Senior Network Engineer — 24/7 On-Call Networking

The Clearing House; North Carolina; On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

The Clearing House in Winston-Salem, NC seeks a Specialist Network Engineer to design, implement, and maintain our enterprise network infrastructure, ensuring uninterrupted operations. You will work across data centers, manage upgrades, and support security and performance.

Eligible candidates have 5+ years in network engineering, CCNA, and strong collaboration skills. This role requires on-call availability and the ability to deploy changes during off-hours to keep critical services running

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT or related field.
• 5+ years in network engineering or related field.
• CCNA required; CCNP track a plus.
• Experience with large LAN/MAN/WAN environments; Cisco devices; on-call availability.

Responsibilities

• Participates in planning, design, implementation, installation, testing and maintenance of the network infrastructure.
• Ensure QA and adherence to installation standards and project development methodology.
• Assist in preparing project and unit budgets.
• Obtain quotes and assist in the preparation of proposals for network equipment.
• Create and maintain configuration and procedural documentation; proficient with MS Office & Visio.
• Develop and implement efficient network utilization strategies and security standards.
• Deploy and install equipment and cabling; rack and stack up to 25 pounds.
• Knowledge of global data centers and colocation facilities.
• Review and harden network configurations per company standards.
• Knowledge of security models including encryption and key management.

Skills

OSI model knowledge

Network performance monitoring

TCP/IP/SSL/DNS understanding

Excellent communication

On-call readiness

Project coordination

Scripting (Python)

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field

Tools

WhatsUp Gold

SolarWinds

OpManager

Wireshark

F5 GTM/LTM

Cisco IPS/IDS

RSA security products

Ivanti SSL VPN

VMware NSX

AWS

Azure

Cisco ISE

Job description

The Clearing House in Winston-Salem, NC seeks a Specialist Network Engineer to design, implement, and maintain our enterprise network infrastructure, ensuring uninterrupted operations. You will work across data centers, manage upgrades, and support security and performance.

Eligible candidates have 5+ years in network engineering, CCNA, and strong collaboration skills. This role requires on-call availability and the ability to deploy changes during off-hours to keep critical services running