Wilson Elser - Business & Legal Professionals

Wilson Elser - Business & Legal Professionals

Senior Network Engineer

Los Angeles, California · Senior · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$135k-$150kDetected 13 days ago
PythonAWSAzureTerraformAnsibleCybersecurityComplianceAccessibilityProject ManagementFirewallVPNCiscoBGP/OSPFSD-WANLoad BalancingWiresharkNetwork MonitoringZero TrustNetwork EngineeringUnityCommunicationCollaborationPublic Speaking

About the role

  • You'll be a key technical voice shaping infrastructure strategy, driving security posture through zero-trust principles, and ensuring high availability for business-critical systems - all while working remotely on a collaborative, senior-level team.

Responsibilities

  • Design & Architecture
  • Define requirements, evaluate technologies, and lead infrastructure changes from design through implementation.
  • Develop and maintain business continuity and disaster recovery plans for all network components.
  • Manage vulnerability findings and vendor security advisories for network equipment and systems.
  • Maintain accurate network documentation, configuration baselines, and topology diagrams.
  • Own and resolve network-related incidents and service requests, driving issues to resolution.
  • Partner with security, infrastructure, and application teams to support firm-wide initiatives.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of hands-on network engineering experience across multi-site enterprise environments
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field - or equivalent professional experience.
  • Cisco ACI - Hands-on experience with Nexus 9300/9000 series in ACI mode - fabric design, EPG/contract configuration, and troubleshooting.
  • Strong project management instincts with the ability to juggle multiple workstreams independently.
  • Deep expertise in enterprise routing protocols (OSPF, BGP) and switching (VLANs, port channels, spanning tree, QoS) across multi-site environments.
  • Experience in professional services, financial services, or legal industry environments.
  • Familiarity with network automation tooling (Ansible, Python/Netmiko, Terraform for network infra).
  • Proven ability to architect, implement, and troubleshoot complex, multi-vendor network infrastructure.
  • Strong documentation habits - you leave networks better documented than you found them.
  • Ability to translate ambiguous business requirements into clear, implementable technical designs.
  • Excellent communication skills - comfortable presenting to both engineers and executives.
  • A collaborative, team-first mentality balanced with the ability to drive work autonomously.
  • Routing & Switching

Nice to have

  • Palo Alto Firewalls - Production deployment, policy management, and troubleshooting of Palo Alto NGFW (Panorama experience a strong plus).
  • Cisco certification at the professional or expert level (CCNP, CCDP, or CCIE) strongly preferred.

Compensation

  • $135,000 - $150,000 USD

Benefits

  • Outstanding benefits package, including 401k match and generous PTO plan
  • Access to corporate discount plans and other benefits

Company info

  • We are unable to consider submissions from recruitment agencies without a current (dated as of 7/1/2024) agreement in place.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • cisions will be made without regard to an applicants race, color, age, sex, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, physical or mental d

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