Senior Network Engineer

Experity

Senior Network Engineer at Experity designing and securing cloud and data center networks. Optimize mission-critical systems to enhance performance and reliability for on-demand healthcare solutions.

Posted 4/25/2026full-timeElk Grove Village • Illinois • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $107,750 - $141,675 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AnsibleCloudFirewallsITSMJenkinsPythonSwitchingTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Provide rotational off-hours support, maintenance, and upgrades.
Architect, design, and operate secure, highly available, and scalable network infrastructures across enterprise, data center, and cloud environments.
Own and evolve hybrid and multi-cloud networking architectures, including segmentation, transit routing, private connectivity, and interconnect strategies.
Design and maintain layer 2–layer 7 networking, including routing, switching, firewalling, load balancing, and traffic optimization.
Engineer and operate dynamic routing architectures using protocols such as BGP, OSPF, EVPN, VXLAN, and VRFs.
Embed security-first principles into all designs, including zero-trust networking, defense-in-depth, encryption, segmentation, and policy enforcement.
Proactively identify architectural, operational, and security gaps, and present clearly documented solution proposals with trade-off analysis.
Implement and maintain network automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Python, and CI/CD pipelines.
Integrate advanced monitoring, telemetry, and AI-assisted tooling to enable proactive detection, troubleshooting, and optimization.
Perform advanced installation, maintenance, and lifecycle management of routers, switches, firewalls, and load-balancing platforms.
Design and support data center networking environments, including redundancy, power-aware design, and fault-tolerant architectures.
Lead troubleshooting of complex network and infrastructure incidents, performing root cause analysis and corrective action planning.
Collaborate closely with cloud, platform, security, and application teams to deliver end-to-end infrastructure solutions.
Maintain accurate network documentation, configuration standards, and backup procedures.
Participate in rotational on-call support, maintenance windows, and infrastructure upgrades.
Research emerging technologies and recommend improvements to advance reliability, security, and scalability.
Provide technical mentorship and guidance to other infrastructure team members.

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ years of progressive experience in network engineering within enterprise, data center, or cloud environments.
Solid understanding of ITSM concepts.
Advanced expertise in dynamic routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, EVPN).
Data center networking (VXLAN, spine-leaf architectures, VRFs).
Network security platforms and policy design HIPAA Awareness and compliance.
Experience designing and operating high-availability and low-latency networks.
Strong background in network security, compliance, and risk management.
Advanced Understanding of Network Automation Ideal (Ansible, Jenkins).
Strong understanding of network observability, monitoring, and performance analytics.
Bachelors Degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Comprehensive coverage starts first day of employment and includes Medical, Dental/Orthodontia, and Vision.
All Team Members are eligible for synthetic ownership in Experity upon one year of employment with real financial rewards when the company is successful!
This robust program includes counseling, legal resolution, financial education, pet adoption assistance, identity theft and fraud resolution, and so much more.
Experity is committed to helping team members face the demands of juggling work, family and life-related issues by offering flexible work scheduling to manage your work-life balance.
Experity offers a generous PTO plan and increases with milestones to ensure our Team Members have time to recharge, relax, and spend time with loved ones.
Experity maintains a learning program foundation for the company that allows Team Members to explore their potential and achieve their career goals.
We bring our Team Members together when we can to strengthen the team, build relationships, and have fun! We even have a family company picnic and a holiday party.
Competitive pay, quarterly bonuses and a 401(k) retirement plan with an employer match to help you save for your future and ensure that you can retire with financial security.

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Hard Skills & Tools

network engineeringdynamic routing protocolsBGPOSPFEVPNVXLANVRFsnetwork automationInfrastructure as Codenetwork security

Soft Skills

technical mentorshipcollaborationproblem-solvingcommunicationroot cause analysisdocumentationproactive identificationtrade-off analysisguidanceleadership

Certifications

Bachelors DegreeHIPAA Awareness