Key skills
SDWAN ArchitectureNetwork EngineeringCCNP CertificationFortinet NSE CertificationLayer 2 Network DesignLayer 3 Network DesignWAN TechnologiesBGPCisco Networking EquipmentPalo Alto FirewallsSite-to-Site VPNNetwork SecuritySoftware-Defined Network EnvironmentsData Center ColocationVirtual Network FabricAruba ClearPass Policy ManagerCisco ISEZscaler ZIAWireless PlatformsNetwork Performance PlanningNetwork Disaster RecoveryNetwork StandardsPythonAnsibleDevOpsInfrastructure as CodeAkamaiThousandEyesAGILE MethodologyITSM ProcessesCloud Network SecurityAmazon AWSMicrosoft AzureGoogle GCPAzure Kubernetes ServiceCisco RoutingSwitchingCisco NGFWCisco IDS/IPSInfoblox DDIVendor ManagementRAWSAzureGCPKubernetesSaaSAgileLeadershipFirewall
About this role
Humana Inc. is a leading U.S. healthcare company that focuses on delivering care and services to improve health outcomes. The Senior Network Engineer is responsible for designing and implementing network solutions, optimizing remote network ecosystems, and providing engineering support for multi-platform environments.
Responsibilities:
- Design and implement complex solutions across multiple SD-WAN and wireless platforms
- Build and maintain robust authentication policies using Aruba ClearPass Policy Manager and Cisco ISE
- Develop integrations for Zscaler ZIA with existing firewall stacks and edge infrastructure
- Manage high-availability environments across diverse switching and wireless platforms
- Participate in the lifecycle of multiple large-scale projects, ensuring high-quality delivery through rigorous Methods of Procedure (MOPs)
- Serve as a technical mentor to junior and mid-level engineers, conduct deep-dive technical reviews, and foster a culture of documentation with attention to detail
- Partnering with internal and external business groups to develop technical solutions to meet business objectives
- Design for new solutions
- Standard solution configuration
- Technology roadmap development, management, and maintenance
- Documenting and updating all network infrastructure and supported business processes
- Capacity and performance planning
- Integration with related infrastructure engineering efforts
- Alignment and integration with information security requirements
- Disaster recovery/business continuity integration
- Continuous knowledge and skills improvement
- WAN circuit topology and telco/carrier technical integration
- Assist in motivating and growing the Network Engineering team to its next level of maturity, agility (NetDevOps) and scalability
- Help build foundation and help define capabilities and processes to address network needs in tactical and strategic terms
- L4 Troubleshooting & resolving network issues and outages
- Application performance troubleshooting using network/cloud tools and methodology
- Define, documenting, and enforcing network standards
- Perform after-hours solutions implementation
- Support other teams as needed, after-hours
- Participates in on-call rotation as needed
- Write & maintain documentation & SOP's for other operations teams
Requirements:
- BS/BA, preferably in a technical or scientific field or in lieu of BS/BA, 4+ years industry experience + industry certifications
- 4+ years of experience working with SDWAN architecture network designs, implementations, and support
- Network engineering certification such as CCNP, Fortinet NSE or equivalent
- 4+ years of technical network engineering experience, and 3+ years of project leadership experience
- 4+ years of Layer 2/ Layer 3 network architectural design (WAN/Cloud/Data Center) and engineering experience
- 4+ years of experience working with BGP and other WAN technologies
- Strong experience supporting large-scale environments and remote sites
- Experience with Cisco networking equipment
- Experience with Palo Alto Firewalls
- Experience in Site-to-Site VPN technologies
- Knowledge of QoS and network security functions (firewalls, VPN, IPS, etc)
- Ability to manage complex multi-organizational projects
- Experience with implementing and operating software-defined network environments (Cisco, Aruba, Fortinet, Meraki etc.)
- Vendor management skills (hardware/software security vendors as well as third party vendors)
- Experience working with Data Center Colocation facilities and virtual network fabric provided by vendors such as Equinix and Mega-Port
- US Citizenship
- Pass eQIP certification background check
- Demonstrated experience with DevOps
- Infrastructure as Code experience
- Programming/scripting languages and frameworks knowledge and experience, in support of automation (Python, Ansible, etc.)
- Familiarity with Akamai, ZScaler, and ThousandEyes
- Experience with AGILE methodology & ITSM processes
- Understanding of CSP network offerings and how to apply them to public cloud providers (Amazon AWS, MS Azure, Google GCP)
- Understanding of Cloud Network Security technologies
- Familiarity with public cloud provider PaaS and SaaS offerings (e.g. Azure Kubernetes Service, Application Service Environment, etc.) Data Center infrastructure solutions: Cisco (R&S), Palo Alto (NGFW + IDS/IPS functions), Infoblox (DDI), Cisco ISE, also implemented on Cisco products