Senior IT Platform Engineer, Network & Connectivity

Job Category :
Exempt

Requisition Number : SENIO
003361

• Posted:
  February 25, 2026
• Full-Time
• Hybrid

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Petaluma
Petaluma, CA 94952, USA

SUMMARY

The Senior Platform Engineer designs, builds, modernizes, and operates a defined enterprise network and connectivity platform across plants, warehouses, offices, cloud environments, and remote users. This role owns the network platform end to end, including architecture, automation, resiliency, security integration, standards, and operational performance.

The position emphasizes network design, Infrastructure as Code for network configuration, automation, AI-enabled monitoring, and reduction of technical debt to deliver resilient, scalable, and secure connectivity aligned to enterprise strategy and manufacturing uptime requirements.

The full salary range for this position is $111,200 – $166,800
. However, our current budget for a new hire is $111,200 – $150,000
, depending on the candidate's specific experience and skills.

May include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Own the network and connectivity platform end to end across plants, warehouses, offices, cloud, and remote environments
• Design for high availability, fault tolerance, scalability, and rapid recovery
• Ensure network reliability supports manufacturing uptime, enterprise operations platform floor connectivity, and business continuity
• Serve as technical authority for architecture, standards, and significant design decisions within the connectivity domain
• Drive modernization switching, routing, wireless, SD-WAN, firewall, and remote access technologies
• Reduce technical debt and eliminate configuration drift across network infrastructure
• Act as a technical mentor and escalation point within the network domain

• Design and implement resilient, secure, and scalable LAN, WAN, wireless, and cloud connectivity architectures
• Define and maintain network standards, reference architectures, segmentation models, and security zones
• Lead platform upgrades, firewall refreshes, SD-WAN migrations, and modernization initiatives
• Ensure integration with adjacent platforms such as security, cloud, digital workplace, data center, and applications
• Support hybrid environments spanning on-premises, cloud networking, and SaaS platforms, and remote access solutions
• Design and maintain secure connectivity between corporate IT and operational technology (OT) environments where applicable

• Define network configurations using code, templates, or structured configuration management tools
• Establish version-controlled configurations as the system of record for switches, firewalls, and network devices
• Enable repeatable, low-risk changes through standardized deployment models
• Reduce manual changes and operational inconsistencies
• Contribute to CI/CD practices for infrastructure or platform changes
• Maintain version-controlled repositories as the authoritative source of platform configuration

• Automate network provisioning, lifecycle tasks, validation, recovery, and compliance checks
• Reduce manual operational toil through scripting and workflow automation
• Partner with MSPs and NOC to ensure consistent execution of runbooks and operational processes
• Improve monitoring signal quality through tuning, correlation, and proactive management
• Design self-healing or auto-remediation capabilities where appropriate

• Ensure network resilience, redundancy, backup, and disaster recovery alignment
• Partner with Security teams to maintain compliance, segmentation, access controls, and monitoring standards
• Maintain documented recovery procedures and test them periodically
• Support enterprise risk management initiatives for network and connectivity to platforms to ensure stability and security

• Leverage AI-driven monitoring and analytics to detect anomalies and performance risks
• Support predictive insights related to bandwidth utilization, capacity trends, and failure prediction
• Contribute to AI-assisted incident investigation and root cause analysis where…