Staff Network Engineer

As the nation's largest community credit union, we begin every day focused on delivering superior financial products and services for our 1.3 million members and more than $30 billion in managed assets. Our work has an economic impact as we support our members' financial goals. We are unapologetic about being devoted to our members and the communities we serve. Our business is guided by our people helping people philosophy – which includes our team members. 

BECU has been in business for more than 85 years, driven by unwavering core values and a dedication to improving the communities we serve. While we have a rich history, the future of our company, accelerated by business and technology transformation, is even brighter. There's never been a better time to work for BECU.

To learn more visit becu.org/careers.

PAY RANGE

BENEFITS

Employees and their eligible family members have access to a wide array of employee benefits, such as medical, dental, vision and life insurance coverage.  Employees have access to disability and AD&D insurance.  We also offer health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts, as well as health savings accounts, to eligible employees.  Employees are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan and employer-funded retirement plan.  Newly hired employees accrue 6.16 hours of paid time off (PTO) on a per pay period basis based on hours worked (up to a maximum of 160 PTO hours per year) and receive ten paid holidays throughout the calendar year. Additional details regarding BECU Benefits can be found here.

IMPACT YOU'LL MAKE:

As a Staff Network Engineer at BECU, you will have a direct impact on our journey by leading and influencing multiple teams to build, configure, and maintain network systems that support internal and external BECU business and technology customers. This role is also responsible for building and maintaining scripting and automation solutions, and for solving complex engineering challenges to support core operations platforms. The Staff Network Engineer will partner with and mentor other network engineers in engineering skills and capabilities and collaborate with business and systems analysts to operate enterprise-class products and services. The Staff Network Engineer will inform and develop the engineering organization on new patterns and practices.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Designing and Deploying Network Systems and Services: Evaluate, recommend, and deploy network systems and services with a security-first mindset, ensuring end-to-end network security and anticipating upcoming needs based on experience and business understanding.
• Design, create and support bi-modal and hybrid network infrastructure: Design, build, secure, operate hybrid patterns, monitor, and diagnose across hybrid cloud. Anticipate upcoming needs in the environment based on experience and business understanding and lead efforts to proactively address them.
• Providing Technical Expertise and Guidance: Present technical expertise, guidance, and advice to product teams and peers, bringing best practices to the engineering community and creating standards and guidelines in collaboration with senior leadership.
• Staying Aligned with Organizational and Industry Patterns: Stay informed by attending conferences, training, and communities of practice, and sharing learnings and findings with peers and internal partners.
• Improving Telemetry and Problem Resolution: Analyze complex telemetry and problem trends to improve coverage, resiliency, redundancy, and reduce outages and time to resolution. Implement telemetry for operations to increase reliability, availability, and confidentiality of products and services.
• Developing and Automating Services and Processes: Manage, develop, and automate services and processes using knowledge of scripting languages.
• Drive Technical Strategies and Implement Best Practices: Drive technical strategies within networking across the organization in partnership with senior leadership and architects, and design and implement best practices given requirements for software and systems in collaboration with team members and senior leaders.
• Attend conferences, training, and communities of practice: Present learnings and findings to peers and internal partners.  Work with management to identify and create training opportunities for the networking roles
• Occasional travel (up to 10%) may be required to/from BECU facilities.
• On-call support rotations to provide 24 x 7 coverage will be required.

This isn’t just about ticking off tasks on a list. It's about making a significant, positive change in BECU’s journey, where your contributions are valued, and your growth is continually fostered.

WHAT YOU’LL GAIN:

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Opportunity to work with a collaborative and innovative team
• Career growth and development opportunities
• Chance to make a significant, positive impact on BECU's technological landscape

QUALIFICATIONS: 

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related discipline, or equivalent work experience
• Minimum 7 years of related functional experience
• Minimum 2 years of experience in two or more of the following disciplines: Public Cloud Networking (Azure ExpressRoute, Azure virtual networking, private endpoint, Azure vHub, vWAN), Enterprise Networking, Firewalls
• Demonstrated experience designing, configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting network services and systems to production in a hybrid team environment required.
• Technical focus in two or more of the following disciplines required: Routing, Switching,  MPLS, BGP, VPN, NAC, Firewalls, load-balancing,  DNS, or other modern enterprise network infrastructure systems.
• Advanced understanding of how to troubleshoot, monitor, integrate, configure, and administer physical and virtual network appliances and/or internal platforms for BECU's use required.
• Advanced experience optimizing, debugging using one or more scripting languages. Uses systematic debugging/troubleshooting to diagnose cross service issues required.
• Advanced knowledge of agile methodologies and lean principles (e.g., Scrum, Kanban, Demos, Retrospectives, etc.) required.
• Advanced knowledge in the Build, Monitor, and Maintenance of IaaS, PaaS, SaaS network and networking components required.
• Proficient verbal and written communication skills required. Previous experience communicating with and influencing executives, leadership, and product groups required.

Desired Qualifications:

• Advanced degree in Computer Science or related discipline
• Certification in Cisco (CCNA) and/or competing Network Technologies; Microsoft AZ- 104, AZ-700
• Advanced experience integrating security at design time and regularly evaluating efficacy of security measures
• Previous experience using ITIL, traditional infrastructure, service management, modern software delivery practices, end-to-end automation concepts, and how to leverage tools to achieve these goals preferred.

JOIN THE JOURNEY:

Ready to make an indelible impact? Eager to be a part of a collaborative and innovative team where your ideas and contributions fuel the growth and success of BECU? Embrace the opportunity to grow with us. Apply now, bring your expertise to the table, and let’s achieve excellence together at BECU. Your journey of influence, innovation, and impactful contribution starts now. #BECU #YourGrowth #BECUJourney

EEO Statement:

BECU is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected status.