Senior Network Engineer (Remote)

WHO WE ARE

Supported by more than 4,000 employees in nearly 100 locations across the United States, we provide a full continuum of engineering and consulting services, including design, planning, architectural, environmental, construction and program management. Our clients include U.S. federal, state and municipal governments, foreign allied governments, and a wide range of commercial clients. Michael Baker is committed to delivering a standard of excellence that fosters a culture of innovation, collaboration and technological advancement to help solve our clients' complex challenges.

JOB DESCRIPTION

The role of the Network Engineer IV is to lead, strategize, design, build and maintain a highly secure, resilient, and performance-oriented enterprise network for the large array of Michael Baker locations across within the US and Globally. This position can also lead teams and manage staff responsible for the strategy, design, build and maintenance of all networking systems and all aspects of user roles and groups as well as asset management.  This role will require a deep understanding of LAN/WAN/SDWAN technologies, wireless, cloud networking technologies (primarily Azure) and significant utilization and specialization in Fortinet technologies to join our growing IT team.   A strong background in network security, routing, and performance optimization is required. 

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Provide engineering expertise and mentorship for the design, development, implementation, operations, and sustainment of network services that improve overall system performance and availability.
• Lead the research, analysis, solution design and implementation for the future modernization of existing network solutions and infrastructures.
• Drive strategic technological innovation, demonstrating an in-depth knowledge in all networking related areas for the complex operations of all networking services.
• Responsible for the Operations and Maintenance of all network services for the company.
• Provide mentorship to the network team to perform monitoring, installation, modification, testing, and servicing of network services for the company.
• Participate as part of the Team of the Disaster Recovery and Resilience implementation.
• Establish and maintain metrics and program control mechanisms to track program progress as well as the current state of network architecture.
• Maintain expertise on security trends through training, research and development to mitigate potential security exposures.
• Collaborate with Information Security and ITS to establish an effective approach by bringing to bear an audit process ultimately building out a continuous monitoring construct.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Mentor network team, ITS staff, and program members to facilitate growth, internal career development, and overall happiness and retention objectives.
• Participate as senior member, during hiring process, working towards building a high performing network team across Information Technology.

Experience

• 10-15+ years of design, development, implementation and implementing polices of network services.
• 5+ Years leading a network team.
• 8+ years of related experience in the implementation, management and maintenance of information technology infrastructure and IT systems including cloud architectures, business systems, server technologies, and communication technologies, LANs, WANs, telephone, voice, video and data communication systems.
• Practical experience with Fortigate firewalls and SD-Wan technologies is a plus. Understanding of networking concepts (e.g., VPN, DHCP, DNS, IPSEC, TCPIP, etc.).
• Strong knowledge and understanding of several network vendor platforms including Fortinet.
• Experience in service delivery management areas such as, procurement, annual budget forecasting, deployment, maintenance, monitoring, health and performance reporting.
• Strong working knowledge information security concepts, terms, standard practices, and regulatory compliance requirements such as CMMC, DFARS/FARS, GDPR, Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), NIST 800-53, 800-171, and CIS Benchmarks, etc.

Education

• BS Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or other related field (or equivalent work experience).
• Master’s degree or equivalent experience preferred.

Minimum Qualifications, Skills and Abilities

• 10-15 years of professional experience.
• Pro-active, strategic approach to problem solving.
• Strong analytical, interpersonal, and communication skills.
• Display proficiency in working alongside a variety of internal and exte