Role Summary
The Senior Network Engineer is responsible for designing, standardizing, and supporting enterprise network solutions across global manufacturing and corporate locations. This role provides technical leadership and governance for LAN, WAN, SD‑WAN, and Wireless services, ensuring secure, scalable, and highly available connectivity aligned with enterprise standards.
The position works closely with global IT teams, project managers, vendors to deliver infrastructure refreshes, site deployments, and network transformation initiatives by maintaining the standard documentation and technical designs.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and govern enterprise LAN, WAN, SD‑WAN, and Wireless architectures for global sites
- Develop and maintain standard network designs, templates, and Bills of Materials (BoMs)
- Subject Matter Expert skills leading SD‑WAN and global connectivity services, including circuit upgrades, site activations, and vendor coordination
- Support site lifecycle activities: new sites, upgrades, consolidations, and site closures
- Design and approve segmented and isolated network environments (e.g., IoT, OT, POC, innovation labs)
- Provide technical oversight for wireless solutions, including industrial and manufacturing environments
- Review and validate vendor designs, implementation plans, and cutover strategies
- Collaborate with PMOs, regional IT, and system integrators to ensure successful delivery
- Produce clear technical documentation, approvals, and executive-ready summaries
- Ensure compliance with enterprise security, audit, and change-management standards by working closely with Information Security teams
Required Qualifications
Experience
10+ years of experience in enterprise network engineering or design
Experience supporting large, global, multi-region environments
Proven ability to operate as a technical lead or subject-matter expert
Technical Skills
Strong expertise in
LAN & Switching
WAN / SD‑WAN architectures
Wireless (enterprise and/or industrial Wi‑Fi)
Datacenter LAN Technologies (VX-LAN)
Experience working with Cisco Nexus and Catalyst devices, Cisco wireless, Aryaka SD-WAN, Zscaler and Palo Alto security
Professional Skills
Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
High ownership, documentation discipline, and attention to standards
The ability to interface across the organization with other teams, such as Business operations, System Delivery, Functional Delivery, Application Development, VMO, Infrastructure Operations and Service Delivery, auditors, Legal, Information security personnel etc.
Preferred Qualifications
- Cisco certifications (CCNP and greater)
- Experience in manufacturing or OT network environments
- Exposure to cloud connectivity (AWS/Azure)
- Exposure to Telephony Solutions (MS Teams, Cisco and cloud-based contact center solutions)
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