Senior Network Engineer
About The Position
The Senior Network Engineer provides technical support for Alnylam’s global network infrastructure across corporate offices, R&D labs, manufacturing/OT environments, and international sites. This role leads major network initiatives, ensures highly available, secure, and scalable network services, and acts as the senior technical escalation point for complex issues. This position partners closely with the Network Architect to execute the global network strategy and oversee the technical quality of MSP delivered operations. This is a hybrid position and will primarily be based in Cambridge, MA.
Requirements
- 7+ years of enterprise network engineering experience supporting global, multi-site environments.
- Strong expertise in routing, switching, SD WAN, firewalls, enterprise Wi-Fi, and core protocols (e.g., BGP, OSPF, VPNs, VLANs, QoS).
- Experience supporting regulated or manufacturing environments and working with managed service providers.
- Familiarity with Azure networking and hybrid cloud connectivity.
- Strong troubleshooting ability and disciplined documentation practices.
- CCNP certification (strongly preferred); CCIE a plus.
Nice To Haves
- AWS networking certifications, preferred.
- Experience in biotech, pharma, healthcare, or similar regulated industries, preferred.
Responsibilities
- Engineer, implement, and optimize global LAN, WAN, Wi-Fi, SD WAN, and hybrid cloud connectivity across all locations.
- Execute network architecture standards, ensuring secure and resilient connectivity for new site deployments, lab expansions, and integrations.
- Support cloud networking, ensuring reliable and optimized connectivity between on-prem and cloud environments.
- Implement and maintain firewall policies, segmentation strategies, and Zero Trust/NAC capabilities across corporate, lab, manufacturing, and regulated systems.
- Serve as the Tier 3 escalation point for complex network incidents, leading root cause analysis and strengthening monitoring and alerting capabilities.
- Ensure high availability and performance through proactive capacity planning and redundant design across global sites.
- Maintain accurate network documentation, runbooks, and change management standards to ensure consistent, controlled operations.
Benefits
- medical, dental, and vision coverage
- life and disability insurance
- a lifestyle reimbursement program
- flexible spending and health savings accounts
- a 401(k)with a generous company match
- paid time off
- wellness days
- holidays
- two company-wide recharge breaks
- generous family resources and leave
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
501-1,000 employees
