Infrastructure Engineer: Networking & Unified Communications

Compeer Financial; Mankato (MN); Hybrid; USD 119,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Flexible schedules

401k match

Medical benefits

HSA/FSA

Life & AD&D insurance

Disability insurance

Wellness program

Volunteer paid time off

Mentorship programs

Job summary

Compeer Financial is seeking a senior network engineer to lead the engineering direction, reliability, and modernization of our enterprise network and telephony services. This hybrid role is based in Bloomington IL, Sun Prairie WI, Lakeville MN, or Mankato MN with flexible remote options and strong cross‑functional collaboration.

The position emphasizes delivering scalable architecture, shaping multi‑year technical direction, and mentoring engineers while partnering with vendors to ensure

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, cybersecurity, telecommunications, or a related field; or an equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to perform the essential functions of the job.
• Minimum 10 or more years of progressive experience in unified communications, network engineering, telecommunications, infrastructure engineering, systems administration, or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience implementing and supporting telephony, unified communications, contact center, voice and video collaboration, messaging, conferencing, cloud communications, monitoring, and related enterprise communication technologies.
• Expert‑level experience with routing, switching, wireless, WAN, cloud connectivity, network services, telephony, unified communications, carrier services, automation, observability, security, technical governance, and vendor or partner delivery.
• Valid driver's license required.
• Professional or expert level Cisco, Juniper, Aruba, Arista, or comparable network and telecommunications certifications preferred
• Experience with cloud communications, unified communications platforms, contact‑center technologies, collaboration services, automation and infrastructure‑as‑code, and communications observability tools preferred.
• Experience in a regulated financial‑services environment or with audit, risk, and control requirements, preferred.
• Experience defining enterprise service‑level objectives and indicators, network performance measures, capacity baselines, and availability reporting, preferred.
• Experience leading enterprise‑scale wireless, carrier, contact‑center, or multi‑site network transformation initiatives, preferred.

Responsibilities

• Designs, implements, configures, patches, upgrades, and maintains telephony, unified communications, contact center, voice and video collaboration, messaging, conferencing, cloud communications, and supporting management platforms.
• Leads complex network transformations, WAN and wireless modernization, cloud-connectivity programs, telephony and unified communications migrations, carrier transitions, automation initiatives, and resilience improvements.
• Establishes reusable enterprise patterns for segmentation, routing, secure connectivity, quality of service, call routing, emergency calling, observability, automation, resiliency, lifecycle management, and operational support.
• Leads resolution of the highest‑impact connectivity, performance, voice, carrier, and operational problems; performs deep technical analysis and drives systemic improvements across infrastructure, cloud, security, application, and vendor dependencies.
• Defines network and telephony engineering measures and practices for availability, performance, capacity, call quality, failover, recoverability, security, compliance, supportability, and production readiness.
• Serves as a trusted technical advisor to leaders and strategic vendors; mentors senior engineers; and influences investment, vendor, carrier, sequencing, resilience, and lifecycle decisions through executive-ready recommendations.

Job description

Compeer Financial is seeking a senior network engineer to lead the engineering direction, reliability, and modernization of our enterprise network and telephony services. This hybrid role is based in Bloomington IL, Sun Prairie WI, Lakeville MN, or Mankato MN with flexible remote options and strong cross‑functional collaboration.

The position emphasizes delivering scalable architecture, shaping multi‑year technical direction, and mentoring engineers while partnering with vendors to ensure