Senior Network Engineer – Application Delivery & Edge Services

Location: Chicago, IL; other location: Naperville, IL. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without employment-based visa sponsorship.

Salary: $114,500–$194,700 USD per year.

Company

hirify.global provides wealth management, asset servicing, asset management, and banking services to individuals, families, corporations, and institutions.

What you will do

• Engineer, configure, maintain, and optimize enterprise application delivery and edge services, including CDN, traffic management, DNS, reverse proxies, caching, and load balancing.
• Support the Akamai platform and onboard applications to enterprise edge infrastructure.
• Configure and tune WAF policies, bot protection, DDoS mitigation, and related cybersecurity controls.
• Analyze application traffic, connectivity, and performance and resolve complex incidents across distributed infrastructure.
• Collaborate with network, application, infrastructure, and cybersecurity teams on incident response, root cause analysis, change management, and problem management.
• Improve availability, capacity, resilience, failover design, recovery testing, monitoring, documentation, and operational efficiency.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in network engineering, infrastructure engineering, application delivery, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent demonstrated experience.
• Strong understanding of TCP/IP networking, DNS, routing, and network troubleshooting.
• Practical experience with HTTP/HTTPS, TLS/SSL, certificates, and web application connectivity.
• Experience supporting load balancers, reverse proxies, application delivery controllers, or related technologies.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex network and application connectivity issues across multiple technology layers.
• Familiarity with network monitoring, traffic analysis, packet captures, and diagnostic tools.
• Experience in enterprise environments with formal change management and operational support processes.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Authorization to work in the United States without employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future.

Nice to have

• Experience with Akamai, Cloudflare, Fastly, F5 BIG-IP, Citrix NetScaler, or comparable CDN and application delivery solutions.
• Familiarity with web application firewalls, bot mitigation, DDoS protection, or API security technologies.
• Experience with CDN caching, traffic routing, global server load balancing, or DNS-based traffic management.
• Knowledge of automation tools, scripting languages, or API integrations such as Python, Terraform, or REST APIs.
• Experience supporting high-availability or geographically distributed application infrastructure.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Azure or AWS cloud networking environments.
• Relevant certifications such as CCNA, CCNP, or comparable infrastructure certifications.
• Experience in financial services or other highly regulated enterprise environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible and collaborative work culture with an emphasis on financial strength and stability.
• Opportunities for internal movement and access to senior leaders.
• Inclusive workplace and community-focused culture.
• Retirement benefits including 401(k) and pension, health and welfare benefits, paid time off, parental and caregiver leave, life and accident insurance, and well-being benefits.
• Discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.
• Reasonable accommodation is available throughout the employment process.