Senior Network Engineer

Job Title: Senior Network Engineer

Department: Technical

Reporting To: Manager, Security Operations and Engineering 

Employment Type: Full Time

Location(s): Philadelphia 

Overview:

The Senior Network Engineer will be responsible for maintaining and deploying network firewalls and related network devices across Audacy’s national markets and cloud segments. This individual will join a small team of network engineers who maintain these technologies and participate in the development of new enhanced network performance and security capabilities and solutions.

What You'll Do:

• Designs, develops, and directs the implementation of network solutions to meet the operational and strategic needs of Audacy
• Develops policies, practices, guidelines, and procedures consistent with professional standards, legal / regulatory requirements, and institutional goals
• Works closely with internal customers, IT staff, vendors, cloud providers and consults to coordinate plans for developing projects 
• Maintains roadmap for network services consistent with hardware lifecycle management and informed by future projects that enables effective capital and operational budget forecasts
• Ensures all network related hardware and software is operating properly and is on supported versions/releases 

• Plans for and implements network patching and upgrades for network operating systems and firmware
• Management of third party vendors to ensure successful resolution of issues 

• Monitors, Identifies, and determines risks regarding security issues and informs management of mitigation options 
• Utilizes systems management tools to analyze and tune performance of the network infrastructure software, hardware, and circuits to meet business needs
• Assists team members in day-to-day operations
• Adheres to change management procedures to mitigate the disruption of services to the business
• Provides resolution of technically sophisticated network related issues

More About You:

Required & Preferred:

• Demonstrated experience in network switching and routing in large enterprise networks, including spanning tree, segmentation, OSPF, route redistribution, multicast, QoS, and overlay networking 
• BS in Information Sciences, a related discipline or equivalent job experience required

• 5-7 years of network engineering and design experience in large enterprise environment required
• ITIL Foundations or Practitioner certification preferred 
• Fortinet NSE4, Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), or equivalent networking certification 
• Must be able to demonstrate a thorough understanding of business priorities and accomplish key business objectives
• Load balancer configuration including certificate management
• Capacity Planning and Network Management 
• Proven experience in managing a large scale WAN 

• In depth background of VoIP, VPNs, CASB, firewalls, PKI and associated protocols 
• Knowledge in operating systems and network security 
• A solid knowledge of wireless networks and associated encryption methods 
• Solid written and communication skills
• Knowledge of project management methodologies and experience in successfully leading technical projects (Project Management) 

• Vendor management experience 
• Demonstrated experience teaching and mentoring peers and project teams 
• Use of and interpretation of protocol analyzer preferred
• Automation programming and scripting experience preferred 
• Cloud Provider Certifications are preferred

Please be aware that Audacy will never ask you to send money at any point during the hiring process. Communication from legitimate Audacy representatives will only come from email addresses ending in @audacy.com. If you receive any suspicious requests or communications, please verify their authenticity before responding.

Audacy is a scaled, leading multi-platform audio content and entertainment company differentiated by its exclusive, premium audio content. Audacy operates one of the country’s two scaled radio broadcasting groups with leading positions across the country’s largest markets, as well as one of the country’s largest podcast networks and the Audacy direct-to-consumer streaming platform. Audacy is a major event producer and a digital marketing solutions provider and is the unrivaled leader in local news and sports radio. Learn more at www.audacyinc.com, Facebook, X, LinkedIn and Instagram.

Audacy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Audacy affords equal employment opportunity to qualified individuals regardless of their race, color, religion or religious creed, sex/gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age (over 40), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, military or veteran status, or other classification protected by applicable federal, state, or local law, and to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. Consistent with our commitment to equal employment opportunity, we provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities who need assistance in applying electronically for a position with Audacy, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship. To request a reasonable accommodation for this purpose, please call 1-610-660-5614. Please note that this phone number is to be used solely to request an accommodation with respect to the online application process. Calls for any other reason will not be returned. Reasonable accommodation requests are considered on a case-by-case basis.