Senior Network Design Engineer - Hybrid Data Center

Corebridge Financial; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work policy

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

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

You will partner with architecture, security, cloud, and operations teams to translate requirements into resilient, scalable designs, covering data center, WAN, SD‑WAN, LAN, Wi‑Fi, firewall integration and observability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Network Engineering, or equivalent enterprise network experience.
• 10+ years of experience designing, engineering, deploying, or supporting enterprise and global network solutions across data center connectivity, complex enterprise routing and switching, SD‑WAN, SD‑LAN, LAN, Wi‑Fi, VOIP, DDI, NAC, internet, extranet, firewall integration, and load‑balancing environments.
• 5+ years of experience as a senior network design engineer, lead network engineer, solution engineer, or technical lead responsible for design execution, engineering decisions, implementation readiness, technical governance, and cross‑team delivery of complex network infrastructure.
• Financial‑services or other regulated‑industry experience is highly preferred.
• Hands‑on expertise in software‑defined networking, enterprise network fabrics, policy‑based networking, template‑driven configuration, and modern platforms such as Cisco ACI, Arista, Aruba, Meraki, Juniper, Alkira, Equinix, and Megaport.
• Strong enterprise networking fundamentals across routing, switching, BGP, DDI (DNS/DHCP/IPAM), segmentation, high availability, resiliency patterns, ZTNA, and wireless‑first office environments.
• Design and deploy resilient data center network fabrics using Cisco ACI, Arista spine‑leaf architectures, Cloud Vision, segmentation, routing integration, high availability, and scalable data center connectivity patterns.
• Design and deliver branch and remote‑site network solutions with Aruba Branch Suite capabilities for SD‑WAN, LAN, wireless, and CP NAC; Meraki Branch Suite capabilities for SD-WAN, LAN, and wireless; and supporting services such as VOIP, internet, VPN, and operational telemetry.
• Leverage network automation and operational tooling to improve configuration compliance, deployment repeatability, validation, and observability using Python, NetBrain, NetScout, OpenText Network Automation, AppViewX, Spectrum, Cloud Vision, Aruba Central, scripting, API‑based workflows, and templates.
• Integrate application delivery and network security capabilities, including F5 LTM/GTM, AppViewX, Palo Alto firewalls, WAF, DDoS protection, NAC/ClearPass, Netskope, related cloud proxy platforms, ZTNA concepts, and regulated‑enterprise security controls

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.

Skills

Network design

Engineering leadership

SD-WAN

SD-LAN

Cisco ACI

Aruba

Meraki

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS/Engineering

CCNP/CCIE or equivalent

Tools

Python

NetScout

AppViewX

Cisco ACI

Arista

Job description

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

You will partner with architecture, security, cloud, and operations teams to translate requirements into resilient, scalable designs, covering data center, WAN, SD‑WAN, LAN, Wi‑Fi, firewall integration and observability.