Senior Network Engineer (Hybrid)

About Us

Selective is a midsized U.S. domestic property and casualty insurance company with a history of strong, consistent financial performance for nearly 100 years. Selective is recognized in a wide variety of awards and honors, including listing in Forbes Best Midsize Employers in 2025 and certification as a Great Place to Work® in 2025 for the sixth consecutive year. Employees are empowered and encouraged to Be Uniquely You by being their true, unique selves and contributing their diverse talents, experiences, and perspectives to our shared success. Together, we are a high-performing team working to serve our customers responsibly by helping to mitigate loss, keep them safe, and restore their lives and businesses after an insured loss occurs.

Overview

Selective is seeking a Sr. Network Infrastructure Engineer to partner with engineers across IT network infrastructure, supporting our business platforms and ensuring stable, efficient operations while continuously improving to meet the evolving needs of our business community. This role is focused on network engineering operations, including maintaining, optimizing, and enhancing performance and reliability of the network environment. The Engineer will provide technical expertise to help drive strategic initiatives and support Selective Insurance’s “Cloud First” direction.

Responsibilities

• Provide operational expertise in IT to support, maintain, and optimize highly integrated, secure, resilient, and consistently available network solutions, serving as the gate to production by enforcing production readiness standards and operational acceptance practices.
• Ability to Implement and maintain standardized methodologies to deploy and maintain routing and switching, LAN/WAN, wireless network, load balancers, cloud infrastructure networking components, network monitoring tools, WAN acceleration, SD WAN and other relevant technologies.
• Knowledge of SDN concepts and familiarity with Python, REST, model-driven programmability, containers and other modern aspects of network engineering.
• Strong background in data center networking technologies like Cisco IOS, NXOS, Cisco VPC, Spine-Leaf designs, OTV and VXLAN layer2 extensions, etc.
• Perform as SME escalation in support of IT operational organization during complex highly impactful outages that can cross multiple functional domains, involving chronic recurring problems, vendor product bugs and other critical network functionality.
• Ensure all engineered solutions have sufficient design documentation available including HLD and LLD documents.
• Ensure all solutions are operationally ready for production by incorporating operational requirements and providing complete documentation, training, and standard operating procedures to support daily operations, maintenance, upgrades, and escalation management.
• Identify areas for enhanced efficiency through automation, suggested process improvements and streamlined workflow.
• Work with Information Security to ensure that security policies are properly engineered into the delivered solutions and features.

Qualifications

• College degree in Computer Science or a related field preferred.
• 10 + years of relevant experience in a fast-paced, enterprise-level environment including expertise roles.
• Experienced in Azure Cloud networking.
• Advanced level knowledge of many of the following technologies: Cisco Catalyst and Nexus switches; Cisco routers; Cisco Meraki wireless LAN; Cisco ISE; F5 LTM, APM and iRules; Palo Alto firewalls, including Prisma Access; Cloud based technologies (Azure, AWS and GCP) is required, with a strong understanding of and experience with Azure; Palo Alto SD WAN; SolarWinds.
• Network certifications required from leading network vendors: Cisco (CCNA, CCNP, CCIE); F5; Microsoft Azure.
• Ability to work with vendors and research product offerings to determine appropriate solutions.
• Ability to review, evaluate and make recommendations on vendor SOW’s, BOM’s and proposals.
• Demonstrated ability to successfully communicate to all levels of IT, including producing status reports interface with stakeholders and report to IT expertise.
• Drive alignment of network engineering initiatives with business objectives and measurable KPIs.
• Share knowledge and provide guidance to peers to support team capability and skill development.
• Champion Agile, DevOps, and modern delivery practices within network engineering projects.
• Engage with business stakeholders and cross-functional teams to ensure solutions are operationally supportable, aligned to business needs, and meet production and service requirements.
• Lead innovation efforts by identifying technical debt, proposing modernization strategies, and implementing automation.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define operational success metrics and track performance against KPIs related to system stability, availability, and support effectiveness.
• Promote diversity, equity, and inclusion within the team and contribute to an inclusive culture.
• Advocate continuous learning and career development opportunities for team members.
• Strive to be adaptable, collaborative, strategic, and communicative.

Total Rewards

Selective Insurance offers a total rewards package that includes a competitive base salary, incentive plan eligibility at all levels, and a wide array of benefits designed to help you and your family stay healthy, achieve your financial goals, and balance the demands of your work and personal life. These benefits include comprehensive health care plans, retirement savings plan with company match, discounted Employee Stock Purchase Program, tuition assistance and reimbursement programs, and 20 days of paid time off. Additional details about our total rewards package can be found by visiting our benefits page.

Pay Range

The actual base salary is based on geographic location, and the range is representative of salaries for this role throughout Selective's footprint. Additional considerations include relevant education, qualifications, experience, skills, performance, and business needs. Pay Range: USD $130,000.00 - USD $176,000.00 /Yr.

Additional Information

Selective is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. That means we respect and value every individual’s unique opinions, beliefs, abilities, and perspectives. We are committed to promoting a welcoming culture that celebrates diverse talent, individual identity, different points of view and experiences – and empowers employees to contribute new ideas that support our continued and growing success. Building a highly engaged team is one of our core strategic imperatives, which we believe is enhanced by diversity, equity, and inclusion. We expect and encourage all employees and all of our business partners to embrace, practice, and monitor the attitudes, values, and goals of acceptance; address biases; and foster diversity of viewpoints and opinions.