Senior Staff Network Engineer

About the role

The successful candidate will join the Global Network Engineering team at Sandisk, responsible for architecting, implementing, maintaining, and optimizing the company's regional/local network infrastructure. They will ensure high network performance and reliability, and deliver critical network services to meet business goals.

Responsibilities

• Design, plan, deploy, manage, optimize, and troubleshoot global network infrastructure at corporate and manufacturing locations to meet business requirements and growth demands, ensuring availability and performance.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to define network requirements, develop project scopes, and implement solutions that ensure performance and availability.
• Collaborate with IT leadership to design and implement an enterprise architecture framework that supports robust IT infrastructure.
• Act as an escalation point for the Network Operations team to troubleshoot complex network issues related to BGP, SD-WAN, VLAN, Spanning Tree, security, network hardware/software, wireless, DHCP, DNS, etc.
• Collaborate with IT leadership and Global Network Architecture team to incorporate company standards and preferred practices into regional site network builds.
• Ensure global network infrastructure is properly monitored.
• Act as a network engineering point of contact and Subject Matter Expert to respond to network incidents/service requests according to Service Level Agreements.
• Lead the development and modernization of the IT network infrastructure by developing automation tools while improving end user experience.
• Prepare and maintain up-to-date documentation, including network configurations, runbooks, and handover documents, detailing the deployment of solutions.
• Provide mentorship, technical leadership, and support to deployment team members, partner teams, and stakeholders.
• Interact/communicate with vendors, service providers, peers, stakeholders, and business units for effective integration/operations of services and systems.
• Lead, plan, and participate in IT projects and Maintenance Window activities.
• Maintain close collaboration with other global IT functional teams.
• Create and maintain complex network documentation and self-manage multi-quarter projects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 12+ years professional experience in Network Architecture including Routing, Switching, Wireless, and Network Security.
• A proactive and resourceful individual who achieves goals independently while collaborating effectively in teams, sharing ideas, making recommendations, and ensuring alignment through solid communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong verbal, written, social, and presentation skills required to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences at all levels.
• Meticulous attention to detail, strong organizational skills, and excellent problem-solving abilities in an enterprise environment.
• Deep understanding of network design practices from small offices to large campuses.
• Hands-on experience and in-depth knowledge in networking technologies/solutions including SD-WAN, BGP, OSPF, HA, VLAN, Spanning Tree, EtherChannel, QoS, WAN, etc.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to establish professional working relationships with varying levels of both business and technical personnel.
• Exceptional documentation skills that can clearly articulate technical designs, issues and constraints, procedures, and network assessments.
• Strong project management, analytical, and problem determination/resolution skills.
• Proficient in version control, configuration management (Git/Ansible), and network automation to contribute effectively in a fast-paced deployment environment.
• Familiar with network scanning/analysis procedures and toolsets for network readiness assessments.

Preferred

• Experience working in a manufacturing environment.
• Technical certifications such as CCNP/CCIE or equivalent.
• Working knowledge of Infoblox.