Senior Network Engineer - Global Enterprise, Hybrid

Albemarle Corporation; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 25,000 - 44,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Comprehensive benefits package

Global exposure

Job summary

Albemarle Corporation is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to own and evolve the global enterprise network. The role demands hands-on engineering across LAN, WAN, WLAN, cloud, and security services, plus leadership of multicountry projects.

You will design and implement routing, switching, and firewall strategies, while ensuring security and high availability across regions. Strong collaboration and clear communication across time zones are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT, CS, engineering or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of progressive enterprise network engineering experience in multi-site environments.
• Experience owning or leading an enterprise firewall platform (architecture, operations, governance).
• Advanced experience with NGFWs and centralized management platforms (Fortinet, Cisco, Palo Alto preferred).
• Strong knowledge of firewall policy, zones, segmentation, VPNs, logging, HA, upgrades, and troubleshooting.
• Advanced routing/switching with BGP/EIGRP/OSPF, VRF, VLAN, 802.1Q, STP, QoS, and SD-WAN.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, support, and optimize enterprise LAN/WAN/WLAN, cloud, and security services.
• Engineer routing, switching, segmentation, and connectivity to meet business needs with security and resiliency.
• Lead firewall platform strategy, lifecycle management, standards, and governance.
• Act as escalation point for firewall architecture, policy, VPN, logging, and centralized management.
• Troubleshoot complex network issues using captures, logs, and telemetry.
• Lead or contribute to global network projects, site deployments, and transformations.
• Monitor capacity, availability, and performance; propose improvements proactively.
• Create diagrams, standards, and SOPs; support incident response and on-call duties.

Skills

Firewall policy

Routing & switching

Global collaboration

English communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS/Engineering

Tools

Fortinet FortiGate

Cisco IOS

Meraki

Job description

Albemarle Corporation is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to own and evolve the global enterprise network. The role demands hands-on engineering across LAN, WAN, WLAN, cloud, and security services, plus leadership of multicountry projects.

You will design and implement routing, switching, and firewall strategies, while ensuring security and high availability across regions. Strong collaboration and clear communication across time zones are essential.