Senior Network Engineer
The Brixton Group · Cambridge, MA · Yesterday
On-siteScience$60–$70/hrContract
Responsibilities
- Engineer, implement, and optimize LAN, WAN, Wi-Fi, SD-WAN, and hybrid-cloud connectivity across all locations.
- Support cloud networking across Azure and AWS, ensuring reliable and optimized connectivity between on-premises, lab, and cloud environments.
- Implement and maintain firewall policies, segmentation strategies, and VPN/ZTNA/NAC capabilities (e.g., FortiGate, FortiClient) across corporate, lab, and regulated systems, including secure access integration with identity providers such as Okta.
- Serve as the senior technical owner for network incidents, performing hands-on troubleshooting and root cause analysis, and strengthening monitoring and alerting capabilities.
- Maintain high availability and performance through proactive capacity planning and redundant design across all sites.
- Maintain accurate network documentation, runbooks, and change-management standards to ensure consistent, controlled, and audit-ready operations.
Qualifications
- 7 years of enterprise network engineering experience supporting global, multi-site environments.
- Strong expertise in routing, switching, SD-WAN, firewalls, enterprise Wi-Fi, and core protocols (e.g., BGP, OSPF, VPNs, VLANs, QoS).
- Experience supporting regulated or laboratory environments and working with carriers and technology vendors.
- Familiarity with AWS/Azure networking and hybrid cloud connectivity.
- Strong troubleshooting ability and disciplined documentation practices.
- CCNP certification (strongly preferred); CCIE a plus.
- AWS networking certifications, preferred.
- Experience in biotech, pharma, healthcare, or similar regulated industries, preferred.