for designing and maintaining the overall function and security of the City of Wilson's networks and the assets it connects. Successful performance results in the efficient and secure operation of the enterprise network, as well as the municipal owned fiber network:
Video, telephone, and Internet services.

The work consists of varied technical and team oriented tasks. Security of network assets is an ever changing field. The amount of work to be performed contributes to the complexity of the position. This position serves as a primary technical escalation authority for perimeter defense, security incident response, regulatory data compliance, and broadband optical network evolution.

• Administers all City of Wilson enterprise and municipal broadband networks, including high-level architecture design, configuration, and advanced lifecycle maintenance of enterprise Fortinet next-generation firewalls (Forti Gate, Forti Manager, Forti Analyzer), core routers, switches, SD-WAN routing policies, IPsec site-to-site tunnels, and remote-access SSL-VPN systems.
• Maintains optimal routing with peer ISPs through BGP path manipulation and load balancing over peer links.
• Collaborates on the design and hardening of the City's server environment, including Windows and Linux systems, ensuring strict adherence to baseline security standards and least-privilege architectures.
• Consults with Applications, Systems, and Infrastructure teams to design, evaluate, and enforce granular firewall access policies and network segmentation.
• Establishes, reviews, and executes daily security operational routines, including active monitoring of SIEM dashboards, firewall threat alerts, endpoint security events, and recurring system log reviews.
• Serves as the primary operational lead and escalation authority for cybersecurity incident response; develops containment playbooks, coordinates host isolation during active compromises, and leads root-cause remediation.
• Administers overall network and server security, including coordinating external audits, vulnerability assessments, and managing routine internal penetration and configuration audits.
• Develops, manages, and executes standard operating…