Senior Network Engineer (Cisco Meraki)

Location: St. Louis, Missouri, with some travel. Remote candidates may be considered if based in the United States and willing to travel 15–25% to St. Louis and plant locations across North America and Europe.

Salary: mid-$130Ks to upper-$160Ks annually.

Company

hirify.global provides staffing and contract-to-hire services.

What you will do

• Define enterprise network architecture strategy and multi-year roadmaps across LAN, wireless, WAN, SD-WAN, data center, and cloud or hybrid connectivity.
• Own global Cisco Meraki and SD-WAN architecture, configuration standards, firewall policies, firmware strategy, and deployment practices.
• Govern network standards, reference architectures, vendor baselines, lifecycle roadmaps, and end-of-life or end-of-support plans.
• Design secure networks with Cybersecurity, including IT/OT segmentation, Zero Trust principles, redundancy, vulnerability remediation, compliance support, and risk mitigation.
• Develop automation, deployment playbooks, monitoring, logging, validation, and performance-measurement practices.
• Lead greenfield and brownfield plant deployments, expansions, acquisitions, upgrades, cutovers, and go-live activities with vendors, plant teams, cabling providers, and local IT.

Requirements

• Expert-level enterprise network architecture, roadmap ownership, and engineering across routing and switching, including BGP, OSPF, and VLANs; wireless, firewalls, WAN, SD-WAN, data center, cloud connectivity, and network security controls.
• Expert-level Cisco Meraki engineering and operations at enterprise scale, including cloud-managed networking, SD-WAN, wireless, standardized configurations, and firmware strategy.
• Expert-level high-availability and resilient network design, network segmentation, vulnerability remediation, lifecycle management, and secure integration with identity, endpoint, server, cloud, and security platforms.
• Advanced experience supporting multi-site, distributed, manufacturing, or similarly complex environments within a global platform-based infrastructure model.
• Ability to serve as the highest-level network engineering subject matter expert, lead complex technical workstreams, mentor engineers, communicate architecture decisions to senior stakeholders, and produce standards, designs, business cases, and operational handoffs.
• Advanced experience conducting technology feasibility, total-cost, risk, capacity, and lifecycle analyses and translating findings into infrastructure investment, expansion, and modernization recommendations.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in information technology, computer science, engineering, or a related field, plus a minimum of seven years of progressive enterprise network engineering experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Nice to have

• Intermediate experience with hybrid cloud networking in Azure or AWS; Meraki APIs, REST APIs, scripting, Infrastructure as Code, and network-automation frameworks.
• Intermediate experience with ITIL-based operating models, platform or service ownership, global vendor collaboration, mergers and acquisitions, international expansion, or large-scale infrastructure transformation.
• CCNP, CCIE, vendor-equivalent certification, or equivalent demonstrated credentials.

Culture & Benefits

• W2 contract-to-hire arrangement.
• Remote work is available for US-based candidates who accept the stated travel requirement.
• The role includes 15–25% travel to St. Louis and plant locations across North America and Europe.