Senior WAN Engineer

Role Summary

The Senior WAN Engineer designs, implements, operates, and continuously improves enterprise wide-area network infrastructure supporting operational sites, corporate locations, data centers, cloud environments, carrier interconnections, and other critical communications services. This senior-level role provides hands-on expertise in BGP, SD-WAN/SASE, internet-edge routing, carrier connectivity, and cloud interconnect technologies while supporting network reliability, scalability, security, and performance.

Responsibilities

• Configure, maintain, and troubleshoot eBGP and iBGP across internet-edge and carrier interconnect environments.
• Manage route policies, prefix filtering, BGP communities, peering relationships, capacity changes, and failover testing.
• Deploy and support enterprise SD-WAN/SASE environments, including appliances, site configurations, security policies, performance optimization, and connectivity troubleshooting.
• Design and operate cloud connectivity using technologies such as Equinix Fabric, AWS Direct Connect, and comparable cloud interconnect solutions.
• Coordinate carrier circuit activations, acceptance testing, cutovers, outage response, maintenance activities, and service escalations for optical, Ethernet, DIA, and MPLS services.
• Build and support LAN and WAN connectivity across operational sites, data centers, and industrial or operational technology environments.
• Maintain network monitoring, flow analytics, alerting, dashboards, performance telemetry, and capacity reporting.
• Develop and maintain network diagrams, as-built documentation, circuit inventories, IP and BGP records, and operational runbooks.
• Execute production network changes in accordance with established change management and audit processes.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity, telecommunications, carriers, network architecture, and technical teams on network design, implementation, troubleshooting, and incident resolution.

Qualifications

• Active CCNP Enterprise, Service Provider, Data Center, or comparable professional-level networking certification.
• 7+ years of hands-on network engineering experience, including 3+ years focused on WAN, internet-edge, or service-provider connectivity in production environments.
• Strong production BGP experience, including peering, route policies, prefix filtering, communities, and failover behavior.
• Hands-on experience deploying and operating SD-WAN technologies such as Cato Networks, VMware VeloCloud, Cisco Viptela, Palo Alto Prisma, Fortinet, or comparable platforms.
• Experience activating and troubleshooting carrier circuits and working directly with telecommunications providers and network operations teams.
• Working knowledge of cloud interconnect technologies such as Equinix Fabric, AWS Direct Connect, or comparable services.
• Strong experience with network documentation, incident management, change control, and production support practices.
• Ability to meet applicable work authorization requirements associated with the position.
• Ability to travel approximately 15 to 20% and participate in an on-call rotation as required.
• Ability to support Central Time business and operational requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• CCIE, CCNP Service Provider, or comparable advanced networking certification.
• Experience with satellite communications, telecommunications, carrier, or ISP infrastructure.
• Knowledge of EVPN/VXLAN technologies.
• Experience with network analytics platforms such as Kentik or comparable tools.
• Experience supporting Check Point firewalls or similar network security technologies.
• Experience with network automation using Python, Ansible, or comparable technologies.

Publishing Pay Range: $59.00 - $65.00 hourly

This is a fully remote role and can be performed from an approved location.