Hybrid Staff Network Engineer – DevOps

at EEOC

• Job title: Staff Network Engineer – DevOps
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $131,000 - $160,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Cloud, Cyber Security, Firewalls, Python, Terraform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Scottsdale, United States

About the role

• Staff Network Engineer leads technical strategy and architecture at Early Warning, enhancing enterprise networks. Collaborates across teams to ensure security, reliability, and scalability in network solutions.

Responsibilities

• Develops an enterprise network architecture strategy that addresses large, open-ended problems using forward-thinking approaches consistent with company technology and security strategy.
• Creates technical strategy for broad or complex requirements that extend beyond the Network Engineering team, solving multi-domain, enterprise-wide infrastructure challenges.
• Leads all aspects of network architecture, design, prototyping, and implementation across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environments.
• Contributes to the strategic direction of the Network Engineering and broader Infrastructure/Platform functions.
• Identifies, evaluates, and introduces emerging network technologies, automation frameworks, and architectural patterns to modernize operations and improve reliability.
• Defines standards, governance models, and best practices for network design, configuration management, automation, observability, and security.
• Provides advanced technical expertise and leadership in building robust implementation plans for major network initiatives; ensures execution through completion.
• Leads complex migrations, large-scale upgrades, cloud integrations, and architectural transformations.
• Serves as highest-tier escalation owner for major incidents, providing expert troubleshooting and root cause analysis across multi-layered infrastructure.
• Builds strong cross-functional relationships with Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, Cybersecurity, SRE, Application Engineering, and Product teams.
• Acts as a trusted advisor to leadership and partner teams regarding network strategy, security posture, and technology direction.
• Represents Network Engineering in enterprise architecture discussions and steering committees.
• Supports the company’s commitment to risk management by ensuring network architectures enforce strict confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data.
• Chairs or contributes to firewall governance, segmentation strategy, and security protocol definition.
• Ensures compliance with internal policies, regulatory standards, and industry best practices.
• Mentors senior and junior engineers, providing guidance on techniques, tooling, design patterns, and operational excellence.
• Establishes training standards and contributes to the professional development of the broader engineering organization.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or related field; or equivalent professional experience.
• 8+ years of progressive industry experience, including significant architecture-level responsibility in network engineering.
• Deep expertise in enterprise LAN/WAN, routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP), SDN, VPN, wireless, network security, and data center networking.
• Expert-level experience with firewalls (Cisco, Palo Alto), load balancers (F5), and cloud networking (AWS preferred).
• Experience designing and supporting hybrid (on-prem + AWS) network architectures.
• Strong background in infrastructure automation, CI/CD practices, and network-as-code methodologies.
• Proficiency with scripting/programming languages (Python, Bash, or similar).
• Strong understanding of IaC concepts and tooling (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation when applicable).
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a focus on systemic, cross-team impacts.
• Must pass background and drug screening.

Benefits

• Healthcare Coverage – Competitive medical (PPO/HDHP), dental, and vision plans as well as company contributions to your Health Savings Account (HSA) or pre-tax savings through flexible spending accounts (FSA) for commuting, health & dependent care expenses.
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Featuring a 100% Company Safe Harbor Match on your first 6% deferral immediately upon eligibility.
• Paid Time Off – Unlimited Time Off for Exempt (salaried) employees, as well as generous PTO for Non-Exempt (hourly) employees, plus 11 paid company holidays and a paid volunteer day.
• 12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave
• Maven Family Planning – provides support through your Parenting journey including egg freezing, fertility, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, postpartum, early pediatrics, and returning to work.