Senior Network Engineer( Network Operations )-Senior Enterprise Communications Engineer

Northwell Health; Melville (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Northwell Health is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to support and improve the organization’s enterprise network, including LAN, WAN, WLAN, VPN, internet, and Google Cloud networking environments.

The role requires on-call rotation, on-site support in Long Island/Suffolk County, and strong expertise in routing, switching, and cloud networking to maintain high availability across multiple locations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of education and related experience.
• 3-5 years of relevant experience, required.

Responsibilities

• Ensure integrity of networking and communications systems software, hardware, and configurations.
• Identify, engineer and program networking infrastructure and communication applications.
• Develop knowledge base documents and transfer knowledge within the team.
• Evaluate project requests and recommend appropriate action.
• Administer installation and repair services.
• Provide first-level resolution for health system locations.
• Guide and direct engineering teams and outside technicians.

Skills

TCP/IP networking

OSSI model understanding

Enterprise routing & switching

BGP/EIGRP

VLANs/Trunks/Spanning Tree

WAN technologies

Wireless networking

VPN & remote-access

Firewall basics

DNS/DHCP/ACLs

Cloud networking (GCP)

Network troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

Overview

The Senior Network Engineer is responsible for the operational support, maintenance, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement of Northwell Health's enterprise network infrastructure, including LAN, WAN, WLAN, VPN, internet connectivity, and Google Cloud networking environments.

On-Call and Location Requirements

• Must be willing and able to participate in a rotating on-call schedule that includes nights, weekends, holidays, and emergency response for critical network incidents.
• Ability to support operational and onsite requirements as needed in Long Island/Suffolk County

Required Technical Skills

• Strong knowledge of TCP/IP networking and the OSI model, with the ability to apply these concepts during real-world troubleshooting.
• Advanced experience supporting enterprise routing and switching environments.
• Strong working knowledge of routing protocols, including BGP and EIGRP.
• Experience troubleshooting VLANs, trunks, spanning tree, routing, ACLs, NAT, DNS, DHCP, MTU, latency, packet loss, and network performance issues.
• Experience with enterprise WAN technologies and geographically distributed network environments.
• Working knowledge of enterprise wireless networking and troubleshooting.
• Experience with firewalls, remote-access VPN technologies, and network-security fundamentals.
• Experience using packet captures, network monitoring tools, logs, CLI diagnostics, and performance data to isolate complex issues.
• Knowledge of cloud networking, preferably Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including VPCs, routing, connectivity, and hybrid-cloud architectures.
• Ability to independently troubleshoot complex production issues across multiple network domains and technologies.

Preferred Certifications

• Cisco CCNP
• Palo Alto Networks certifications
• Google Cloud certifications
• Other relevant enterprise networking, security, wireless, or cloud certifications
• 7-10 years of relevant experience, preferred

Technology Experience Preferred

Experience with one or more of the following is highly desirable:

• Cisco enterprise routing and switching
• Palo Alto Networks firewalls and Panorama
• Enterprise wireless technologies
• SD-WAN technologies
• Google Cloud networking
• Enterprise VPN technologies
• Network monitoring and observability platforms
• ServiceNow or similar IT service-management platforms

Job Description

Ensures integrity of the network devices, communication systems software, hardware. Identifies, programs and maintains all network and communication applications. Assists and participates in the review and design of new or existing network infrastructure and systems. Develops and conducts in-service training on new applications.

Job Responsibility

• Responsible for engineering and integrity of the networking and communication system’s software, hardware, and configurations.
• Responsible for identifying, engineering/designing and programming of networking infrastructure and communication applications.
• Develops knowledge base documents and conducts knowledge transfer among engineering team.
• Assists in the review and evaluation of project requests and recommends appropriate action.
• Administers installation and repair services.
• Responsible for first level problem resolution for all health system locations.
• Gives guidance and direction to engineering team and outside service technicians.
• Operates under limited guidance and work assignments involve moderately complex to complex issues where the analysis of situations or data requires in-depth evaluation of variable factors.
• Performs related duties as required. All responsibilities noted here are considered essential functions of the job under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Duties not mentioned here, but considered related are not essential functions.

Job Qualification

• Bachelor's Degree required, or equivalent combination of education and related experience
• 3-5 years of relevant experience, required.
• Additional Salary Detail The salary range and/or hourly rate listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future.When determining a team member's base salary and/or rate, several factors may be considered as applicable (e.g., location, specialty, service line, years of relevant experience, education, credentials, negotiated contracts, budget and internal equity).