Senior Network Engineer

Entrust - Denver, CO

Full-time - Senior

Denver, CO

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Senior Network Engineer at Entrust is responsible for developing and maintaining secure and functional networks while mentoring a team of engineers. This role involves providing high-level technical guidance, troubleshooting, and optimizing network performance to ensure a stable working environment. The ideal candidate should possess strong problem-solving skills and a thorough understanding of network administration and architecture, with a passion for security and data protection.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement functional network infrastructure and systems using correct network diagrams and documentation
• Analyze and confirm the information demands and functional requirements in collaboration with internal and external customers
• Adopt network security measures after organizing, planning, and safeguarding data, software, and hardware
• Monitor network performance to identify necessary adjustments and improvements
• Cooperate with technology suppliers to offer business-focused solutions
• Provide technical leadership to teams working on deployment and support
• Ensure the stability of the working environment before, during, and after system updates
• Establish and maintain strong cross-functional working connections with corporate and local teams
• Resolve issues escalated by lower support tiers and provide support for those tiers as needed
• Configure firewalls, routing, and switching to maximize network security and efficiency
• Utilize online resources and documentation to gain knowledge about new or unfamiliar technology
• Collaborate with network architects to design and implement functional company networks
• Install and configure networking hardware
• Create and implement network security measures
• Mentor and guide junior Network Engineering staff
• Conduct regular network performance tests
• Delegate networking maintenance tasks to junior staff
• Deal with escalated network support issues
• Draw up network status reports

Requirements

• College or University Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related discipline or equivalent combination of education and work experience
• 8+ years of High Availability, High Security, Internet Data Center Experience
• 2+ years of public cloud experience preferred but not required
• Experience with automation and deployment frameworks to deploy network services
• Documentation skills and experience
• Design and deployment experience with technologies such as F5, Palo Alto, Windows Server, VMWare, SD Wan, Cloudflare ZTNA, Network Virtualization
• Must be able to lawfully work within the US and have unrestricted work authorization for US

Nice-to-haves

• Strong organization skills and detail-oriented
• Excellent problem solving skills
• Knowledge of ITSM/ITIL
• Project coordination and management experience
• Experience with NAC, NSXT, VeloCloud, Fortinet Solutions