Hybrid Senior Network Engineer - Cisco, F5, VPN

Delta Dental of California; Rancho Cordova (CA); Hybrid; USD 81,000 - 176,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) matching

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Tuition reimbursement

Adoption assistance

Fertility treatment support

Family care support

Volunteer opportunities

Employee discount

Job summary

Delta Dental of California is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to support the enterprise network infrastructure across Delta Dental locations. You will design, implement, and refresh network infrastructure including LAN/WAN, VPNs, firewalls, load balancers, and security with on-call rotations.

The role requires 4+ years of experience and a bachelor’s degree in a technical field, with hands-on work on Cisco/Arista devices, F5 load balancers, and monitoring tools like SolarWinds or Datadog.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional network engineering experience with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.
• Experience with firewall infrastructure and management.
• Experience with F5 load balancers.
• Experience with routing and switching, including Cisco and/or Arista network devices.
• Ability to lead and manage small to large enterprise network implementations or changes.
• Ability to guide, train and mentor associate engineers.
• Highly skilled in developing quantitative cost/benefit analysis to measure improvements.
• Experience with network monitoring tools such as SolarWinds and/or Datadog is nice to have.

Responsibilities

• Plans, designs and implements enterprise network infrastructure equipment upgrades/changes, IT equipment refreshes as well as incorporate large facility relocations & office moves.
• Plans, coordinates, implements and configures various types of network infrastructure (switches, routers, firewalls, out-of-band equipment, load balancers, wireless controllers, VPN, etc.)
• Responsible for plan and design of F5 Load Balancer infrastructure and creates and maintains application related VIPs
• Plans, designs and implements Cisco firewall infrastructure and ability to create ACL's
• Troubleshoots network infrastructure equipment and circuits as it relates to application and performance issues
• Works with technical teams to design and implement new or advanced technologies
• Designs, plans and implements highly technical and complicated changes
• Designs, plans and provides network support for new applications
• Participates in an on-call rotation and performs after-hours network changes and support as needed.

Skills

Network engineering

Firewall management

F5 load balancers

Routing & switching

Cisco/Arista devices

Mentoring

Cost/benefit analysis

Network monitoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/IT/Engineering

Tools

SolarWinds

Datadog

Job description

Delta Dental of California is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to support the enterprise network infrastructure across Delta Dental locations. You will design, implement, and refresh network infrastructure including LAN/WAN, VPNs, firewalls, load balancers, and security with on-call rotations.

The role requires 4+ years of experience and a bachelor’s degree in a technical field, with hands-on work on Cisco/Arista devices, F5 load balancers, and monitoring tools like SolarWinds or Datadog.