Senior Network Engineer – Infrastructure

Position: Senior Network Engineer – Digital Infrastructure
Location: Plymouth, MN – Atria Office
Work Arrangement: Hybrid

Duration: 6 months+

Certification: CCNP or higher

Experience: 10+ years

Job Summary:

We are looking for a highly experienced Senior Network Engineer to play a key role in delivering complex infrastructure projects and advancing the enterprise network environment.

The ideal candidate will provide deep technical expertise in enterprise networking, SD-WAN, Cisco technologies, network architecture, security, and advanced troubleshooting. This individual will drive technical quality, resolve complex infrastructure challenges, and contribute to strategic technology decisions while ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and best practices.

Reports To: Director of Infrastructure Platform Engineering

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and optimize SD-WAN hub-and-spoke architectures with a focus on scalability, reliability, and transport independence.
• Architect, deploy, and enhance enterprise wired and wireless network solutions in collaboration with vendors, stakeholders, and internal engineering teams.
• Provide senior-level technical expertise for physical and logical network infrastructure initiatives.
• Ensure network designs and implementations align with technology roadmaps, service lifecycles, and enterprise standards.
• Collaborate with Network Architects, Solution Architects, Enterprise Architects, Cloud Engineers, and Security Teams on infrastructure design and implementation.
• Participate in design reviews and prepare technical change requests for service providers.
• Monitor and analyze network performance across wired, wireless, and SD-WAN environments.
• Utilize telemetry and analytics tools to identify performance issues, troubleshoot complex problems, and determine root causes.
• Contribute to network automation, alerting, configuration management, and remediation workflows while supporting the organization’s transition toward NetDevOps practices.
• Implement network security controls and ensure compliance with internal security standards and applicable regulatory requirements.
• Provide Tier 3 support for incidents, service requests, and complex network troubleshooting.
• Lead and contribute to Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and long-term corrective actions.
• Review existing network architectures, configurations, and tools to identify opportunities for improved performance, cost optimization, and resiliency.
• Stay current with emerging networking technologies, Cisco platforms, SD-WAN advancements, and industry best practices.
• Contribute to technical documentation, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement initiatives.