Sr. Network Engineer

Post Holdings, Inc.; Lakeville (MN); Hybrid; USD 106,000 - 157,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work schedule

Full benefits

Job summary

Post Consumer Brands in Lakeville, MN is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to design, secure, and support our enterprise network across offices, manufacturing sites, data centers, and cloud environments. You will implement LAN/WAN, VPN, SD-WAN, and Zero Trust strategies, partner with security and IT teams, and drive modernization while maintaining high availability and cost efficiency.

Join a collaborative team delivering reliable connectivity, supporting modernization efforts, and ensuring

Qualifications

• 7+ years of enterprise network engineering or network administration experience.
• Strong knowledge of segmentation, routing and switching, wireless networking, and network security concepts.
• Experience supporting enterprise switches, routers, wireless networks, and firewalls.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot enterprise LAN, WAN, wireless, internet, VPN, and cloud connectivity.
• Support routers, switches, wireless infrastructure, firewalls, SD-WAN, secure web access, private application access, and Zero Trust Network Access technologies.
• Maintain network availability, performance, capacity, and resiliency across corporate, manufacturing, warehouse, data center, cloud, and third-party environments.
• Resolve complex routing, switching, latency, DNS, DHCP, wireless, firewall, and application communication issues; provide escalation support during incidents and outages.
• Implement network security controls with cybersecurity partners, including segmentation, firewall policies, secure remote connectivity, vulnerability remediation, and audit support.
• Develop scalable network designs, reference architectures, configuration standards, and technical recommendations based on security, supportability, performance, and cost.
• Partner with infrastructure, cloud, security, application, and manufacturing/OT teams on hybrid connectivity, site integrations, acquisitions, expansions, and technology refreshes.
• Use monitoring, analytics, telemetry, configuration management, and automation to improve reliability, consistency, reporting, deployment speed, and lifecycle management.
• Maintain network diagrams, inventories, configurations, IP addressing, circuits, operating procedures, and troubleshooting documentation.
• Coordinate with telecommunications carriers, managed service providers, hardware vendors, and project teams from planning and testing through transition to operations.

Skills

LAN/WAN design

Routing & Switching

Firewall security

Wireless networking

VPN/Remote access

Cloud networking

SD-WAN

Zero Trust

Automation (PowerShell/Python)

Documentation

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS/Engineering

Tools

Cisco Meraki

Palo Alto

Zscaler

Azure networking

Monitoring tools

Job description

Business Unit Overview

Headquartered in Lakeville, Minn., Post Consumer Brands, a business unit of Post Holdings, Inc., is dedicated to providing people and their pets with delicious food choices for every taste and budget. The company's portfolio includes beloved brands such as Honey Bunches of Oats™, PEBBLES™, Grape-Nuts™ and Malt-O-Meal™ cereal and Peter Pan™ peanut butter, as well as Rachael Ray® Nutrish™, Kibbles 'n Bits™ and 9Lives™ dog and cat food. Post also provides private label solutions to customers in pet food, cereal, nut butters and granola. As a company committed to high standards of quality and to our values, we are driven by one idea: To make lives better by making delicious food accessible for all. For more information about our brands, visit www.postconsumerbrands.com and follow us on LinkedIn or Facebook for the latest news.

Location Description

Post Consumer Brands corporate headquarters in Lakeville, Minnesota, is about 20 miles south of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Lakeville has all the benefits of smaller town living with access to everything a large metropolitan area has to offer. Join more than 400 team members collaborating on the two-building campus to help put breakfast on the tables of millions of consumers in North America.

Responsibilities

Senior Network Engineer

As a Senior Network Engineer, you will design, build, secure, and support the enterprise network services that connect corporate offices, manufacturing facilities, distribution locations, data centers, cloud platforms, and third-party environments. You will bring hands-on expertise across LAN, WAN, wireless, firewalls, secure remote access, internet connectivity, cloud networking, and network monitoring.

Working across infrastructure, cybersecurity, applications, manufacturing/OT, and business teams, you will help deliver reliable, resilient, and secure connectivity. Your work will reduce recurring issues, strengthen network visibility, and support modernization, cloud adoption, site integrations, and technology refresh initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot enterprise LAN, WAN, wireless, internet, VPN, and cloud connectivity.
• Support routers, switches, wireless infrastructure, firewalls, SD-WAN, secure web access, private application access, and Zero Trust Network Access technologies.
• Maintain network availability, performance, capacity, and resiliency across corporate, manufacturing, warehouse, data center, cloud, and third-party environments.
• Resolve complex routing, switching, latency, DNS, DHCP, wireless, firewall, and application communication issues; provide escalation support during incidents and outages.
• Implement network security controls with cybersecurity partners, including segmentation, firewall policies, secure remote connectivity, vulnerability remediation, and audit support.
• Develop scalable network designs, reference architectures, configuration standards, and technical recommendations based on security, supportability, performance, and cost.
• Partner with infrastructure, cloud, security, application, and manufacturing/OT teams on hybrid connectivity, site integrations, acquisitions, expansions, and technology refreshes.
• Use monitoring, analytics, telemetry, configuration management, and automation to improve reliability, consistency, reporting, deployment speed, and lifecycle management.
• Maintain network diagrams, inventories, configurations, IP addressing, circuits, operating procedures, and troubleshooting documentation.
• Coordinate with telecommunications carriers, managed service providers, hardware vendors, and project teams from planning and testing through transition to operations.

Why You'll Love This Role

• Own high-impact network solutions that connect a diverse enterprise spanning offices, plants, distribution sites, data centers, and cloud environments.
• Help shape secure, modern connectivity through cloud networking, SD-WAN, Zero Trust, segmentation, automation, and observability.
• Work across technical and business teams where your expertise can improve reliability, simplify operations, and influence enterprise standards.
• Balance hands-on engineering and troubleshooting with architecture, modernization, and continuous improvement work.

Qualifications

Location Requirements:

• Hybrid (2-3 days/week) at our Corporate Headquarters in Lakeville, MN.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of enterprise network engineering or network administration experience.
• Strong knowledge of network segmentation, routing and switching, wireless networking, and network security concepts.
• Experience supporting enterprise switches, routers, wireless networks, and firewalls.
• Experience troubleshooting complex network, security, and application connectivity issues.
• Understanding of high availability, redundancy, disaster recovery, network resiliency, and capacity planning.
• Strong technical documentation and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Cisco networking technologies, Cisco Meraki, Palo Alto Networks firewalls, Zscaler, SD-WAN, Zero Trust networking, and Microsoft Azure networking.
• Experience with network monitoring and performance-management platforms, firewall policy management, or IT/OT segmentation in manufacturing environments.
• Experience automating network tasks with PowerShell, Python, APIs, infrastructure-as-code, or configuration-management tools.
• Relevant certifications such as CCNA, CCNP, Palo Alto Networks, Zscaler, Microsoft Azure, or equivalent.

Success in This Role

• Approaches complex problems with strong analysis, structured troubleshooting, sound judgment, and a security-first mindset.
• Takes ownership, manages competing priorities, and follows through on incidents, projects, documentation, and continuous-improvement opportunities.
• Builds effective partnerships across infrastructure, cybersecurity, applications, manufacturing/OT, vendors, and business teams.
• Communicates technical concepts clearly to technical and nontechnical audiences and adapts as networking technologies evolve.

Ready to Make an Impact?

Bring your network engineering expertise to complex, business-critical environments where secure, reliable connectivity matters every day. Apply to help strengthen the platforms, standards, and partnerships that keep Post Consumer Brands connected and moving forward.

The pay range for this position is $106,019 - $156,909 per year.