Senior Network Engineer – Application Delivery & Edge Services

Description

The company is a global firm providing wealth management, asset servicing, asset management and banking to individuals, families, corporations and institutions.

Founded in 1889, it has more than 135 years of financial experience and over 24,000 partners, and it serves its clients with leading technology and high-touch service.

The team keeps enterprise applications reachable, secure and fast through content delivery networks, load balancing, DNS, reverse proxies, web application firewalls and related edge services.

The role suits an engineer with solid networking and application delivery skills who wants to build deep expertise in Akamai and enterprise edge platforms. Akamai experience is preferred but not required.

Partners also give their time and skills to community causes.

Responsibilities

• Build, configure, maintain and tune enterprise application delivery and edge services.
• Run and develop the Akamai platform, covering CDN, traffic management and web application security.
• Troubleshoot DNS, HTTP and HTTPS, TLS certificates, reverse proxies, caching and load balancing.
• Help onboard applications and connect them to the enterprise edge infrastructure.
• Analyze traffic, connectivity and performance to find and fix service delivery problems.
• Help configure and tune WAF policies, bot protection and DDoS mitigation.
• Investigate and resolve complex network and application delivery incidents across distributed systems.
• Work with network, application, infrastructure and cybersecurity teams to resolve service disruptions.
• Support availability, capacity planning, monitoring and operational resilience.
• Take part in incident response, root cause analysis, change management and problem management.
• Keep technical documentation, runbooks and configuration standards up to date.
• Find ways to improve application performance, service availability and operational efficiency.
• Help plan resiliency, design failover and test recovery for critical application delivery services.
• Assess emerging technologies and contribute engineering recommendations and platform improvements.
• Work with cybersecurity teams to implement and maintain protective controls in the application delivery environment.

Requirements

• You have 5+ years in network engineering, infrastructure engineering, application delivery or a related technical field, or can show equivalent proven experience.
• You have a strong grasp of TCP/IP, DNS, routing and network troubleshooting.
• You have hands-on experience with HTTP, HTTPS, TLS/SSL, certificates and web application connectivity.
• You have supported load balancers, reverse proxies, application delivery controllers or similar technologies.
• You can troubleshoot network and application connectivity problems that span several technology layers.
• You are familiar with network monitoring, traffic analysis, packet captures and diagnostic tools.
• You have worked in enterprise environments with formal change management and operational support processes.
• You bring strong analytical, problem-solving and communication skills.
• Preferred: experience with Akamai, Cloudflare, Fastly, F5 BIG-IP, Citrix NetScaler or comparable CDN and application delivery solutions.
• Preferred: familiarity with web application firewalls, bot mitigation, DDoS protection or API security technologies.
• Preferred: experience with CDN caching, traffic routing, global server load balancing or DNS-based traffic management.
• Preferred: knowledge of automation tools, scripting or API integration, such as Python, Terraform or REST APIs.
• Preferred: experience supporting high-availability or geographically distributed application infrastructure.
• Preferred: familiarity with cloud networking on Microsoft Azure or AWS.
• Preferred: relevant technical certifications such as CCNA, CCNP or comparable infrastructure certifications.
• Preferred: experience in financial services or other highly regulated enterprise settings.

Conditions

Base salary range: $114,500 - 194,700 USD, a good faith estimate of base pay.

You must already be authorized to work in the U.S., now and in the future, without needing employment-based visa sponsorship.

The company will not sponsor U.S. work visas for this role, including H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT or any other employment-based visa.

The team is flexible and collaborative, internal moves are encouraged, and senior leaders are easy to reach.

The company is committed to an inclusive workplace.

Benefits

• Retirement benefits include a 401k and a pension.
• Health and welfare cover includes medical, dental, vision, spending accounts and disability.
• Paid time off, parental and caregiver leave, and life and accident insurance.
• Voluntary and well-being benefits are also available.
• A discretionary bonus program is offered, which may include an equity component.