Sr. Network Engineer

Novacore Insurance Services, LLC; Conshohocken (Montgomery County); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Novacore Insurance Services, LLC is seeking a seasoned network architect for a hybrid role based in Conshohocken, PA. You will design and implement the company network, oversee day-to-day operations, and drive secure, scalable connectivity across locations and cloud environments.

You will lead large initiatives with extensive routing experience and vendor management, ensuring high availability and cost-effective IT services for the organization.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of related network architecture, engineering, and management or lead experience.
• Expert knowledge of routing protocols like BGP, OSPF, and EIGRP.
• Significant experience in large dynamic routing environments.
• Experience managing vendors and outsourced offshore resources.
• Minimum of 7 years’ experience contributing to midsize-to-large initiatives with complexity and budgets.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of the new Novacore network.
• Manage day-to-day operational activities of network support, including vendor management.
• Respond to incidents and remediation testing quickly and effectively.
• Manage network services (LAN, SDWAN, MAN, Voice, Video, Wireless, ISP, Zero Trust, EDMZ, Contact Center) with vendors.
• Ensure network availability, reliability, and performance metrics (SLA) are met.
• Oversee changes and modernization across the network environment.
• Coordinate with management for budget planning and business cases.

Skills

Fortinet

Wireless networks

Zero Trust

Azure Networking

BGP/OSPF/EIGRP

Routing protocols

Vendor management

Tools

Fortinet devices

Meraki

SolarWinds

Zscaler

Firewalls

Job description

Hybrid Opportunity

This is a hybrid opportunity, working from the Conshohocken, PA Home Office 2-3 days per week.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of the new Novacore network.
• Manage day-to-day operational activities of network support, including vendor management.
• Respond to all incidents, network or other to be quickly available for remediation testing and troubleshooting.
• Manage network services (including LAN, SDWAN, MAN, Voice, Video, Wireless, ISP, Zero Trust, EDMZ, and Contact Center Technologies) for Novacore in conjunction with vendor(s).
• Support network availability and the introduction of new technology into the network environment.
• Analyze existing operations and make recommendations for improvement and growth of the operating environment.
• Manage physical network assets and re-location services.
• Oversee performance of the network, ensuring management and monitoring is 100%.
• Assist the overall IT organization in performing problem management duties such as identifying reoccurring application and infrastructure incidents from a network perspective, and communicate identified problems to relevant stakeholders.
• Manage direct staff members to help facilitate end users’ ability to perform their work from any location.
• Ensure relevant performance management activities such as measurement of Service Level Agreements are performed.
• Deep familiarity with key technology platforms and how they can impact business scalability.
• Ensure IT capabilities are delivered reliably, sustainably, cost‑effectively and securely.
• Ensure end user computing contributions are delivered with agility based on changing business objectives, goals and strategies.
• Stay current on new and emerging technologies and platforms while providing recommendations for future technologies to be assimilated and introduced within Novacore.
• Always keep end user computing capabilities responding to the needs of the digital business strategy.
• Participate in negotiations or re‑negotiations of contracts with vendors and professional service providers.
• Improve communication and collaboration throughout the organization, allowing technology and systems to be facilitators of collaboration.
• Develop secure stakeholder buy‑in and implement an end user computing vision as Novacore embarks on a digital transformation.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of related network architecture, engineering, and management or lead experience.
• Expert skill level with industry‑leading network hardware and software technologies and architectures including Fortinet, Wireless (Fortinet, Meraki), SolarWinds, Zscaler, firewalls (Fortinet, Azure), Zero Trust, Edge, Cloud Adjacency, Azure Networking, etc.
• Significant experience in large dynamic routing environments.
• Expert knowledge of routing protocols like BGP, OSPF, and EIGRP.
• Previous experience managing vendors and outsourced offshore resources.
• Minimum of 7 years’ experience contributing to the success of a range of midsize‑to‑large initiatives with above‑average levels of complexity and business criticality, building a team‑oriented, collaborative environment, creating business cases and managing budgets.
• Experience managing public internet routing, transport and access.
• Extensive knowledge of network service providers for both public and private line access.
• Experience in facilitating change, including collaboration with management stakeholders.
• Proven internal and external influencing skills at senior and executive management levels.
• Preferably, proven experience or demonstrated capability in leading large, complex and/or transformational initiatives in dynamic environments while taking advantage of digital opportunities to innovate business models and enable digitalization of the business.
• Ability to effectively communicate and instill confidence with peers and all key stakeholders.
• Effective influencing and negotiation skills in an environment where resources may not be in direct control of this role.
• Excellent analytical, strategic conceptual thinking, strategic planning and execution skills.
• Strong business acumen, including industry, domain‑specific knowledge of the enterprise and its business units.
• Expertise in budget planning and financial management.
• Deep understanding of current and emerging technologies and how other enterprises are employing them to drive digital business, with understanding of how it may be applied to Novacore’s enterprise to drive digital business.
• Ability to manage geographically diverse teams and overcome the culture clashes that may arise.
• Ability to drive organizational changes and build capabilities that effectively balance the needs for continuously exploiting capabilities to optimize operational efficiency, while delivering innovative and agile IT solutions that allow the business to explore digital business opportunities.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain digital concepts and technologies to business leaders, and business concepts to the IT workforce.