Senior Network Engineer

Alnylam Switzerland GmbH; United States; Hybrid; USD 144,500 - 195,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage

401(k) with generous company match

Generous paid time off and wellness days

Job summary

Alnylam Switzerland GmbH seeks a dedicated Senior Network Engineer to provide technical support for its global network infrastructure. The role includes engineering and optimizing network services across corporate offices and international sites, ensuring high availability and secure connectivity.

This hybrid position, primarily based in Cambridge, MA, requires strong expertise in network engineering, including 7+ years of experience and relevant certifications. Comprehensive benefits and competitive pay range from $144,500 to $195,500 are offered.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in enterprise network engineering.
• Experience in regulated environments such as biotech or pharma is preferred.
• Strong documentation and troubleshooting skills.

Responsibilities

• Engineer and optimize global LAN, WAN, Wi-Fi, and hybrid cloud connectivity.
• Maintain high availability and performance through proactive capacity planning.
• Serve as the escalation point for complex network incidents.

Skills

Enterprise network engineering

Routing and switching expertise

SD WAN

Firewall management

Enterprise Wi-Fi

Troubleshooting

Education

CCNP certification

AWS networking certifications

Job description

Overview

The Senior Network Engineer provides technical support for Alnylam’s global network infrastructure across corporate offices, R&D labs, manufacturing/OT environments, and international sites. This role leads major network initiatives, ensures highly available, secure, and scalable network services, and acts as the senior technical escalation point for complex issues. This position partners closely with the Network Architect to execute the global network strategy and oversee the technical quality of MSP delivered operations. This is a hybrid position and will primarily be based in Cambridge, MA.

Responsibilities

• Engineer, implement, and optimize global LAN, WAN, Wi-Fi, SD WAN, and hybrid cloud connectivity across all locations.
• Execute network architecture standards, ensuring secure and resilient connectivity for new site deployments, lab expansions, and integrations.
• Support cloud networking, ensuring reliable and optimized connectivity between on-prem and cloud environments.
• Implement and maintain firewall policies, segmentation strategies, and Zero Trust/NAC capabilities across corporate, lab, manufacturing, and regulated systems.
• Serve as the Tier 3 escalation point for complex network incidents, leading root cause analysis and strengthening monitoring and alerting capabilities.
• Ensure high availability and performance through proactive capacity planning and redundant design across global sites.
• Maintain accurate network documentation, runbooks, and change management standards to ensure consistent, controlled operations.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of enterprise network engineering experience supporting global, multi-site environments.
• Strong expertise in routing, switching, SD WAN, firewalls, enterprise Wi‑Fi, and core protocols (e.g., BGP, OSPF, VPNs, VLANs, QoS).
• Experience supporting regulated or manufacturing environments and working with managed service providers.
• Familiarity with Azure networking and hybrid cloud connectivity.
• Strong troubleshooting ability and disciplined documentation practices.
• CCNP certification (strongly preferred); CCIE a plus.
• AWS networking certifications, preferred.
• Experience in biotech, pharma, healthcare, or similar regulated industries, preferred.

U.S. Pay Range

$144,500.00 - $195,500.00

The pay range reflects the full-time base salary range we expect to pay for this role at the time of posting. Base pay will be determined based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, relevant experience, skills, and education. This role is eligible for an annual short-term incentive award (e.g., bonus or sales incentive) and an annual long-term incentive award (e.g., equity).

Benefits

Alnylam’s robust Total Rewards package is designed to support your overall health and well‑being. We offer comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, a lifestyle reimbursement program, flexible spending and health savings accounts and a 401(k) with a generous company match. Eligible employees enjoy paid time off, wellness days, holidays, and two company-wide recharge breaks. We also offer generous family resources and leave.

Learn more about these and additional benefits offered by Alnylam in the Benefits section of the Careers website: https://www.alnylam.com/careers

Equal Employment Opportunity

At Alnylam, we commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equal employment opportunity. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their sex, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, religion, creed, physical or mental disability, pregnancy status or related conditions, genetic information, veteran or military status, marital or familial status, political affiliation, age, or any other factor protected by federal, state, or local law. Alnylam is an E‑Verify Employer.