Senior Security Engineer, Telemetry & Network Visibility

Talentify; Brooklyn Park (MN); Hybrid; USD 105,000 - 132,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401k Contributions

Critical Illness Insurance

Voluntary Life Insurance

Accident Insurance

Other Perks

Job summary

LanceSoft is seeking an accomplished Network Engineer to join our team in a hybrid role in Minnesota. The candidate will design and operate large-scale telemetry and visibility platforms, manage Linux-based environments, and implement modern configuration management and orchestration standards.

Collaboration across security, reliability, and operations will be essential. The role requires 8+ years of relevant experience, a 4-year degree or equivalent, strong scripting skills in Python or Bash,

Qualifications

• 4-year degree or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of network engineering, network visibility architecture, or network security engineering.
• Experience designing and operating large-scale telemetry/visibility platforms (high-throughput packet capture, sensor fleets, log pipelines).
• Strong experience administering Linux (RHEL/CentOS, Ubuntu, or equivalent).
• Proven experience designing and operating enterprise configuration management and orchestration tools (e.g., Ansible, Salt, Puppet, Chef, Terraform, etc.).
• Demonstrates expertise in analysis and optimization of systems capacity, performance, and operational health.
• Ability to diagnose issues across system, application, and network layers.
• Experience working in production environments with change control and operational discipline.
• Solid understanding of TCP/IP, routing protocols, VLANs, NAT, DNS, DHCP, and firewall concepts.
• Scripting experience (Python, Bash, or similar) for automation and tooling.
• Effectively communicate engineering solutions through detailed high- and low-level diagrams and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate the current configuration management and orchestration environment, identifying gaps, risks, and opportunities for improvement. Based on your findings, design a modern, scalable solution and drive its end-to-end implementation from architecture through rollout to ensure a secure, reliable, and efficient operational foundation.
• Define architecture and engineering standards (patterns, guardrails, CI/CD, configuration governance) for the NSM platform.
• Lead design reviews and architectural decision records (ADRs); ensure solutions meet security, reliability, and operability requirements.

Skills

Linux administration

Networking fundamentals

Scripting

Telemetry platforms

Technical communication

Change management

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Ansible

Salt

Puppet

Chef

Terraform

Docker

Git

Wireshark

tcpdump

Job description

LanceSoft is seeking an accomplished Network Engineer to join our team in a hybrid role in Minnesota. The candidate will design and operate large-scale telemetry and visibility platforms, manage Linux-based environments, and implement modern configuration management and orchestration standards.

Collaboration across security, reliability, and operations will be essential. The role requires 8+ years of relevant experience, a 4-year degree or equivalent, strong scripting skills in Python or Bash,