Senior Production Network Engineer - Automation & Reliability

Hamilton Barnes Associates Limited; New York (NY); On-site; USD 225,000 - 275,000; Full time

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Benefits

Job summary

Hamilton Barnes Associates Limited is seeking a Senior Network Engineer in New York to lead production network operations, troubleshoot complex L2/L3 issues, and drive automation and monitoring improvements. The role emphasizes on-call responsibilities, safe change planning, and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

The ideal candidate brings 5+ years of hands-on networking experience across routing, switching and firewalls, plus strong incident, change-management and stakeholder

Qualifications

• 5+ years' network/infrastructure engineering experience.
• Hands-on routing, switching and firewall expertise.
• Production network experience with L2/L3 operations.
• Comfortable owning complex incidents and on-call responsibilities.
• Strong change-management and troubleshooting discipline.
• Experience with network automation/infrastructure tooling.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Desirable: multicast/market data, observability/monitoring, VXLAN/EVPN experience.

Responsibilities

• Run, maintain and improve production network infrastructure
• Troubleshoot complex L2/L3 issues and own escalations end-to-end
• Work across routing, switching, firewalls and VXLAN/overlay networking
• Take part in an on-call rota and manage high-impact incidents
• Plan and execute safe production changes
• Identify recurring issues and implement permanent fixes
• Build and use automation/tooling to improve network operations
• Improve monitoring, reliability and operational processes

Skills

Network engineering

Routing & switching

Firewalls

Incident management

Troubleshooting

On-call readiness

Communication skills

Stakeholder management

Automation tooling

Network automation

Tools

VXLAN/EVPN

Monitoring systems

Network automation tools

Job description

Hamilton Barnes Associates Limited is seeking a Senior Network Engineer in New York to lead production network operations, troubleshoot complex L2/L3 issues, and drive automation and monitoring improvements. The role emphasizes on-call responsibilities, safe change planning, and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

The ideal candidate brings 5+ years of hands-on networking experience across routing, switching and firewalls, plus strong incident, change-management and stakeholder