6+ years in network engineering or network-focused IT infrastructure, including owning a multi-site corporate network end to end as the final escalation point — with no senior network engineer above you to hand it to. For the Staff end of the band, ~10+ years and a track record of defining network architecture across a multi-site organization
Deep Cisco Meraki experience at multi-site scale — and you understand what the Dashboard abstracts away. You can design and reason about the routing, segmentation, and RF beneath it, and keep the network running when the abstraction leaks. Fluency with the GUI is assumed, not the job
Vendor-agnostic command of network fundamentals — you design from first principles, not from templates: L2 / L3 boundaries, IP addressing and subnetting (IPAM), routing including BGP with ISPs, dual-circuit / SD-WAN failover, VLAN segmentation, DNS / DHCP, QoS, and firewall policy — and you troubleshoot at the packet level (e.g. Wireshark) when the dashboard isn’t enough
Able to walk us through a multi-site network you designed end to end — the trade-offs you made, a failure mode you engineered out, and a cutover or migration you ran without taking the business down
A standards-setter — you’d rather define one blueprint every site copies than improvise each office, and you keep the next buildout cleaner than the last
Automation-minded — you reach for the Meraki API, Pulumi or Terraform, and scripting to manage the network as code, rather than clicking through dashboards by hand
A calm operator under pressure — when a site drops, you’re methodical, communicative, and relentless about root cause, not just the quick fix
A program manager who delivers through others — comfortable owning timelines, vendors, and a budget, and getting work done through on-site teams you don’t directly manage
Cisco depth at CCNP / CCIE level — certified or demonstrably equivalent. CCNA alone is below the bar for this role; Meraki CMNA / ECMS a plus
Production experience operating Tailscale or comparable zero-trust network access (ZTNA), and certificate / mTLS fundamentals
Office buildouts and structured / low-voltage cabling — commissioning networked building systems and coordinating installers
Physical-security and AV networking — getting cameras / access-control (e.g. Verkada) and conferencing (Neat, Zoom) onto the network and keeping them available
Comfortable running work through an ITSM / service-desk platform and adopting AI-assisted, agentic automation — we run an AI-native ITSM (Serval)
Connectivity and SaaS-reachability monitoring across sites — synthetic / path monitoring (e.g. ThousandEyes, Catchpoint), a multi-site NMS (e.g. Auvik, PRTG, or Datadog), and SNMP / syslog telemetry, on top of Meraki’s native alerting
Wi-Fi design and validation tooling — RF surveys and heat-mapping (e.g. Ekahau or Hamina)
Experience with Meraki, Tailscale, Neat, Zoom, Verkada, Okta, and 1Password
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