Senior Network & Security Engineer (Remote)

Blackmtx; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan with company/em

Professional development & certificate/

Job summary

Black Mountain Dynamics seeks a Senior Network Engineer to lead advanced networking, security, identity, and endpoint escalations. You will guide incidents, mentor junior engineers, and drive best-practice documentation and standards across client environments.

The role combines hands-on engineering with service leadership, requiring calm ownership, strong technical judgment, and clear communication under pressure.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience configuring and supporting MSP or enterprise networks.
• Bachelor's degree in Networking, CS, or a related field.
• Strong documentation and communication skills; able to lead complex troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

• Own highest-complexity escalations across network, security, identity, endpoint, SaaS, monitoring, and infrastructure.
• Lead troubleshooting for complex, recurring, architectural, or security-sensitive issues with root-cause focus.
• Mentor Tier 1/2 engineers and improve documentation and standards.
• Design, implement, troubleshoot, and support LAN/WAN/WLAN, firewall, VPN, and segmentation.
• Coordinate incident response for security events and ensure proper follow-up.
• Review firewall policies, logs, and network changes; provide senior sign-off.
• Create RCA summaries and standards documentation; develop SOPs and playbooks.

Skills

Enterprise networking

Security & incident response

NOC escalation

Identity & SaaS management

LAN/WAN/WLAN, firewall & VPN

Documentation & standards

Mentorship

Education

Bachelor's degree in Networking, CS or related field

Tools

Palo Alto Networks

Juniper

Cisco

Aruba/Meraki

PRTG

Unimus

SIEM

JumpCloud

Microsoft 365

Google Workspace

Hudu

HaloPSA

Slack

Job description

Black Mountain Dynamics seeks a Senior Network Engineer to lead advanced networking, security, identity, and endpoint escalations. You will guide incidents, mentor junior engineers, and drive best-practice documentation and standards across client environments.

The role combines hands-on engineering with service leadership, requiring calm ownership, strong technical judgment, and clear communication under pressure.