Network Engineer (Onsite) – LAN/WAN & security

Twist Bioscience Corporation; Wilsonville, Northern (OR, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Twist Bioscience Corporation in Wilsonville, OR is seeking a Network Engineer to design, deploy, and optimize the LAN/WAN infrastructure across multiple sites. This onsite role emphasizes security, reliability, and timely support of firewalls, routers, switches, and VPNs.

You will work with a small IT team, manage network monitoring, document topology, plan capacity, and participate in on-call coverage and occasional off-hours maintenance to keep critical services available.

Qualifications

• 3+ years working knowledge of data, voice, video and wireless communication solutions.
• 3+ years engineering and deploying networking technologies (route, switch, firewall, and wireless).
• 3+ years working in a small to midsize enterprise environment.
• 3+ years working on network gear located at remote locations.
• Experience in managing highly available and fault-tolerant network solutions.
• Experience troubleshooting and resolve connectivity issues from any point on the network.
• Experience managing solutions with network security principles and network management best practices.
• Experience in monitoring and managing cloud networking (AWS, Azure, etc).
• Experience with QoS, WAN optimization and load balancing solutions.
• Strong knowledge of WAN technologies (IPSec, and SD-WAN).
• Ability to adapt to new software and evolving technologies.
• Experience in ticketing and project systems (Jira, Service-Now).
• Ability to execute projects in a fast-paced environment with deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Configure and maintain Twist’s LAN and WAN operations across 7 locations and a cloud data center.
• Plan and design data and voice networks; stay current on technologies.
• Upgrade network hardware and software components as required.
• Receive escalated network troubleshooting and resolve related requests.
• Monitor security and hardware logs to proactively monitor performance.
• Develop and maintain network monitoring, alerting and capacity planning tools.
• Manage firewall policies, ACLs, and port configurations; document topology diagrams.
• Maintain network equipment lifecycle; renew licensing and contracts.
• Perform scheduled maintenance during night and weekends.
• Install new network/server gear and travel for on-premise deployments.
• Provide 24x7 on-call coverage as part of an on-call rotation.
• Act as SME for cross-functional IT projects; ensure design requirements are met.

Skills

LAN/WAN design and optimization

Firewall configuration

Wireless networking

Network troubleshooting

Cloud networking (AWS, Azure)

Network security principles

Network monitoring

Documentation (topology diagrams)

Ticketing & project systems (Jira, SN)

Education

BA/BS degree in CS, MIS, or other equivalent IT field or equivalent experience.

Tools

Jira

ServiceNow

Job description

Twist Bioscience Corporation in Wilsonville, OR is seeking a Network Engineer to design, deploy, and optimize the LAN/WAN infrastructure across multiple sites. This onsite role emphasizes security, reliability, and timely support of firewalls, routers, switches, and VPNs.

You will work with a small IT team, manage network monitoring, document topology, plan capacity, and participate in on-call coverage and occasional off-hours maintenance to keep critical services available.