Senior Network Engineer – Design, Troubleshoot & Mentor

WECU; Bellingham (WA); On-site; USD 96,000 - 136,000; Full time

Job summary

WECU is seeking a Network Engineer to join our IT Infrastructure team in Bellingham, WA. The role focuses on building and maintaining day-to-day network operations, including design, documentation, implementation, and ongoing support of the organization’s network infrastructure.

As a mentor and escalation point, you will collaborate with other teams, drive troubleshooting, and ensure high availability and security.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or related field.
• Minimum of 4 years progressively responsible IT experience.
• Cisco router, switches and firewall courses or equivalent training or experience.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to create accurate network diagrams and documentation for design and planning network communication systems.
• Strong background with network technologies including configuring, managing and monitoring, troubleshooting routing protocols, subnetting, and access controls and traffic shaping.
• Familiar with Cisco IOS and command line configuration and troubleshooting.
• Use Wireshark to perform packet capture and analysis for troubleshooting network and system issues.
• Basic familiarity with interpreted programing languages, (such as PowerShell, PERL, VBS, PHP).

Responsibilities

• Monitor, maintain and administer network equipment and related computing environments including, but not limited to, network monitoring techniques and tools that support unattended operations and daily network related alerts and activities.
• Troubleshooting, diagnosing and resolving hardware, software, and other network and system problems in a prompt and timely manner. Participate in scheduled maintenance windows to insure optimal operations. Recommend upgrades and replacement cycles to insure high availability of the network infrastructure.
• Ensure that proper backup and disaster recovery policies and procedures are followed, functioning properly, periodically tested and reviewed for designated systems.
• Participate on projects to help scope system requirements and manages technical projects as assigned.
• Responsible for writing technical design and maintaining build documentation for the network infrastructure.
• Operate in a complex, highly secure, and highly available operations environment and interact with the subject matter experts required to operate and maintain those environments.
• Demonstrate and maintain strict levels of confidentiality and security.
• Organize projects, prioritizes workflow, and complete multiple tasks simultaneously and accurately.
• Represent the credit union in a positive, professional manner in person, on the telephone and in written correspondence with staff, members and vendors.
• Follows policy and procedures related to Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Customer Identification Program (CIP) and Customer Due Diligence (CDD) daily to ensure compliance with current regulations. Follows policy and procedures related to SARs by reporting suspicious activity to the Compliance department. Responsible for filling out an incident report for detected computer intrusion of Credit Union computer systems per Bank Secrecy Act. Completes mandatory BSA/AML annual training via online web course.
• Follows WECU's policies and all applicable laws and regulations.
• Performs other duties as assigned and may also assist others to complete tasks and work assignments.

Skills

Cisco routing & switching

Network monitoring

Troubleshooting & problem solving

Documentation & diagrams

CLI / Cisco IOS familiarity

Packet capture with Wireshark

Scripting basics (PowerShell, PERL)

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology

Tools

Wireshark

Cisco IOS CLI

Job description

WECU is seeking a Network Engineer to join our IT Infrastructure team in Bellingham, WA. The role focuses on building and maintaining day-to-day network operations, including design, documentation, implementation, and ongoing support of the organization’s network infrastructure.

As a mentor and escalation point, you will collaborate with other teams, drive troubleshooting, and ensure high availability and security.