Associate Network Engineer
| Company | American Century Investments |
|---|---|
| Location | Kansas City, MO, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Entry Level/New Grad, Junior |
Requirements
- Minimum of 1-year hands-on experience in a network engineering role
- A degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems (MIS), Engineering, or equivalent professional experience
- IT experience in a technical and analytical role
- Familiarity with various operating system command line tools including Linux and Windows
- Excellent documentation, communication, and customer service skills
- Familiarity with enterprise firewall administration, and deployment
- Knowledge of enterprise IP Address Management (DHCP/DNS/IPAM)
- Routing and switching protocol knowledge and experience
- Experience in configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting site-to-site and remote access VPNs
- Familiarity with network automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Python, Ansible, or Terraform
- Understanding of cloud-native networking and hybrid cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Detail oriented with superb interpersonal skills to present thoughts and ideas to partners
- A self-starter, who embraces change, is intellectually curious and not afraid to ask ‘why’ and ‘what if’
- Demonstrates the American Century Investments Winning Behaviors: Client Focused, Courageous and Accountable, Collaborative, Curious and Adaptable, Competitively Driven
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with other network engineers to maintain the network infrastructure for our global enterprise
- Design, deploy, and maintain critical network solutions including LAN, WAN, wireless, remote access, and firewalls with a focus on scalability, automation, and cloud integration
- Participate in product evaluation, selection, and deployment of emerging technologies and transformative technologies (e.g., SD-WAN, SASE, Zero Trust)
- Drive innovation by bringing forward thoughtful, automation-driven network infrastructure solutions
- Share your creative mind, and collaborate with teammates, business owners, enterprise architects, developers, service providers, and management
- Research emerging network technology, applications, and integration to continuously modernize and optimize the network infrastructure
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams on network requests, implementation, and network security transformation initiatives
- Address raised network issues and outages by participating in a rotating on-call schedule and problem management process
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Palo Alto firewall administration
- Understanding of network automation frameworks, APIs, and DevOps workflows
- Cisco wireless, routing, and switching experience including Wireless Lan Controllers, IOS-XE, and/or NX-OS
- Exposure to Software Defined Networking (ex. Cisco ACI, Cisco SD-Access, and/or Cisco SD-WAN)
- Demonstrate effective approach to network and system troubleshooting
- Understanding of security-first design principles and compliance-driven network architecture