Network Engineer - Platform Services

Lewis Brisbois; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Lewis Brisbois in Washington, DC seeks a Network Engineer - Platform Services to own day-to-day operation and improvement of core infrastructure platforms, including storage, networking, backup, and virtualization. The role involves coordinating with IT teams, vendors, and stakeholders to ensure secure, available systems.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in enterprise infrastructure, relevant certifications, and strong problem-solving and planning skills to drive resiliency and cost efficiency

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, CS, Engineering or related field or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years in enterprise infrastructure operations spanning storage, networking, backup/recovery, virtualization, cloud, and data center tech.
• Experience in a large geographically dispersed professional services org; law firm experience is a plus.
• Appropriate infrastructure, cloud, networking, virtualization, storage or backup vendor certifications.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional technical work and leading infrastructure maintenance, upgrades, migrations, or recovery.
• Ability to plan and execute maintenance, patching, upgrades, migrations, and changes with documented plans.
• Knowledge of high availability, redundancy, disaster recovery, business continuity, capacity planning, and lifecycle management.
• Ability to analyze complex technical issues and communicate impacts to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Ability to manage multiple operational assignments and projects while meeting deadlines and maintaining documentation.

Responsibilities

• Oversee day-to-day operation, maintenance, reliability, and continuous improvement of core infrastructure platforms (storage, networking, backup/recovery, virtualization, related services).
• Perform routine operational work: patching, moves, adds, and changes; validate backups and maintenance windows; resolve incidents and service requests.
• Collaborate with IT teams, vendors, and stakeholders to complete tasks on schedule; identify risks and optimize infrastructure services.
• Recommend practical alternatives to improve resiliency, security, performance, and cost effectiveness.
• Lead infrastructure maintenance activities and coordinate cross-functional technical work.

Skills

Cross-functional coordination

Problem solving

Documentation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT, CS, Engineering or related field

Tools

Virtualization

Data center technologies

Cloud services

Job description

Overview

The Washington, DC 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.