Senior Network Design Engineer

corebridgefinancial; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Corebridge Financial seeks a Senior Network Design Engineer to design, engineer, and plan enterprise network solutions for a large-scale, regulated financial-services environment.

You will partner with architecture, security, cloud, and business teams to translate requirements into resilient, scalable network designs and implementation plans, while ensuring operational readiness and cost effectiveness.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Network Engineering, or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Assess business, application, security, compliance, and operational requirements; identify practical network solutions; and prepare recommendations supported by feasibility, risk, cost, benefit, CapEx, OpEx, lifecycle, and supportability analysis.
• Develop and execute design-to-deployment plans that meet scope, schedule, cost, quality, resiliency, change-control, implementation sequencing, rollback, compliance, and operational-readiness requirements.
• Assess, mitigate, troubleshoot, and resolve complex network issues using industry-standard tools and methods, including packet analysis, flow analysis, telemetry, configuration-drift reporting, monitoring dashboards, fault-domain isolation, RCA practices, and NetScout.
• Develop processes, standards, diagrams, and documentation that support design execution, operational readiness, troubleshooting, and knowledge transfer.

Education

Bachelor's degree in information technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Network Engineering, or equivalent

Job description

Who We Are

At Corebridge Financial, we believe action is everything. That's why every day we partner with financial professionals and institutions to make it possible for more people to take action in their financial lives, for today and tomorrow.

• We are stronger as one: We collaborate across the enterprise, scale what works and act decisively for our customers and partners.
• We deliver on commitments: We are accountable, empower each other and go above and beyond for our stakeholders.
• We learn, improve and innovate: We get better each day by challenging the status quo and equipping ourselves for the future.
• We are inclusive: We embrace different perspectives, enabling our colleagues to make an impact and bring their whole selves to work.

Who You'll Work With

The Information Technology organization is the technological foundation of our business and works in collaboration with our partners from across the company. The team drives technology and digital transformation, partners with business leaders to design and execute new strategies through IT and operations services and ensures the necessary IT risk management and security measures are in place and aligned with enterprise architecture standards and principles.

About The Role

The Senior Network Design Engineer is a key technical role within the Network Services organization, responsible for designing, engineering, and planning the implementation of enterprise network solutions in a large-scale, regulated financial-services environment. This hands-on role partners closely with architecture, operations, security, cloud, application, managed services, vendor, and business teams to translate business, application, risk, audit, security, compliance, and operational needs into resilient, scalable, supportable, and cost-effective network designs. The scope includes data center, cloud connectivity, WAN, SD-WAN, SD-LAN, LAN, Wi-Fi, voice, internet, extranet, DDI, load balancing, firewall integration, VoIP, observability, automation, and emerging network technologies. The engineer will also develop design packages, reference architectures, scopes of work, implementation plans, change-readiness materials, risk reviews, rollback assessments, and operational handoff documentation to support successful delivery and long-term operational stability.

Responsibilities

Design, Delivery & Governance

• Assess business, application, security, compliance, and operational requirements; identify practical network solutions; and prepare recommendations supported by feasibility, risk, cost, benefit, CapEx, OpEx, lifecycle, and supportability analysis.
• Develop and execute design-to-deployment plans that meet scope, schedule, cost, quality, resiliency, change-control, implementation sequencing, rollback, compliance, and operational-readiness requirements.
• Assess, mitigate, troubleshoot, and resolve complex network issues using industry-standard tools and methods, including packet analysis, flow analysis, telemetry, configuration-drift reporting, monitoring dashboards, fault-domain isolation, RCA practices, and NetScout.
• Develop processes, standards, diagrams, and documentation that support design execution, operational readiness, troubleshooting, and knowledge transfer.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Provide technical leadership for network design and delivery by guiding engineering decisions, coordinating implementation teams, resolving technical blockers, validating design assumptions, and ensuring solutions aligning with enterprise architecture, information security, audit, regulatory compliance, service reliability, vendor governance, and business objectives.
• Build strong partnerships across the organization and with vendor partners, collaborating with peers, leaders, managed services providers, IT Security, Technology Risk, and cross-functional stakeholders to drive alignment and execution.
• Mentor team members, build technical capability, foster a collaborative team environment, and communicate clearly through strong listening, writing, and verbal communication skills.
• Champion innovation lead change, and support continuous improvement across network design, delivery, operations, managed services, capacity planning, resiliency, service reliability, vendor performance, cost optimization, and operational controls.
• Manage multiple large, complex, and concurrent projects while applying agile delivery practices, project management fundamentals, attention to detail, research skills, and strong execution discipline.
• Lead small to mid-size technical delivery teams through design reviews, implementation planning, peer reviews, change preparation, testing, cutover coordination, operational acceptance, and post-implementation validation.

Skills and Qualification:

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Network Engineering, or equivalent