Senior Network Engineer

$95,300 - $131,200/Yr

Humana - Louisville, KY

Full-time - Senior

Remote - Louisville, KY

5,001-10,000 employees

Insurance Carriers and Related Activities

About the position

The Senior Network Engineer is responsible for designing, analyzing, planning, and modifying network components to support customer communication implementation activities. This role involves providing engineering and operational support for Humana's enterprise network, which spans multiple lines of business. The primary focus is on maintaining a high-quality network infrastructure, managing and troubleshooting various network solutions, and ensuring reliability, scalability, and security.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and operate network solutions (routers, firewalls, switches, cloud networking) in the cloud and on-premise datacenters.
• Monitor and tune network infrastructure to identify and eliminate issues and potential bottlenecks.
• Provide a level of escalation in response to incidents/requests regarding network performance and configuration, including off-hours escalations.
• Maintain network documentation, run-books, diagrams, and network assets in the configuration management database.
• Develop and continually improve guidelines and procedures related to Network management including process and efficiency improvements.

Requirements

• 5 years of experience designing, deploying, maintaining, and improving wired, wireless, and complex High Availability Data Center Networks, Hybrid and Multi cloud Networks.
• Cloud Platform Expertise with in-depth knowledge of AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform cloud services, particularly around networking components such as VPCs, Direct Connect, Peering, and Load Balancers.
• Ability to lead and drive incident-based calls.
• Advanced knowledge and experience with networking technologies (load balancing, VPN, ACL, NAT, DNS, Netflow).
• Advanced knowledge of and experience with networking routing including BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, IP Multicast and MPLS.
• Familiarity with monitoring tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, ThousandEyes, StealthWatch, BigPanda is a plus.
• Strong scripting experience: Ansible, Python, Perl, bash, windows scripts (VBS/PowerShell).
• Experience with Terraform, Istio and Kubernetes and similar are bonuses.
• Certifications such as CCNP Data Center/Routing and Switching.

Nice-to-haves

• Hands-on experience with cloud service providers Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and AWS.
• Familiarity with cloud-native security and network solutions and tools in Azure, AWS and/or Google.
• Knowledge of network performance management solutions to triage and troubleshoot incidents (Splunk, ThousandEyes, Dynatrace).
• Ability to perform, analyze and deduce information from network packet captures using on-premise and cloud solutions.
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university or equivalent work experience.

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision benefits
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• Paid time off
• Company and personal holidays
• Volunteer time off
• Paid parental and caregiver leave
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Life insurance