Senior Network Engineer
Employer not yet confirmed · United States · hybrid
Role Overview
Within ITIS DO EICS Networks, the Networks tower manages the lifecycle, delivery, quality, and performance of Nokia’s global connectivity services. This high-priority role supports the Network Infrastructure Business Unit and is dedicated to the Fabrinet manufacturing plant, where resilient, secure, and high-performing connectivity is essential to production continuity and the expanded IT scope.
Senior Network Engineer – Lead the design, modernization, implementation, and lifecycle management of factory site network infrastructure, with end-to-end ownership of critical network and security services. This includes LAN, WAN, wireless, internet, DNS/DHCP, firewalls, remote access, monitoring, and IT/OT connectivity, with a strong focus on reliability, cybersecurity, scalability, standardization, and business continuity.
- Own the end-to-end architecture and technical roadmap for the Fabrinet plant network, aligned with business, manufacturing, security, and global IT standards
- Assess the current environment and define a phased modernization plan covering capacity, resilience, lifecycle risks, technical debt, and migration priorities
- Design and implement highly available LAN, WAN, SD-WAN, wireless, internet, DNS/DHCP, firewall, remote-access, and load-balancing solutions
- Develop secure IT/OT network segmentation and connectivity patterns that protect manufacturing systems while enabling approved business services
- Lead network implementation, migration, validation, and cutover activities with minimal impact to production operations
- Establish redundancy, failover, backup, recovery, and capacity measures that meet agreed availability and business-continuity requirements
- Own major and priority incidents through resolution, providing permanent fixes or effective workarounds and clear stakeholder communication
- Perform root-cause and problem analysis, document corrective and preventive actions, and eliminate recurring design or operational weaknesses
- Plan and execute requests and changes in accordance with ITIL, security, testing, approval, rollback, and plant maintenance-window requirements
- Implement proactive monitoring, alerting, performance management, configuration control, and reporting for critical network services
- Define and enforce network security standards, conduct regular assessments, and remediate vulnerabilities and compliance gaps
- Coordinate with manufacturing site team , cybersecurity, application, infrastructure, facilities, and global network teams to deliver integrated solutions
- Manage technical engagement with OEMs, carriers, service providers, and L4 engineering teams, including escalation and service-performance follow-up
- Maintain architecture diagrams, configurations, operational procedures, support handover documents, asset records, and management reports
- Ability to work in flexible hours when required to meet business and operational demands.
- Provide technical leadership, mentor support teams, and identify automation and emerging technologies that improve reliability and operational efficiency
- Bachelor’s or engineering degree in Telecommunications, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field, with more than 5+ years of experience managing complex and business-critical network environments
- Proven experience designing and modernizing network architecture for manufacturing plants or other highly available operational environments
- Recent hands-on experience with routers, switches, SD-WAN, enterprise wireless, firewalls, remote access, virtualization, load balancers, and network management platforms
- Strong understanding of IT/OT segmentation, high-availability design, redundancy, disaster recovery, capacity planning, and secure plant connectivity
- Deep knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, ARP, STP, trunking, port channels, VRF, OSPF, IS-IS, BGP, VRRP, QoS, multicast, MPLS, IPsec, and TLS
- Hands-on experience with FortiGate and Palo Alto firewalls; experience with Zscaler SASE and relevant network or security certifications is highly desirable
- Strong diagnostic and root-cause analysis skills, supported by practical experience with monitoring, packet analysis, logging, performance, and security tools
- Knowledge of scripting, API integration, and AI/LLM-assisted network automation; ability to quickly learn Nokia routers, CLI commands, and deployment practices
- Working knowledge of ITIL incident, problem, change, configuration, and service-management processes
- Excellent English communication, stakeholder-management, and technical-leadership skills, with a customer-focused, accountable, and proactive approach in a global multicultural environment