Senior Network Engineer, Dallas

About the position

Sixth Street’s Workplace Technology team is looking for a talented Senior Network Engineer interested in growing their career in a small, fast-moving technical team with big goals. The successful candidate will need to be comfortable leading on multiple fronts at a time: building our physical office network infrastructure, scaling our network monitoring capabilities worldwide, troubleshooting network issues on our various endpoints and working with vendors and key stakeholders to keep our network costs under control. Candidates for this role are required to be highly organized, communicative and confident in their context switching capabilities. We value the ability to focus and deeply engage on network-related topics. Being a thought leader and playing an architect-level role on network questions will be expected while also operating our physical network on a day-to-day basis. When things get challenging, a successful Senior Network Engineer at Sixth Street will collaborate with the entire Infrastructure and Cybersecurity teams, and will display leadership with all individual contributors involved in Sixth Street’s network components and software dependencies.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates strong network architecture experience.
• Accountable for our physical office networks, ensuring constant management, performance monitoring, patching, and timely responses to issues.
• Assist with network-level troubleshooting in collaboration with the Cybersecurity team.
• Collaborates and interacts with all Engineering teams to investigate, diagnose, and resolve network-related problems.
• Drive investigations from beginning to end and communicate outcomes to leadership.

Requirements

• Proven, expert-level experience with the Cisco Meraki ecosystem.
• Vendor management in the network space.
• Familiarity with public cloud networking.
• Strong knowledge of fundamental network concepts.
• At least ten years of proven experience in Network Engineering.
• Experienced at communicating tasks, status, and risks to leadership and key stakeholders.
• Expert in the design and implementation of new physical networks based on clear requirements.
• Understanding of modern application architectures.
• Familiarity with the Linux ecosystem and toolset.
• Familiarity with the Microsoft/macOS ecosystem and toolset.
• Hands-on experience with common IT management and communication tools.
• Strong verbal and written communication abilities.

Nice-to-haves

• Comfortable with remote work using tools such as Outlook, Zoom, Slack, and Box.
• Passionate about expanding into modern topics such as public cloud networking and Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Create and maintain documentation and team runbooks.
• Available for after hours and weekend support if needed for changes and incidents.
• Available to travel about 20% of the time.