Senior Network Architect & Automation Leader

Florida Blue; Jacksonville (FL); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 163,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plan

Paid time off

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Job summary

Florida Blue seeks a Senior Network Engineer to design, implement, and operate the enterprise network across campus, data center, cloud, and remote environments. This hands-on role also influences strategy, mentors teammates, and partners with security, cloud, and application teams.

The position is hybrid with in-office presence three days per week in Jacksonville, FL. You will deploy scalable networking solutions, develop automation, and contribute to resiliency through incident response and

Qualifications

• 5+ years related work experience in Network infrastructure design and administration.
• Related Bachelor’s degree or additional related equivalent work experience IT related field
• Must have extensive network operations knowledge and experience.
• Ability to manage tasks independently and take ownership of responsibilities.
• Ability to learn from mistakes and apply constructive feedback to improve performance.
• Ability to communicate highly complex technical information clearly and articulately to all levels and audiences.
• Ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment.
• High critical thinking skills to evaluate alternatives and present solutions that are consistent with business objectives and strategy.
• Have broad, expert knowledge of many tools or products (breadth) and have deep knowledge in at least one particular tool or product (depth).
• Proven leadership abilities including effective knowledge sharing, conflict resolution, facilitation of open discussions, fairness and displaying appropriate levels of assertiveness.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert level consulting services to internal and external customers and partners.
• Manage cloud network architecture including Transit Gateway and hub-and-spoke designs.
• Build and maintain network observability dashboards and alerts.
• Develop automation and Infrastructure-as-Code to streamline configuration management.
• Lead design and implementation of large-scale networking solutions.
• Create and maintain network documentation and runbooks.

Skills

Network design

Cloud networking

Leadership

Communication

Critical thinking

Adaptability

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT or related field

Tools

Datadog

ThousandEyes

SolarWinds

Python

Ansible

Terraform

Job description

Florida Blue seeks a Senior Network Engineer to design, implement, and operate the enterprise network across campus, data center, cloud, and remote environments. This hands-on role also influences strategy, mentors teammates, and partners with security, cloud, and application teams.

The position is hybrid with in-office presence three days per week in Jacksonville, FL. You will deploy scalable networking solutions, develop automation, and contribute to resiliency through incident response and