Senior Network Engineer

Convene Hospitality Group (CHG) operates a global portfolio of lifestyle brands focused on creating places and experiences that bring people together. The company designs, develops, and operates hospitality-driven destinations to host gatherings of all kinds, ranging from small corporate meetings to immersive brand activations and beyond. We love bringing people together in person, and that passion for great experiences extends to our employees as well. If you're interested in creating inspiring moments of connection, consider joining our team.

Senior Network Engineer, NYC

We are seeking a seasoned Senior Network Engineer to join our Global Infrastructure  team at Convene Hospitality Group in a fast-paced, agile environment. In this role, you'll tackle a broad range of business initiatives, leveraging a wide set of technologies and tools. You'll be instrumental in supporting our internal CHG team, overseeing network and security infrastructure across our venue properties, multiple cloud environments, and a diverse range of networking technologies. As a member of our world-class team covering both the US and UK markets, you'll also have the exciting opportunity to participate in global initiatives, alongside excellent personal development opportunities.

***Candidates must be based in the NYC tri-state area. This is a full-time, NYC-based position with remote flexibility and onsite attendance as needed.

What You’ll Do:

The Senior Network Engineer will work on a broad range of business initiatives and objectives for new and current locations. The ideal candidate will be responsible for leveraging a wide range of technologies and tools to build intelligent infrastructure systems, scalable automation, and managing our centralized networking, server and cloud based systems. The candidate will be focused and driven to continuously improve our network delivery, monitoring systems, and automation initiatives.

In this role, you will:

• Design, develop, build, and maintain network architecture for a multi-tenant enterprise that is both corporate and customer facing
• Partner with both internal and external teams to automate provisioning for new clients and other basic tasks
• Assist in projects that lead to network improvements including network equipment code upgrades, network hardware upgrades, and network/server application software improvements.
• Work with various vendors and service providers to ensure the production environment is always operating at peak proficiency
• Build, maintain, and improve a network automation platform
• Build, maintain, and improve cloud based and server based compute platforms using Virtualization, K8s, and containerization
• Maintain and improve on an AWS based Cloud Networking environment
• Actively monitor network health across locations, identify and propose solutions to problems before they occur
• Participate in day to day network operations, when needed as well as an on-call rotation
• Innovate, never accept the status quo
• Explore new technologies and have fun finding the best tools
• Identify and implement process improvements

What We Look For:

• 10+ years of hands-on experience with deploying, maintaining, and managing enterprise-scale networks.
• A deep understanding  and knowledge of core networking concepts. Experience with layer 2 and 3 routing protocols, multi-site VPN, WiFi networks, and cloud networking  typically used in any enterprise WAN architecture.
• A technical background in a hosted services environment including infrastructure networks, hardware, software and telecommunications
• Hands-on experience in Juniper JunOS, including SRX, EX, and QFX platforms. Hands-on experience with Cisco IOS and ASA is a plus. 
• Familiarity with WiFi based (802.11ax/802.11be) architecture, technologies, and day to day operations
• Proficiency in IGMP, PIM, and other multicast based protocols
• Ability to develop, deploy, and maintain wide area network architecture through a varying degree of technologies such as SD-WAN, MPLS, VPLS, and L2L VPN tunnels
• Experience using automated network monitoring tools, including building and maintaining a full network automation platform using tools such as Ansible.
• Previous experience in troubleshooting Wireless (WiFi) networks, sufficient knowledge of latest WiFi technologies & IEEE 802.11 standards along with RADIUS and AAA accounting
• Hands on linux server-based operating system experience (RHEL based ideal) 
• Excellent attention to detail, testing and documentation
• Well-versed in Network design concepts that include WAN Architecture, network security engineering principles and system design
• Experienced in building and maint