Senior Network Engineer - AVP

About the role

Barclays is hiring a Senior Network Engineer (AVP) for its Whippany, NJ office. The role covers the design, build and run of Barclays' global network infrastructure platforms and connectivity products across data center, core, campus, branch and edge environments, within the Networks Modernization journey. It is a permanent position with a stated salary of $120,000 to $175,000.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain infrastructure platforms and connectivity products that support applications and data systems, keeping them reliable, scalable and secure.
• Ensure reliability, availability and scalability through software engineering techniques, automation and best-practice incident response.
• Build engineering: develop, deliver and maintain high-quality infrastructure solutions, choosing the right technologies and solutions.
• Incident management: monitor infrastructure and system performance, use data to reduce mean time to resolution and resolve issues and outages.
• Automation: implement automated tasks and processes using scripting and coding disciplines.
• Security: configure securely and protect infrastructure against cyber-attacks, vulnerabilities and unauthorised access.
• Teamwork: collaborate with product managers, architects and other engineers on IT infrastructure requirements and solutions.
• Learning: stay up to date with technology trends and contribute to the organisation's technology communities.

Required profile

• Deep practical project delivery experience across enterprise-grade networks, including BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, multicast, QoS, MPLS, private circuits, metro Ethernet and network segmentation.
• Experience designing, implementing and operating modern data center environments such as spine-leaf, VXLAN/EVPN, DCI, ACI and DWDM.
• Experience designing and implementing advanced data networks with Cisco, Arista, Fortinet and F5 platforms.
• Experience designing and operating enterprise Wi-Fi and SD-WAN solutions.
• Experience delivering large-scale data networks across LAN, MAN, WAN, data center, wireless, extranet and branch environments.
• As an Assistant Vice President, advise and influence decisions, contribute to policy, lead a team or complex assignments, set objectives, coach employees and manage risk and controls.

Required skills

• Understanding of resiliency and traffic engineering patterns, redundancy models, segmentation, firewall integration and traffic optimization.
• AI-driven automation and Python scripting.
• Network automation with Cisco NSO, Ansible and/or Python.
• Enterprise connectivity to AWS and/or Azure, including hybrid architectures and routing integration.

What we offer

• Base salary of $120,000 to $175,000.
• Eligibility for an incentive award.
• Employee benefits including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance and paid leave.