Senior Network Engineer

Administrative - Horizon Center, 10325 Meanley Drive, San Diego, California, United States of America

Posted Thursday, January 22, 2026 at 8:00 AM

Mission Federal is looking for a Senior Network Engineer to join our team. Do you enjoy Routing, Switching and Firewalls? How about developing actionable diagrams, principles, models, designs, standards and guidelines? Are you looking for an incredibly stable company with great tenure, that is hyper local and focused on giving back to the San Diego community?

Schedule: Monday – Friday

Base Salary: $ - $ a year

* Actual base pay within this range will be determined by several components, including but not limited to, relevant experience, internal equity, skills, qualifications, and other job-related factors permitted by law.

If this sounds interesting to you, below are a few more details.

• Architecture & Design: Design resilient LAN/WAN architectures supporting branches, Headquarters, data centers, and cloud workloads. Develop standards for Cisco Nexus ACI fabrics (tenants, VRFs, EPGs, contracts) and Catalyst/Meraki campus/branch networks. Plan and optimize enterprise Wi Fi (RF site surveys, channel/power planning, roaming, and high density coverage).
• Implementation & Configuration: Deploy and configure Cisco Nexus/ACI, Catalyst/Meraki switches & APs, and SD WAN as applicable. Implement Palo Alto Networks firewalls, Panorama for centralized policy/management, and Prisma Access for secure remote connectivity. Build standardized network services: routing (OSPF/BGP), switching (VPC/MLAG), QoS, NAT, DHCP, DNS integrations, segmentation (ACLs/ microsegmentation), and VPNs (site to site and remote).
• Operations & Reliability: Own day to day network health: monitoring, alerting, performance tuning, and capacity planning. Troubleshoot complex L1–L7 issues across wired/wireless, security policies, and cloud edges; drive root-cause analysis and corrective actions. Maintain network documentation (diagrams, runbooks, inventories, IPAM) and ensure configuration backups along with version control.
• Security & Compliance: Collaborate with the Information Security team to implement zero trust principles, least privilege segmentation, and threat prevention. Manage firewall policies, decryption, URL filtering, IPS, Global Protect/Prisma Access, and secure Wi Fi (802.1X, EAP TLS). Support regulatory and audit requirements (e.g., FFIEC, NCUA guidance, GLBA), including logging, retention, and control attestations. Maintains in-depth knowledge of and complies with all Mission Fed, departmental and security policies and procedures as well as federal regulations applicable to the position, including BSA requirements.
  
  Completes all required compliance training as assigned.
• Automation & Continuous Improvement: Leverage APIs, Infrastructure as Code, and scripting to streamline deployments and reduce manual effort. Evaluate new technologies; perform POCs and recommend improvements aligned to business and security goals. Contribute to incident response, DR testing, and resiliency exercises.
• Customer Service &
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Provide white glove support to internal teams and branch staff; communicate status and impact clearly. Coordinate with vendors/carriers for circuits, hardware RMAs, escalations, and service optimizations. Mentor junior engineers/technicians; share knowledge via training and best practices.

Here is what we are looking for:

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field– OR – equivalent experience demonstrating deep technical proficiency and business impact.
• Preferred
  
  Certifications:
  
  Cisco: CCNP Enterprise/Data Center, CCIE, Cisco Meraki;
  Palo Alto Networks: PCNSE, PCCSA;
  Prisma Access Specialty. Wireless: CWNA/CWNP. Security:
  CompTIA Security+, CISSP. – OR – equivalent experience demonstrating deep technical proficiency and business impact.

Experience:

• 6+ years in senior IT infrastructure and networking roles within enterprise or financial services environments.
• Proven track record supporting highly available networks and systems, resilient branch connectivity, and secure remote access.
• Cisco Nexus ACI (fabric…