Network Engineer - Platform Services

Lewis Brisbois; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k with employer match

Sick time

Vacation time

Growth opportunities and advancement

Job summary

The New York office of Lewis Brisbois is seeking a Network Engineer - Platform Services to maintain and improve core infrastructure platforms, including storage, networking, backup, virtualization, and related services.

The role focuses on day-to-day operations, incident resolution, and partner collaboration with IT teams, vendors, and stakeholders to ensure secure, available, and cost-effective infrastructure for a large professional services firm.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, CS, engineering or related field preferred.
• Five+ years of progressive experience supporting enterprise infrastructure operations.
• Certifications from infrastructure/cloud vendors are preferred.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional technical work and maintenance projects is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Oversee day-to-day operation, maintenance, reliability and continuous improvement of core infrastructure platforms including storage, networking, backup and recovery, virtualization.
• Perform routine operational tasks such as patching, moves/adds/changes; validate backups and maintenance; resolve incidents and service requests.
• Collaborate with IT teams, vendors and stakeholders to complete tasks on schedule and improve resiliency, security, performance and cost effectiveness.

Skills

Incident management

Cross-functional collaboration

Documentation

Patch management

Network infrastructure knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s degree in information technology / Computer Science / Engineering

Tools

Storage technologies

Networking technologies

Backup & recovery

Virtualization

Cloud services

Data center operations

Job description

Overview

The New York office of Lewis Brisbois, a full-service AmLaw 100 firm, is seeking a Network Engineer - Platform Services to join the team.

This Network Engineer - Platform Services is responsible for the day-to-day operation, maintenance, reliability, and continuous improvement of the firm's core infrastructure platforms, including enterprise storage, networking, backup and recovery, virtualization, and related supporting services. The role performs routine operational work such as patching, moves, adds, and changes; validates the successful completion of backups and scheduled maintenance; resolves incidents and service requests; and helps ensure that infrastructure systems remain secure, supported, available, and fully operational.

This position works closely with other Information Technology teams, business departments, vendors, and project stakeholders to complete assigned tasks and projects on schedule. The engineer is expected to identify operational risks, simplify support processes, optimize infrastructure services, and recommend practical alternative solutions that improve resiliency, supportability, security, performance, and cost effectiveness.

Lewis Brisbois offers a full suite of benefits including 401k with employer match, as well as sick and vacation time. We also offer excellent opportunities for growth and advancement while working with a collaborative team.

Responsibilities

Job Specifications/Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field preferred; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
• Five or more years of progressive experience supporting enterprise infrastructure operations, including several of the following areas: storage, networking, backup and recovery, virtualization, cloud services, and data center technologies.
• Experience supporting a large, geographically dispersed professional services organization is preferred; law firm experience is a plus.
• Relevant technical certifications from infrastructure, cloud, networking, virtualization, storage, or backup vendors are preferred.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional technical work and leading infrastructure maintenance, upgrade, migration, or recovery activities.
• Ability to plan and execute maintenance, patching, upgrades, migrations, and changes using documented implementation, validation, rollback, and communication plans.
• Working knowledge of high availability, redundancy, disaster recovery, business continuity, capacity planning, and infrastructure lifecycle management.
• Ability to analyze complex technical issues, identify root causes, prioritize remediation, and communicate impacts clearly to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Ability to manage multiple operational assignments and project tasks while meeting deadlines and maintaining accurate documentation.

Lewis Brisbois is not accepting search firm submissions for this position.

Minimum Salary

USD $120,000.00/Yr.

Maximum Salary

USD $150,000.00/Yr.