Senior Network Engineer

About This Role

Who We Are:  

• CAE Vision: Our vision is to be the worldwide partner of choice in defense and security, and civil aviation by revolutionizing our customers’ training and critical operations with digitally immersive solutions to elevate safety, efficiency and readiness.  

• CAE Defense & Security Mission: CAE's Defense and Security business unit focuses on helping prepare military customers to develop and maintain the highest levels of mission readiness.  

• CAE Values: Empowerment, Innovation, Excellence, Integrity and OneCAE make us who we are and we strive to make a difference in the world while helping each other succeed.  

What We Have to Offer:  

• Comprehensive and competitive benefits package and flexibility that promotes work-life balance  

• A work environment where all employees are valued, respected and safe  

• Freedom to succeed by enabling team members to deliver, take initiatives and make decisions  

• Recognition, professional development, advancement and having fun! 

Summary   

The Sr. Network Engineer participates in all aspects of design, analysis, implementation and support of network platforms, software or other solutions to ensure the enterprise network complies with company and user requirements.  Additionally, this individual will work with the management team to identify gaps in knowledge/experience within the team to ensure optimal network operations in support of business continuity. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities   

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.   

• Responsible for architecture design, security, integration and management of network systems 

• Provide ongoing daily support and optimization of enterprise data network systems 

• Proficiency in multivendor networking environments in configuration of SD-WAN, firewalls, IPS/IDS systems, VPN, Routers, Wireless, and Switches (Cisco, Arista, Aruba, etc.) 

• Proactively identify needs for improvements, capacity changes and upgrades. Plan and implement upgrades and patches 

• Maintain proper change management documentation for all hardware and software modifications 

• Collaborate with IT team, IT management, and Business Unit leaders to define and manage the IT Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) and Business Continuity Plan (BCP) for enterprise platforms and systems 

• Troubleshoot, analyze and resolve faults in the operational network for ongoing day-to-day activities and serve as an escalation SME during outages 

• Troubleshoot, analyze, and resolve faults in the enterprise network for day-to-day activities and serve as an escalation point during enterprise outages 

• Support network compliance and risk management activities 

• Proactively collect, analyze, and report on network health and other statistics 

• Evaluates and recommend new and emerging technologies in the networking domain 

• Collaborate with IT management and IT purchasing team in support of negotiation and management of carrier services, software, and hardware maintenance contracts 

• Work with IT team and IT management to evaluate and plan for hardware/software replacement and growth 

• Serve as a technical lead/mentor for junior network engineers as part of team-based activities 

• Particip