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Principal Network Engineer
DLS Discovery, LLCPrincipal Network Engineer at KLDiscovery ensuring security and performance of global network infrastructure. Leading complex initiatives and mentoring networking team with on-call responsibilities.
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- The Principal Network Engineer provides the most authoritative network domain input into Enterprise Architecture and is accountable for ensuring the Networking team designs and operates in full conformance with those standards.
- This role carries ultimate technical accountability for the availability, security, and performance of KLDiscovery's global network infrastructure, and owns the strategic trajectory of the team's journey toward zero unplanned network downtime.
- This role leads the most complex network initiatives, serves as the organization's senior escalation point, and provides mentoring and technical direction across the Networking team.
- This role participates in a 24x7x365 on-call rotation.
Requirements
What you’ll need- 8+ years in enterprise network engineering with demonstrated architectural ownership across global WAN, LAN, firewall, SDWAN, and datacenter environments in a high-availability production context; prior principal or senior technical lead individual contributor experience required
- Expert-level knowledge of WAN protocols: MPLS, OSPF, BGP, SD-WAN, PTPs
- Expert-level knowledge of Layer 2 technologies: STP, VPC, MLAG, 802.3ad, ARP
- Expert-level knowledge of load balancing, NAT/PAT, ACLs, and traffic shaping
- Demonstrated experience designing and owning global enterprise network infrastructure with availability and resilience as primary design criteria across WAN, LAN, firewall, wireless, SDWAN, and datacenter domains
- Expert-level network security design: zero-trust principles, segmentation strategy, firewall policy frameworks, and VPN architecture
- Demonstrated hardware and software lifecycle management discipline: asset inventory, end of life tracking, and proactive remediation planning
- Expert level troubleshooting and analytical thinking: ability to rapidly isolate root cause across complex multi-domain network environments using structured diagnostic methods and tool-driven analysis
- Demonstrated network capacity planning experience: bandwidth modeling, growth forecasting, and infrastructure constraint identification across enterprise WAN, LAN and datacenter environments
- Experience supporting 24x7 global production environments; on-call availability required
Benefits
Comp & perks- Generous paid time off, that offers options to help employees maintain a work-life balance, such as vacation, paid sick leave, parental leave, paid jury leave and more!
- Comprehensive health, dental, vision and supplemental benefits package that includes life insurance, short- and long-term disability, to promote the health of our employees.
- A focus on continuous professional development through various training and education reimbursement programs.
- Free Employee Assistance Program (EAP) because we all could use a little help and support every now and then.
- 401(k) with employer match to help our employees achieve financial success.
- KLD supports the communities where our employees live and offers a paid community service day for employees to volunteer with what resonates with them.
- Free, fun, interactive and incentivized global wellness program that promotes the wellbeing of our employees plus offers a wide range of perks and discounts!
- This position is 90% remote, and we offer a high-performance laptop computer, options for wireless headset or external speaker, up to two 24" 2K monitors, and a mobile phone for business use.
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Hard Skills & Tools
enterprise network engineeringWAN protocolsMPLSOSPFBGPSD-WANLayer 2 technologiesSTPVPCload balancing
Soft Skills
mentoringtechnical directionanalytical thinkingtroubleshootingcapacity planning