Senior Network Engineer — Top Benefits & Growth

Futurex; Bulverde (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision, life, and long

Paid vacation and holidays

Retirement plan with employer match

Best Places to Work recognition

Family-style corporate culture

Job summary

Futurex in Texas is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to design and support our data center and corporate networks. You will manage firewalls, switches, and related infrastructure, ensuring availability, security, and performance in production environments.

This role requires 10+ years of experience, strong scripting skills (Python, Bash), and familiarity with SNMP/DNS/NTP/TLS/SSL. You will collaborate with stakeholders and DevOps teams to optimize operations and meet SLA commitments.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in managing firewalls and network switches.
• Experience upgrading networking equipment and maintaining backups
• Experience reviewing firewall traffic logs
• Experience with scripting languages such as Python and Bash
• Familiarity with network architecture and design best practices
• Familiarity with SNMP, DNS, NTP, TLS/SSL

Responsibilities

• Maintain, support, and design network infrastructures in a data center and corporate environments.
• Manage network firewall and switch equipment, including racking, stacking, and cabling.
• Troubleshoot network, firewall, and infrastructure issues, assist Support Engineers in troubleshooting issues.
• Maintain firewall and switch configurations, and update firewall and switch operating systems.
• Analyze service stack and make recommendations for further improvements.
• Design out and implement network infrastructure with taking into consideration availability, scalability, and security with relation to SLA requirements.
• Identify processes and capabilities that can be streamlined and automated.
• Communicate effectively to help bridge stakeholder and development requirements.
• Work directly on production-level environments in a fast-paced, results-oriented organization with a rapid time to market.

Skills

Firewall & switch administration

Scripting (Python, Bash)

Network architecture & design

Troubleshooting networks

Stakeholder communication

Production environment operations

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Cisco IOS/NX-OS

Palo Alto Firewalls

Barracuda Firewalls

Splunk / Nagios / SolarWinds

VPNs

DevOps / SRE practices

Job description

Futurex in Texas is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to design and support our data center and corporate networks. You will manage firewalls, switches, and related infrastructure, ensuring availability, security, and performance in production environments.

This role requires 10+ years of experience, strong scripting skills (Python, Bash), and familiarity with SNMP/DNS/NTP/TLS/SSL. You will collaborate with stakeholders and DevOps teams to optimize operations and meet SLA commitments.