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# Senior Network Engineer

- **Company:** Strategic Staffing Solutions
- **Location:** St. Louis, MO, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, Border Gateway Protocol, Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, Computer Networks, Data Centers, Firmware, Network Security, Network Planning and Design, Routing, Network Segmentation, Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Zero Trust Network Access, Virtual Local Area Networks, Software Vulnerability Management, Wide Area Networks, Data Logging, Scripting, Technical Debt, HybridCloud, Firewalls (Computer Science), Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Information Technology, Enterprise Integration, Firewall Services Module, Restful APIs
- **Published:** November 1, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/46bebea5-5c3f-4d7e-b3c9-355c99c01fdf

## About the Role

* Expert: Enterprise network architecture strategy, multi-year roadmap ownership, and engineering across routing and switching (BGP, OSPF, VLANs), wireless, firewalls, network security controls, WAN, SD-WAN, data center, and cloud connectivity.
 * Expert: Cisco Meraki engineering and operations at enterprise scale, including cloud-managed networking, SD-WAN, wireless, standardized configurations, and firmware strategy.
 * Expert: High-availability and resilient network design, network segmentation, vulnerability remediation, lifecycle management, and secure integration with identity, endpoint, server, cloud, and security platforms.
 * Advanced: Experience supporting multi-site, distributed, manufacturing, or similarly complex environments within a global platform-based infrastructure model.
 * Expert: Demonstrated ability to serve as the highest-level network engineering subject matter expert, lead complex technical workstreams, mentor engineers, communicate architecture decisions to senior stakeholders, and produce authoritative standards, designs, business cases, and operational handoffs.
 * Advanced: Experience conducting technology feasibility, total-cost, risk, capacity, and lifecycle analyses and translating findings into recommendations that influence infrastructure investment, enterprise expansion, and modernization strategies.
 * Preferred Intermediate: Hybrid cloud networking in Azure or AWS; Meraki APIs, REST APIs, scripting, Infrastructure as Code, and network-automation frameworks.
 * Preferred Intermediate: ITIL-based operating models, platform or service ownership, global vendor collaboration, and support for mergers and acquisitions, international expansion, or large-scale infrastructure transformation.
 * Preferred: CCNP, CCIE, vendor-equivalent certification, or equivalent demonstrated.

Education and Experience

 * Bachelor s degree (B.S./B.A.) or equivalent from a college or university in information technology, computer science, engineering, or a related field; minimum of seven years of progressive enterprise network engineering experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
 * Relevant certifications such as CCNP, CCIE, or vendor-equivalent credentials are preferred.

*Beware of scams. S3 never asks for money during its onboarding process.

## Description

We are looking for a very senior Network Engineer / Network Architect-level professional who can own the enterprise network platform, establish architecture strategy and standards, lead major technical initiatives, and help drive long-term planning, budgeting, modernization, and investment decisions., * Define enterprise network architecture strategy and own the multi-year technology roadmap across LAN, wireless, WAN, SD-WAN, data center, and cloud or hybrid connectivity, ensuring a secure, resilient, scalable, and cost-effective global platform.

 * Own global Cisco Meraki and SD-WAN architecture, configuration templates, naming conventions, firewall policies, firmware strategy, and deployment standards.
 * Set and govern global network standards, reference architectures, hardware and vendor baselines, lifecycle roadmaps, and End-of-Life and End-of-Support plans; make final engineering recommendations for exceptions and strategic platform direction.
 * Engineer secure-by-design networks in partnership with Cybersecurity, including vulnerability management, IT/OT segmentation, Zero Trust principles, redundancy, compliance support, and risk mitigation.
 * Develop automation and repeatable deployment playbooks for site provisioning, configuration, validation, monitoring, logging, performance measurement, and technical-debt reduction.
 * Lead complex technical workstreams for greenfield and brownfield plant deployments, expansions, acquisitions, upgrades, cutovers, and go-live activities; evaluate solution feasibility, cost, risk, and long-term supportability while coordinating vendors, cabling providers, plant teams, and local IT.