Senior Network Engineer

Overview

Banner Life Insurance Company leads with heart and ambition, transforming purpose into progress. Our people drive our success, and we strive to be better for our customers, clients, and communities. We offer career development, comprehensive benefits, and programs to support personal and professional growth.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain enterprise network standards, reference architectures, and engineering guardrails aligned to future-state architecture.
• Establish “what good looks like” for network design, security, and performance across the organization.
• Design and evolve network platforms to support business growth, increased digital traffic, and future scalability demands, including proactive capacity and performance planning.
• Anticipate future business and technology needs and build network capabilities ahead of demand.
• Lead network transformation initiatives including cloud-native networking, zero trust architecture, SD-WAN evolution, and legacy network decommissioning.
• Provide engineering leadership and support to managed service partners responsible for network operations (RUN), ensuring adherence to standards, performance expectations, and continuous improvement.
• Reduce operational dependency through automation, design simplification, and platform standardization.
• Treat network capabilities as enterprise platforms, enabling reusable, scalable, and standardized connectivity services across applications and business units.
• Act as the domain authority for enterprise network engineering and a key contributor to infrastructure strategy and roadmap.
• Lead hybrid cloud networking design including Azure hub-and-spoke connectivity, routing, and segmentation.
• Partner with Product, Application Engineering, Data, and Cyber teams to deliver integrated, secure, and high-performing end-to-end solutions.
• Provide Tier-3 escalation support for complex issues, focusing on root cause elimination and systemic improvement.
• Develop and maintain network documentation, standards, diagrams, and runbooks.
• Drive network automation, infrastructure-as-code, and policy-driven networking to enable scalable, repeatable, and low-touch operations.
• Introduce AIOps and telemetry-driven insights to improve network reliability and proactive issue detection.
• Own technical engagement with network vendors, carriers, and service providers, driving architecture alignment, performance outcomes, and cost optimization.
• Drive adoption of modern network architectures, including zero trust, SASE/SSE, cloud-native networking, and secure hybrid connectivity.
• Mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance across the Network Engineering team.

Qualifications

• Education: BS in Engineering and/or Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Certifications: Cisco CCNP, Cisco CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure, Datacenter or Security
• Experience/Knowledge: 8 years of experience in IT, configuring and installing various network devices and services (e.g., routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, VPN, QoS)
• Skills: Advanced technical skills and experience with L2 and L3 protocols and technologies such as IPSec, DMVPN, BGP, OSPF, VPC, QoS, 802.1x