Network Engineer Senior

Acuity Inc.; New York (NY); Remote; USD 83,000 - 164,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care

Dental coverage

Vision plans

401K benefits

Commissions/incentive compensation

Job summary

Acuity Inc. is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to design, secure, deploy, and scale reliable network infrastructure both on site and in the Azure cloud. You will collaborate with LAN admins and security teams to improve availability, reliability, and performance of our products and services.

The role emphasizes firewall administration, VPN tunneling, and multi-ISP routing, with a focus on security-minded operations and incident response. Remote work is standard for our distributed teams.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in network infrastructure engineering.
• Strong firewall administration and VPN experience required.
• Experience with Azure cloud and security monitoring tools.

Responsibilities

• Build site-to-site VPN tunnels and secure firewall rules.
• Maintain network configurations across LAN and WAN.
• Troubleshoot complex network issues and outages.
• Lead incident resolution efforts and postmortems.
• Design and implement monitoring/automation for uptime.
• Collaborate with security and other engineering teams.

Skills

Firewall administration

VPN tunnels

Multi-ISP routing

Network security

WAN/LAN configurations

TLS/SSL management

Incident response

Azure cloud experience

Monitoring & automation

Tools

SolarWinds

PRTG

Azure Monitor

Job description

Acuity Inc. (NYSE: AYI) is a market-leading industrial technology company. We use technology to solve problems in spaces, light and more things to come. Through our two business segments, Acuity Brands Lighting (ABL) and Acuity Intelligent Spaces (AIS), we design, manufacture, and bring to market products and services that make a valuable difference in people’s lives.We achieve growth through the development of innovative new products and services, including lighting, lighting controls, building management solutions, and an audio, video and control platform. We focus on customer outcomes and drive growth and productivity to increase market share and deliver superior returns. We look to aggressively deploy capital to grow the business and to enter attractive new verticals.Acuity Inc. is based in Atlanta, Georgia, with operations across North America, Europe and Asia. The Company is powered by approximately 13,000 dedicated and talented associates. Visit us at www.acuityinc.com.

Job Summary

Are you passionate about building reliable and secure network infrastructure? Acuity Inc is seeking a Senior Network Engineer with a focus on firewall administration and a security mindset to join our Infrastructure Engineering team. As part of our team, you'll have the opportunity to design, secure, deploy, scale, and maintain highly available network infrastructure both on site as well as in the cloud with Azure.Our team's focus is on quantifying and improving the availability, reliability, security, and performance of our products and services. You'll collaborate closely with LAN admins and security teams to achieve these goals.We embrace a culture of trust, respect, asynchronous communication, creativity, and customer value. Remote work is the norm for our highly distributed teams.

Key Tasks & Responsibilities (Essential Functions)

As a Network Infrastructure Engineer, you'll play a critical role in ensuring the reliability and security of our IT infrastructure and cloud applications. Your responsibilities will include:

• Building site-to-site VPN tunnels
• Maintaining a secure limited access firewall rule base
• Building network configurations and connections across LAN and WAN.
• Troubleshooting network problems.
• IP address allocation and maintenance to avoid overlaps.
• Maintaining firmware on switches, APs, load balancers and other devices.
• Network segmentation.
• Voice and Call Center system configuration.
• Leading incident resolution efforts and postmortems.
• Designing and implementing monitoring and automation tools.
• A system operations mindset focused on maintaining uptime and addressing disruptions.
• Strong collaboration skills to work with other engineering teams.
• Familiarity with monitoring systems such as SolarWinds, PRTG, Azure.
• Experience with web networking, TLS, SSL certificate management, reverse proxies, and load balancing.
• Excellent written communication skills.
• A passion for solving complex problems and continuous improvement.
• Some travel may be required.

Skills and Minimum Experience Required

7+ years of experience in a similar role.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• In depth experience with firewall administration, VPN tunnels, and multi-ISP routing
• Network access control (NAC) systems
• Network switch and AP hardware configuration and installation
• Network design, implementation and troubleshooting.
• Network segmentation that includes security limits with ACLs, NACs, and firewalls.
• Wireless network security with 802.1x and certificate authentication.
• WAF experience with DDoS and Bot protections
• Incident response and/or incident management experience.
• Experience with highly available distributed systems.
• Experience with OT (Operational Technology) network segmentation is a plus
• Experience defining SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure cloud platform.

The range for this position is $83,300.00 to $164,400.00. Placement within this range may vary, depending on the applicant’s experience and geographic location.

Acuity offers generous benefits including health care, dental coverage, vision plans, 401K benefits, and commissions/incentive compensation depending on the role.

We value diversity and are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regards to race, color, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity or national origin, disability, pregnancy, religion, covered veteran status, protected genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Accommodation for Applicants with Disabilities: As an equal opportunity employer, Acuity Inc. is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in its application process for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans. If you have difficulty using our online system due to a disability and need an accommodation, you may contact us at , select option 4. Please clearly indicate what type of accommodation you are requesting and for what requisition.