Fresenius Medical CareRemote
Senior Principal Network Engineer
United States of America
Full Time
1 day ago
$132,000 - $198,000 USD
H1B Sponsor Likely
Key skills
AWSAzureGCPPerformance OptimizationLoad BalancingNetwork SecurityZero Trust
About this role
Fresenius Medical Care is a leading provider in the healthcare industry, and they are seeking a Senior Principal Network Engineer to determine network strategies and deliver solutions. The role involves designing, implementing, and supporting end-to-end network architecture while ensuring alignment with business strategy and compliance requirements.
Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, and support end‑to‑end network architecture across data center, cloud, campus, and WAN environments
- Assist in establishing reference architectures, design standards, and guardrails used across the organization
- Ensure network designs align with business strategy, application needs, security posture, and scalability goals
- Evaluate emerging technologies, platforms, and vendors; influence investment and platform selection decisions
- Provide hands‑on expertise during major incidents, architectural failures, or executive‑visible outages
- Lead deep technical investigations involving performance, resilience, or security failures
- Ensure network architectures meet availability, resiliency, compliance, and security requirements
- Identify systemic risks and drive preventative architectural improvements
Requirements:
- Minimum of 12 years' related experience of which at least 8 years should be in a network role
- Deep expertise in routing and switching (BGP, OSPF, IS‑IS, EVPN/VXLAN)
- Strong experience with data center and WAN architectures (MPLS, SD‑WAN)
- Advanced knowledge of network security concepts (firewalls, segmentation, zero trust, SASE)
- Experience with cloud networking (AWS, Azure, or GCP): VPC/VNet design, hybrid connectivity
- Hands‑on experience with monitoring, telemetry, and performance optimization
- Expert working level with switches, routers, wireless LANs, load balancing, DNS
- Bachelor's Degree preferred; Advanced Degree preferred
- A degree in Computer Science or MIS a plus
- MIS or Computer Science course work at the graduate level a plus
- Certification in a Network role (e.g. CCNA) is highly desirable