Senior Network Engineer: WAN, SD-WAN & Security

Satellite Office; Philippines; On-site; PHP 600,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Satellite Office is seeking an experienced Network Engineer to implement and support enterprise LAN, WAN, WLAN, VPN, firewall, and SD-WAN technologies. The role requires independent completion of network engineering assignments and tactical infrastructure projects with limited supervision.

You will configure routers, switches, firewalls, wireless infrastructure, VPN services, and related network platforms, including VLANs, routing changes, and security configurations.

Qualifications

• Four or more years of hands-on experience in an enterprise Network Engineering, Network Operations, or Infrastructure Engineering role.
• Experience independently configuring and supporting production routers, switches, firewalls, wireless infrastructure, or SD-WAN platforms.
• Experience implementing production network changes using documented implementation, validation, and rollback procedures.
• Experience troubleshooting enterprise network incidents beyond basic connectivity and end-user support.
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
• Preferred certifications: CCNP Enterprise, JNCIS, PCNSE, Fortinet FCP, Meraki, or similar.
• ITIL 4 Foundation or practical experience with Change, Incident, and Problem Management processes.
• Experience with public-cloud networking (AWS or Azure) and network automation/scripting.

Responsibilities

• Implement and support enterprise LAN, WAN, WLAN, VPN, firewall, network access control, cloud connectivity, and SD-WAN technologies.
• Independently complete network engineering assignments and tactical infrastructure projects with limited supervision.
• Configure and maintain routers, switches, firewalls, wireless infrastructure, VPN services, and related network platforms.
• VLANs, trunks, port channels, and switch-port configurations.
• Static and dynamic routing changes.
• Firewall policies, NAT rules, security zones, and DMZ configurations.
• Site-to-site and remote-access VPN configurations.
• Wireless SSIDs, authentication policies, and access controls.
• WAN circuit activations, migrations, and failover configurations.
• Troubleshoot complex Layer 2 and Layer 3 network incidents involving routing, switching, wireless, firewalls, VPNs, DNS, DHCP, internet connectivity, and application traffic flows.
• Perform packet-level and protocol-level analysis to identify root causes of performance, availability, and connectivity issues.
• Lead or participate in network infrastructure projects such as office openings, site relocations, hardware refreshes, network migrations, circuit upgrades, and technology deployments.
• Coordinate circuit installations, upgrades, cross-connects, handoffs, testing, migrations, terminations, and outage remediation with carriers, local exchange carriers, and data-center providers.
• Develop implementation plans, test plans, rollback procedures, validation steps, and supporting documentation for network changes.
• Maintain accurate logical and physical network diagrams, IP address documentation, circuit inventories, configuration standards, and operational procedures.
• Monitor network availability, capacity, performance, and configuration compliance using SolarWinds Orion or similar network-management platforms.
• Review monitoring alerts and performance trends to identify recurring issues, capacity constraints, and opportunities for proactive improvement.
• Ensure network-device configurations are backed up, standardized, and maintained in accordance with organizational security and operational requirements.
• Perform root-cause analysis for significant incidents and recommend corrective and preventative actions.
• Provide technical guidance to service desk, infrastructure, security, application, and site-support teams for network-related issues.
• Coordinate and validate work performed by telecommunications carriers, managed service providers, cabling vendors, field technicians, and other third parties.
• Participate in an on-call rotation and provide escalation support for critical network incidents as required.
• Follow established Change Management, Incident Management, Problem Management, and configuration-management processes.
• Contribute to network standards, reference architectures, lifecycle planning, resiliency improvements, and technology evaluations.

Skills

TCP/IP networking

Layer 2 technologies

Layer 3 routing

Cisco/Juniper/Meraki platforms

Firewalls & VPNs

Wireless networking (802.11)

NAC/AAA (802.1X, RADIUS, TACACS+)

WAN/SD-WAN

Network monitoring (SolarWinds)

Network diagrams (Visio/Lucidchart)

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

SolarWinds Orion

Visio

Lucidchart

Job description

Satellite Office is seeking an experienced Network Engineer to implement and support enterprise LAN, WAN, WLAN, VPN, firewall, and SD-WAN technologies. The role requires independent completion of network engineering assignments and tactical infrastructure projects with limited supervision.

You will configure routers, switches, firewalls, wireless infrastructure, VPN services, and related network platforms, including VLANs, routing changes, and security configurations.