Senior Network Engineer

Senior Network Engineer, Albuquerque, NM

Build your future at Curia, where our work has the power to save lives 

Curia is a global contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) with over 30 years of experience partnering with pharmaceutical and biotech companies to provide life-saving treatments to patients. At Curia, we are on a mission to advance our customers’ therapies from curiosity to cure and ultimately to improve patients’ lives.

We proudly offer

• Generous benefit options (eligible first day of employment) 
• Paid training, vacation and holidays (vacation accrual begins on first day of employment)
• Career advancement opportunities 
• Education reimbursement
• 401K program with matching contributions
• Learning platform
• And more! 

Summary:

The Senior Network Engineer is responsible for the design, implementation, and daily management of the Albuquerque Curia network infrastructure, ensuring secure, reliable, and compliant operations that support regulated pharmaceutical manufacturing activities. The position plays a critical role in maintaining system availability, data integrity, and information security in alignment with regulatory requirements such as FDA, DEA, Health Canada, and EU guidelines.  Additionally, this role provides advanced troubleshooting, technical expertise, and mentorship to junior engineers and IT support staff. Collaboration with cross-functional IT groups, Quality, and business units is required to ensure network services meet operational needs while supporting scalability, standardization, and business continuity.

The Senior Network Engineer is expected to demonstrate strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with deep knowledge of network administration, architecture, and cybersecurity.  The position also champions continuous improvement initiatives, promotes compliance with GMP and data protection standards, and drives the adoption of best practices across the organization

 Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Network and Infrastructure Management: 
• Design, implement, and maintain network, voice and infrastructure systems, including LAN, WAN, WiFi, PBX, and data center infrastructure.
• Oversee daily operations, ensuring high availability, performance, and security.
• Provide expert level troubleshooting skills across network and infrastructure systems, aligning with business objectives.
• Perform hardware, operating system, security, and application updates/patches, for network and system components as well as operating system hardening.
• Plan and implement capacity upgrades and expansions.
• Ensure compliance with security policies, industry standards, and regulatory requirements. 
• Exhibit safety awareness and safe work practices
• Technical Operations
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex network and infrastructure issues, minimizing downtime and impact to business operations.
• Manage vendor relationships, ensuring contracts, support, and services meet business needs.
• Participate in an on-call rotation schedule and plan and manage afterhours infrastructure interventions. setup/assist with IT hardware deployment/troubleshooting for other teams (network/storage equipment)
• Project Management
• Design and lead network and infrastructure projects, including planning, execution, and delivery.
• Manage project timelines, budgets, and resources, ensuring projects meet business objectives and are delivered on time.
• Ensure projects meet business objectives and are delivered on time.
• Collaboration and Communication
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with internal Technology and Business stakeholders.
• Coordinate with IT teams on platform implementation or changes that impact IT services or end-users.
• Provide regular reports on system performance, capacity, and security, and design and deliver formal and informal presentations on technical topics.
• Design and deliver formal and informal presentations on technical topics.
• Financial Management
• Oversee infrastructure operational budget, ensuring projects stay within capital budget.
• Provide insight into needs to meet current strategy for budget planning purposes.
• Continuous Improvement Planning
• Drive continuous improvement and IT best practices into all areas of process, metrics, and performance within the infrastructure team.
• Research and review new and emerging technologies that could be implemented within infrastructure, developing ROI and implementation plans.
• Read/interpret SOPs to ensure compliance
• Maintain up to date trainings
• Other duties as assigned

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