Senior Network Engineer - Network Architecture

Job Overview

Position Schedule: Full-Time

This job posting is anticipated to remain open for 30 days, from 16-May-2025. The posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.

What You'll Do:
The Senior Network Engineer in the Network Architecture Department will be responsible for tactical and strategic architectural guidance, technological vision, and solution deployment. The role will need to collaborate with Infrastructure Architecture, Cloud Team, Security, Command Center/SOC, and Enterprise Observability/Monitoring departments to develop and drive network infrastructure and monitoring solutions. You will work closely with peers and subject matter experts to research and develop architecture blueprints and roadmaps, perform testing, and verify solutions in lab/dev environments, contribute to RFP efforts, develop cost models, and contribute to business cases, present recommendations to leadership and explain why it is in the firm's best interest to pursue selected technologies or products. This role is hands-on and contributes to delivering and implementing network infrastructure, automation/IaC, and monitoring system projects with full documentation for developed solutions.

Here are a few of the key responsibilities you will be a part of...

• Work to understand the customer or stakeholder, their needs, and concerns to define and deliver solutions.
• Translate business requirements into solutions that support EJ business strategy while ensuring architectural adherence through blueprint and design reviews.
• Lead in scope/predictable timeline definition, requirements and costs gathering/analysis, technical design, development, configuration, testing, deployment, and operationalizing of secure network infrastructure solutions.
• Evaluate and recommend opportunities to improve the overall efficiency and effectiveness of infrastructure and operations with the intention of elevating the stability, observability, and resiliency of systems.
• Demonstrate forward thinking by proactively researching and developing technology use-cases that can support the firm's future strategy and efforts.
• Serve as an expert for network management/monitoring platforms and automation, including on premise and SaaS deployments.
• Create and contribute to Architecture Decision Records and present in Architecture Review meetings.
• Provide thought leadership and mentorship to team members across business and technical teams in solving complex business requirements.
• Demonstrate ability to effectively present recommendations and decisions with pertinent data and research to various technical and business leadership levels of the firm.
• Lead and contribute to the Network Services incident response team, driving problem management efforts to a complete conclusion.

This role is posted internally as an Engineer III

Edward Jones' compensation and benefits package includes medical and prescription drug, dental, vision, voluntary benefits (such as accident, hospital indemnity, and critical illness), short- and long-term disability, basic life, and basic AD&D coverage. Short- and long-term disability, basic life, and basic AD&D coverage are provided at no cost to associates. Edward Jones offers a 401k retirement plan, and tax-advantaged accounts: health savings account, and flexible spending account. Edward Jones observes ten paid holidays and provides 15 days of vacation for new associates beginning on January 1 of each year, as well as sick time, personal days, and a paid day for volunteerism. Associates may be eligible for bonuses and profit sharing. All associates are eligible for the firm's Employee Assistance Program. For more information on the Benefits available to Edward Jones associates, please visit our benefits page.

Hiring Minimum: $84100
Hiring Maximum: $143100

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act. Edward Jones is prohibited from hiring individuals with certain specified criminal history as set forth in Section 3(a)(39) and 15(b)(4) and Rule 17a-3(a)(12) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, and conducts background reviews consistent with FINRA Rule 3110(e). A copy of a notice regarding the provisions of the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance is available at: dcba.lacounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/FCOE-Official-Notice-Eng-Final-8.30.2024.pdf.

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Skills/Requirements

What Experience You'll Need:

• Bachelor's degree and/or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of experience working with enterprise network solutions, to include cloud, on-prem, colo and remote networks, software defined networks, automation and IaC, routing, switching, load-balancing, DNS/DDI, firewalls, Wi-Fi, packet analysis, etc., including:
  • 5+ years of experience managing/operating network monitoring, observability, telemetry and management platforms, systems, techniques, and protocols (SNMPv2/v3, gRPC, etc...).
  • 2+ years of experience administering and operating a NetBrain platform including mapping, runbook creation, and automation.
  • Understanding and experience with:
    • TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, DNS/DDI, NX-OS/IOS-XE, Meraki, EOS, modern firewall products, AVI/F5 load balancing functions.
    • Virtualization/containerization and cloud computing technologies.
    • GitHub, CI/CD pipelines and integration with IaC languages such as Terraform, Ansible, etc.

What Could Set You Apart:

• Experience with LogicMonitor, Netscout nGenius, ThousandEyes or other monitoring systems.
• Azure Cloud experience including core network and foundational platforms and troubleshooting tools.
• Strong understanding of project management and Agile concepts.

This role has occasional evening and/or weekend support depending on the needs of the business/team *

Candidates that live within a commutable distance from our Tempe, AZ and St. Louis, MO home office locations are expected to work in the office three days per week, with preference for Tuesday through Thursday.

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Awards & Accolades

At Edward Jones, we are building a place where everyone feels like they belong. We're proud of our associates' contributions to the firm and the recognitions we have received.

Check out our U.S. awards and accolades: Insights & Information Blog Postings about Edward Jones

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About Us

Join a financial services firm where your contributions are valued. Edward Jones is a Fortune 500¹ company where people come first. With over 9 million clients and 20,000 financial advisors across the U.S. and Canada, we're proud to be privately-owned, placing the focus on our clients rather than shareholder returns.

Behind everything we do is our purpose: We partner for positive impact to improve the lives of our clients and colleagues, and together, better our communities and society. We are an innovative, flexible, and inclusive organization that attracts, develops, and inspires performance excellence and a sense of belonging.

People are at the center of our partnership. Edward Jones associates are seen, heard, respected, and supported. This is what we believe makes us the best place to start or build your career.

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¹Fortune 500, published June 2024, data as of December 2023. Compensation provided for using, not obtaining, the rating.

Edward Jones does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, religion, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, pregnancy, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

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