Strategic Principal Network Engineer - Hybrid Cisco & Cloud

Children's Wisconsin; Milwaukee (WI); Hybride; USD 130 000 - 175 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Children's Wisconsin is seeking a Principal Network Engineer to lead design, deployment, and optimization of our enterprise Cisco networks across clinical and business environments. You will guide automation initiatives, mentor engineers, and drive secure, scalable connectivity including Azure and AWS integrations.

The role focuses on advanced troubleshooting, network reliability, and collaboration with Infrastructure, Cloud Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, and Information Security to

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in information technology, computer science, engineering, or a related field required or relevant experience
• 7+ years of progressively responsible network engineering experience, including advanced design, implementation, and troubleshooting in a complex enterprise environment
• 7+ years experience serving as a technical escalation resource, leading significant network changes, and mentoring or providing technical guidance to other engineers
• 7+ years Advanced hands on experience with Cisco enterprise routing and switching, IP addressing, routing protocols, network segmentation, high availability, Cisco ACI and datacenter networking technologies
• 7+ years Advanced working knowledge of wireless networking, VPN connectivity, DNS and DHCP dependencies, and network security principles
• 7+ years Practical experience developing and maintaining network automation used in an operational environment through infrastructure as code, configuration management, scripting, or APIs
• 7+ years Experience with one or more tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Python, or comparable technologies, including version control, testing, and documentation preferred
• 7+ years Experience following controlled change practices and coordinating across technical teams

Responsabilités

• Network engineering. Designs, implements, and maintains enterprise Cisco network services. Evaluates routing, switching, segmentation, redundancy, capacity, and performance across clinical and business locations.
• Technical leadership and mentoring. Provides hands on technical guidance to network engineers. Reviews designs, configurations, automation code, and implementation plans; explains tradeoffs and develops team capability through pairing, troubleshooting, and knowledge sharing.
• Advanced troubleshooting. Leads technical diagnosis of complex network incidents and recurring problems. Uses packet captures, telemetry, logs, and routing analysis to isolate causes across network, application, security, and cloud boundaries.
• Network automation. Develops and maintains reusable automation for provisioning, configuration, validation, inventory, and operational tasks. Uses infrastructure as code, scripting, and APIs with tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and Python as appropriate.
• Cloud and hybrid connectivity. Develops and applies Azure and AWS networking skills to design and support connectivity between CW locations and cloud environments.
• Change and delivery discipline. Leads assigned network implementations, upgrades, and migrations. Prepares implementation procedures, impact assessments, test plans, rollback steps, and support handoffs.
• Standards and lifecycle planning. Maintains network diagrams, configuration standards, operating procedures, and accurate inventory and configuration records.
• Security and resilience. Implements approved network safeguards and addresses assigned vulnerabilities in coordination with Information Security.
• Cross team and vendor coordination. Works with carriers, vendors, and internal teams to resolve technical issues and deliver network changes.

Connaissances

Cisco networking

Network design

Mentoring

Automation

Cloud networking

Formation

Bachelor's Degree in IT/CS/Engineering

Outils

Terraform

Ansible

Python

Azure

AWS

Description du poste

Children's Wisconsin is seeking a Principal Network Engineer to lead design, deployment, and optimization of our enterprise Cisco networks across clinical and business environments. You will guide automation initiatives, mentor engineers, and drive secure, scalable connectivity including Azure and AWS integrations.

The role focuses on advanced troubleshooting, network reliability, and collaboration with Infrastructure, Cloud Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, and Information Security to