Senior Network Engineer

Kulicke & Soffa; Fort Washington (Montgomery County); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Kulicke & Soffa seeks a Senior Network Engineer for the Global IT Organization at the Fort Washington site. You will manage a portfolio of network and firewall infrastructure, ensuring high availability and strong IT security, while driving network and system projects.

You will collaborate across teams and vendors, perform configuration changes on network devices, and support upgrades and security initiatives to sustain global operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, Engineering or related field.
• 5+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Experience with large-scale multi-vendor networks (Cisco, Check Point, Palo Alto, Zscaler).
• Strong knowledge of LAN/WAN troubleshooting and network security best practices.
• Understanding of IP routing/switching and network analysis tools.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate to design, deploy, and operate global network infrastructure.
• Maintain high availability and IT security for users.
• Perform scheduled changes on network devices (switches, routers, firewalls, load balancers, proxies, WLAN).
• Manage IT projects and upgrades to hardware/software.
• Handle incident response, problem management, and change management.

Skills

Network engineering

LAN & WAN troubleshooting

Network security

Scripting (Python/Perl)

SD-WAN

Change management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT/Engineering

Tools

Cisco

Check Point

Palo Alto

Zscaler

Job description

The Senior Network Engineer in Global IT Organization, will be in Fort Washington site and reporting to Network Manager located in Singapore. This position will manage a portfolio of IT Network and Firewall infrastructure efficiency. This includes providing operational support, ensuring high availability, high IT Security and implement Network and system projects.

Responsibilities

• Collaborating with team members to design, deploy, and operate network infrastructure globally.
• Work cross-functionally with internal teams and vendors to design and operate the network (circuit, hardware deployment, project execution, etc.), with a strong focus on maintaining a high level of availability and IT Security for our users.
• Perform scheduled configuration changes on network switches, routers, firewalls, load-balancer, proxy server, and wireless devices.
• To manage IT projects and support infrastructure hardware & software technologies upgrades and system implementation
• To perform network operations and management, including incident response, problem management, and change management.
• To perform operations due diligence and ensure security & resiliency of the network platform.
• Identify network issues and recommend appropriate solutions.
• Dealing with escalated network support issues.
• Drawing up network status reports

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, in Information Technology, Engineering or related field
• At least 5 years of relevant professional experience
• Knowledge of implementing and supporting large scale multi-vendor networks (Cisco, Check Point, Palo Alto, Zscaler, in Azure cloud, in OCI cloud)
• Strong experience with network change management control policies, LAN & WAN troubleshooting skills, and an understanding of network security best practices
• Good understanding of IP routing and switching technologies.
• Familiar with network analysis tools
• High level problem-solving and communication skills
• Ability to respond to emergency situations promptly and be able to perform system upgrades or project execution after office hour/weekend where necessary.
• Experience in supporting SD-WAN and Cisco NAC is a plus.
• Proficiency with coding languages (e.g., Python and Perl) is a plus.