Sr Design Engineer

ameriprise; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 125,000 - 158,000; Full time

Job summary

Ameriprise Financial is seeking an experienced network engineer to design, implement, and support complex routing and switching across campus and data center networks. You will lead security-compliant changes and ensure high availability while mentoring junior staff.

The role emphasizes collaboration with IT disciplines, automation opportunities, and proactive capacity planning to scale with business growth. In-office collaboration is valued with flexible scheduling.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 7–10 years of network design and engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Independently perform highly complex network assignments.
• Design, architecture, deployment of routing and switching across campus and data centers.
• Lead network changes per security policies and business requirements.
• Monitor network performance and security; troubleshoot issues.
• Document configurations and procedures; support major incidents.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Customer service

Communication skills

Thought leadership

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Palo Alto

Cisco ASA

F5 Big-IP

Infoblox

CloudFlare

AWS

Azure

Job description

About Our Company

We're a diversified financial services leader with more than $1.5 trillion in assets under management, administration and advisement as of year-end 2024. Our team of 22,000 people across 19 countries, serves more than 3.5 million individual, small business and institutional clients. We are a longstanding leader in financial planning and advice, a global asset manager and an insurer. Our unwavering focus on our clients and strong financial foundation connects each of our unique businesses - Ameriprise Financial, Columbia Threadneedle Investments and RiverSource Insurance and Annuities. Here, we foster meaningful careers, invest in the future, and make a difference for clients, institutions and communities around the world.

Job Description

Provide technical expertise and direction in developing and supporting business and technology systems that run in our IBM Mainframe environment. Support complex enterprise architectures by developing, designing, configuring and implementing detailed engineering strategies/solutions that meet and/or exceed capability, flexibility, scalability, performance and reliability objectives for a variety of large projects, across multiple technologies, within technical area of expertise. Provide technical leadership to team/vendor/contractor resources, ensuring viability of designs, flawless execution, and seamless transition into the production environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Independently perform highly complex assignments.
• Network design, architecture, management, and deployment of new and existing routing and switching within campus and data center networks.
• Lead proper execution of network changes & updates in accordance with corporate security policies to meet business requirements.
• Responsible for network performance and security monitoring in addition to being able to troubleshoot network-related issues in a logical manner.
• Research, recommend, and establish innovative solutions for proper capacity planning that scale with the business growth.
• Where possible, introduce automation for daily routine administrative tasks.
• Collaborates with all Information Technology disciplines.
• Creates, maintains, and updates documentation with most relevant information.
• Escalation resource during major incidents and outages as needed.
• Perform other special project and duties as assigned.
• Perform problem diagnosis, initiate problem resolution, and provide ongoing life-cycle support for network deployments and upgrades.
• Collaborate with team members to ensure project scoping activities are aligned with architectural objectives.
• Participate and provide input into the continual refinement of processes, policies, and best practices to ensure optimal performance and availability of technologies.
• Continuously develop specialized knowledge and technical subject matter expertise by remaining apprised of industry trends, the direction of emerging technologies, and their potential value to the business.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in computer science or related field; or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum 7-10 years of network design and engineering experience required.
• Strong analytical and customer service abilities.
• Ability to communicate and articulate technical information across various organizational levels.
• Strong thought leadership abilities and a highly innovative problem solver.
• Ability to coach and mentor experienced Network engineering staff.

Preferred Qualifications

• Firewalls - Palo Alto, Cisco ASA
• F5 - Big IP, LTM, GTM, ASM
• DDI, DNS, DHCP, IPAM, NTP
• Infoblox, CloudFlare
• DDoS - Akamai, AWS, Azure, CloudFlare
• Cloud Networking - AWS, Azure
• Automation & scripting
• Routing, Switching
• Network monitoring, NetFlow, capacity management
• Packet capture and analysis - Gigastor, Wireshark

Visa Sponsorship

Applicants must have a valid work authorization that does not now, or in the future, require visa sponsorship for employment in the United States (e.g., H-1B, F-1 CPT, F-1 OPT, TN).

In-Office Collaboration

We are a client-centric, relationship-based business. Working together, in-person, is foundational to how we achieve results. By fostering a culture of face-to-face collaboration, idea sharing, productivity and personal connection, we deliver for our stakeholders - clients, advisors, employees and shareholders. Our employees work in the office at least four (4) days per week, with flexibility to work from home one (1) day per week. Some roles may require additional in-office time or different in-office expectations, and specific requirements will be discussed during the hiring process.

Base Pay Salary

The estimated base salary for this role is $125,000 - $158,000 / year. We have a pay-for-performance compensation philosophy. Your initial total compensation may vary based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and geographical work location. In addition, most of our roles are eligible for variable pay in the form of bonus, commissions, and/or long-