Global WAN & Cloud Connectivity Engineer Lead

EY; Cleveland (OH); On-site; USD 139,000 - 313,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental benefits

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Job summary

EY is hiring a Senior Network Engineer for Global Connectivity Solutions (GCS) to engineer, implement, and optimize secure global WAN and cloud connectivity. You will lead complex migrations, automation, and architecture across BGP/OSPF, SD‑WAN, and IPsec/L2TP VPNs, collaborating with security, cloud, and vendor teams.

You will drive design standards, provide technical escalation, and mentor engineers while aligning with EY’s transformation and security goals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Telecommunications, or a related technical discipline. A Master’s degree is an advantage.
• Minimum of 12 years of progressive experience in enterprise or service provider networking, including hands-on experience designing, implementing, and supporting large-scale WAN, SD-WAN, Internet, B2B VPN, and cloud connectivity solutions.
• Cisco CCNP Enterprise (or equivalent) preferred; CCIE or cloud-networking certs are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on leadership for design, implementation, migration, optimization, and lifecycle management of global WAN services.
• Lead SD‑WAN engineering across branches, data centers, cloud environments, SaaS, and secure gateways.
• Design and support secure B2B connectivity using site-to-site IPsec and L2TP VPNs; manage peering and interconnections.
• Design multi-cloud connectivity with Azure ExpressRoute, cloud transit, and integration with AWS/Google Cloud.
• Mentor engineers and drive end-to-end technical design across security, cloud, operations, and vendors.
• Partner with Network Operations to ensure change management, ITSM, monitoring, and security readiness.

Skills

WAN architecture

BGP/OSPF

SD-WAN

VPN & interconnects

Network automation

Cloud connectivity

Security awareness

Vendor engagement

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering/IT/Telecommunications

Tools

Python

REST APIs

Ansible

Infrastructure-as-Code

JSON

YAML

Git

Job description

EY is hiring a Senior Network Engineer for Global Connectivity Solutions (GCS) to engineer, implement, and optimize secure global WAN and cloud connectivity. You will lead complex migrations, automation, and architecture across BGP/OSPF, SD‑WAN, and IPsec/L2TP VPNs, collaborating with security, cloud, and vendor teams.

You will drive design standards, provide technical escalation, and mentor engineers while aligning with EY’s transformation and security goals.