Senior Network Engineer: Infra & Automation Architect

American Family Insurance Group; Madison (WI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision benefits

401(k) plan with company match

Pension plan and annual incentive

Paid holidays and PTO

Job summary

American Family Insurance Group is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to design, operate, and evolve our enterprise network in Madison, WI. You will balance hands-on engineering with automation, IaC, and modern networking technologies to deliver secure and scalable solutions.

You’ll collaborate with engineering, security, and business partners to simplify operations, improve reliability, and implement new capabilities across LAN, WAN, and cloud‑connected networks.

Qualifications

• Extensive design, operation and evolution of enterprise networks.
• Experience with LAN/WAN, routing, security, and DNS/DHCP services.
• Automation mindset with IaC exposure and scripting
• Strong communication with technical and nontechnical partners.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement network solutions for LAN, WAN, VPN, and wireless.
• Engineer modern network environments with Cisco SD-WAN, Meraki, and ACI.
• Support reliability, performance, and optimization of network infra.
• Manage DNS/DHCP/IPAM including Infoblox DDI for operations.
• Develop network automation and IaC to improve consistency and scale.
• Collaborate across teams and document configurations for stakeholders.

Skills

Network design

LAN/WAN

Cisco SD-WAN

Cisco Meraki

WiFi

Automation

Python

Ansible

Terraform

REST APIs

Tools

Infoblox DDI

GitLab

Job description

American Family Insurance Group is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to design, operate, and evolve our enterprise network in Madison, WI. You will balance hands-on engineering with automation, IaC, and modern networking technologies to deliver secure and scalable solutions.

You’ll collaborate with engineering, security, and business partners to simplify operations, improve reliability, and implement new capabilities across LAN, WAN, and cloud‑connected networks.