Senior Network Engineer

Delta Dental; Rancho Cordova (CA); Hybrid; USD 81,000 - 176,000; Full time

Job summary

Delta Dental is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to support the enterprise network infrastructure, ensuring highly available services across all locations. You will design, implement, and maintain network equipment including routers, switches, firewalls, VPNs, and wireless controls, with a focus on performance and reliability.

The role is hybrid with onsite requirements in Rancho Cordova, CA, requiring 1–2 onsite days per week.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional network engineering experience with a related degree or equivalent.
• Experience with firewall infrastructure and management.
• Experience with F5 load balancers.
• Experience with routing and switching (Cisco/Arista).
• Ability to lead enterprise network implementations and mentor others.
• Experience with network monitoring tools is a nice to have (SolarWinds/Datadog).

Responsibilities

• Plans, designs and implements enterprise network upgrades/changes and IT refreshes.
• Configures network infrastructure (switches, routers, firewalls, VPNs, load balancers, wireless).
• Designs and maintains F5 VIPs and firewall ACLs.
• Troubleshoots network issues affecting applications and performance.
• Collaborates with technical teams to deploy new technologies and support changes.
• Participates in on-call rotation and after-hours support.

Skills

Firewall infrastructure

Network design & optimization

LAN/WAN/MAN/SAN concepts

Project leadership & mentoring

Quantitative cost/benefit analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / IT / Engineering

Tools

F5 Load Balancers

Cisco/Arista Devices

SolarWinds

Datadog

VPN

Wireless Controllers

Job description

*This role does not offer visa sponsorship. Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S. without current or future sponsorship, including CPT, OPT, TN, or H-1B.**This is a hybrid position with onsite requirements. Candidates should live within a reasonable commuting distance (approximately 50 miles) of Rancho Cordova, CA, and will be expected to work onsite 1-2 days per week. The Senior Network Engineer will be responsible for support of the enterprise network infrastructure to ensure that computer/telephony communications for all Delta Dental locations are functional, operational and optimized to provide highly available network services to the Delta Dental enterprise. This includes network infrastructure engineering and maintenance of all network equipment to support a broad range of communication services to include, but not limited to disciplines such as Network LAN, WAN, MAN, SAN, Wireless, VPNs, Firewalls, Security, VoIP, Video Conferencing, Load Balancers, etc.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional network engineering experience with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.
• Experience with firewall infrastructure and management.
• Experience with F5 load balancers.
• Experience with routing and switching, including Cisco and/or Arista network devices.
• Ability to understand business plans and apply that information into the development of an IT business case.
• Anticipates problems, resistance or likely objections and takes action to resolve them.
• Ability to lead and manage small to large enterprise network implementations or changes.
• Ability to guide, train and mentor associate engineers.
• Highly skilled in developing quantitative cost/benefit analysis to measure improvements.
• Proficient in organizational processes as well as capable of assessing and initiating change of such processes.
• Demonstrates an in-depth knowledge and application of competency and can consult as well as lead others in its application.
• Experience with network monitoring tools such as SolarWinds and/or Datadog is nice to have.

Base Pay Information

The national base pay range at the end is a good-faith estimate of what Delta Dental may pay for new hires. Actual pay may vary based on Delta Dental’s assessment of the candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities (KSAs), related experience, education, certifications and ability to meet required minimum job qualifications. Other factors impacting pay include prevailing wages in the work location and internal equity. Pay Grade 21. $81,265 - $176,073

Responsibilities

• Plans, designs and implements enterprise network infrastructure equipment upgrades/changes, IT equipment refreshes as well as incorporate large facility relocations & office moves
• Plans, coordinates, implements and configures various types of network infrastructure (switches, routers, firewalls, out-of-band equipment, load balancers, wireless controllers, VPN, etc.)
• Responsible for plan and design of F5 Load Balancer infrastructure and creates and maintains application related VIPs
• Plans, designs and implements Cisco firewall infrastructure and ability to create ACL’s
• Troubleshoots network infrastructure equipment and circuits as it relates to application and performance issues
• Works with technical teams to design and implement new or advanced technologies
• Designs, plans and implements highly technical and complicated changes
• Designs, plans and provides network support for new applications
• Participates in an on-call rotation and performs after-hours network changes and support as needed.