Senior Network Solutions Engineer

Quest Talent Solutions; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Quest Talent Solutions partners with a growing data center organization to hire a Senior Network Solutions Engineer. You will design, implement, secure, and support mission-critical networks across facilities, serving as the technical lead for the network function.

You will mentor engineers, manage vendors and budgets, and collaborate with senior leadership on network strategy and infrastructure planning to scale high-availability environments.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of network engineering experience in data centers or critical facilities.
• Strong Layer 2/Layer 3, routing, switching, firewall, VPN, and security experience.
• Hands-on with physical deployments, site commissioning, and upgrades.
• Experience managing teams, vendors, budgets, and cross-functional projects.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and support highly available data center networks.
• Support OT and facility systems like BMS, EPMS, access control, surveillance.
• Configure and manage switches, routers, firewalls, VPNs, VLANs, security controls.
• Lead network planning for new facilities, expansions, and upgrades.
• Manage vendors, service providers, and network budgets.
• Develop standards, documentation, and long-term network strategy.
• Support cybersecurity, DR, incident response, and compliance.
• Partner with IT, Facilities, Operations, Security, and leadership; grow the team.

Skills

Data center networks

Network security

Routing & switching

VPN

OT/ facility networks

Vendor & budget management

Leadership & mentoring

Job description

We are partnering with a growing data center organization seeking a Senior Network Solutions Engineer to lead the design, implementation, security, and ongoing support of network infrastructure across mission-critical facilities.

This role will serve as the technical lead for the network function, with responsibility for helping build and scale the team, managing vendors and budgets, and partnering with senior leadership on network strategy and infrastructure planning.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and support highly available data center and critical-facility networks
• Support OT and facility systems including BMS, EPMS, power/cooling monitoring, access control, surveillance, and environmental systems
• Configure and manage switches, routers, firewalls, VPNs, VLANs, and network security controls
• Lead network planning for new facilities, expansions, retrofits, and technology upgrades
• Manage vendors, service providers, infrastructure costs, and network-related budgets
• Develop standards, processes, documentation, and long-term network strategy
• Support cybersecurity, vulnerability remediation, compliance, disaster recovery, and incident response
• Partner with Construction, Operations, Facilities, IT, Information Security, and executive leadership
• Help build, mentor, and grow the network engineering function

Ideal Background

• 7+ years of network engineering experience in data centers, critical facilities, industrial, or other high-availability environments
• Strong Layer 2/Layer 3, routing, switching, firewall, VPN, and network-security experience
• Hands‑on experience with physical network deployments, site commissioning, and infrastructure upgrades
• Exposure to OT / facility systems such as BMS, EPMS, SCADA, access control, surveillance, or power/cooling systems
• Experience managing teams, vendors, budgets, and cross‑functional projects
• Comfortable presenting technical strategy and recommendations to senior leadership
• Ability to travel to facilities as needed