Network Engineering, Director

Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count? Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups. Across the globe, we’re 150,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long‑term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.

With a vision to be the world’s most trusted financial group, it’s part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career.

Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded. The selected colleague will work at an MUFG office or client sites four days per week and work remotely one day. A member of our recruitment team will provide more details.

Job Summary

The role is a senior network engineering leadership position responsible for designing, deploying, and operating large‑scale, complex enterprise networks across data centers, WAN, and cloud environments. The position requires deep hands‑on expertise in Cisco‑based infrastructure, ACI, SD‑WAN, AWS networking, and advanced routing and switching technologies, along with strong experience leading transformational network initiatives. The role partners closely with cross‑functional teams and senior leadership to drive strategic network architecture, ensure high availability and security, and deliver reliable, cost‑effective network solutions that support business growth and innovation.

Work Experience

• Significant experience in network engineering. Team management experience preferred.
• Solid experience in designing, deploying and operating large enterprise complex network environments managing data network infrastructure.
• Hands‑on engineering experience with Cisco routers, switches, firewalls, F5 load‑balancers, virtual private network (VPN) concentrators, Cisco ACI, SD‑WAN, AWS cloud services, DNS, proxy, and others for all data centers and branches.
• Design, deployment, and troubleshooting expertise in MPLS, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, STP, Ether channels, OTV, VPC, VDC, NTP, SNMP, NetFlow, Cisco Express Forwarding (CEF), security protocols, and network management tools including DCNM, NAE, Live Action, SolarWinds and Wireshark.
• Proven related technical experience with planning, engineering, design and implementation of complex enterprise networks using Cisco routers, switches, firewalls, VPN, network management and monitoring systems.
• Deep experience with network architecture, IT infrastructure, IT application technologies and frameworks.
• High‑level expertise in QoS design and implementation.
• Strong hands‑on architect/engineer level experience on Cisco Nexus, 6500, 3800, 3900, 3700, 3500, and 2900 series.
• Hands‑on deployment experience with Python and Ansible.
• Solid experience leading datacenter and WAN transformational network engineering efforts – ACI, SD‑WAN, and AWS cloud.

Functional Skills

• Highly proficient at independently designing and developing quality of service (QoS) configurations for data and voice deployments and helping troubleshoot the most complex data and voice related issues.
• Expert in determining business requirements and providing detailed designs.
• Expert in designing, deploying, migrating, and troubleshooting Cisco ACI and SD‑WAN.
• Expert in configuring, deploying, and troubleshooting F5 local traffic managers (LTMs) / global traffic managers (GTMs).
• High confidence evaluating emerging technologies, identifying needs, and making recommendations for new technologies and vendor solutions based on network vision and strategy.
• Strong Cisco Nexus 7K, 9K expertise and virtualization required.
• High level of skill in network documentation using Visio, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Proven track record of serving as a technical role model.
• Expertise with project delivery methodologies related to network infrastructure.

Foundational Skills

• Communicates effectively.
• Anticipates changing business needs, adjusts priorities accordingly, allocates necessary resources and budget to achieve objectives.
• Equips the business to become an effective competitor in a highly dynamic landscape.
• Considers stakeholder needs and input as well as best practices and industry insights when making strategic decisions.
• Is flexible, decisive, and serves as a trusted advisor to senior leaders.
• Demonstrates effective negotiation and influencing skills.
• Prioritizes and facilitates a culture of continuous improvement and systems thinking.
• Sets the tone for successful collaboration with other business units and corporate entities.
• Creates an environment that fosters communication, transparency, and collaboration.
• Cultivates innovation and values learning as a lifelong professional objective.
• Leads by example, engaging inclusively and with intent.
• Always acts with integrity.
• Analytical thinking.
• Iterative problem solving.
• High skill in coordinating, consensus building, and execution to mitigate risk, issues, and emerging threats in mission‑critical environments.
• High skill in approaching major decisions in a consultative manner with emphasis on delivery.
• Outstanding ability to develop and maintain productive relationships with internal partners and external vendors.
• Ability to support weekend / after‑hours network deployments and escalations to troubleshoot production issues.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with other departments on solutions, system deployment, configuration, and testing for network operations.
• Conduct site surveys to determine anticipated areas of coverage with different components.
• Execute network planning to manage growth and development by monitoring performance, exploring performance improvement opportunities, and identifying future capacity needs; develop technical standards and interface applications; recommend resources to maintain or expand networks.
• Manage acquisition, installation and maintenance of the organization’s LAN, WAN and voice networks; manage LAN and WAN security; provide technical support for LAN/WAN technologies and network systems.
• Develop network configuration specifications, maintenance processes and policies, and designs for point‑to‑point and point‑to‑multipoint, tower‑mounted, and mobile solutions.
• Perform research to identify candidate access points and wireless bridge equipment offerings from vendors; develop, validate, and track requirements for wireless access from remote locations and mobile vehicles.
• Research, evaluate, and select new products and services; recommend enhancements or improvements to existing network systems.
• Monitor deployment and testing processes; troubleshoot network systems; provide technical solutions and/or recommendations for network improvements; resolve network problems.
• Deliver major transformational projects including datacenter reengineering, consolidation, multi‑cloud rationalization and deployments including AWS, Office 365, Cisco ACI, SD‑WAN etc.
• Implement designs and deliver on operational objectives by engineering, evaluating, formulating, testing and implementing plans for current and new network technology.
• Propose strategic plans and reviews to leadership; coordinate plans with senior leaders.
• Prepare and complete action plans.
• Design cost‑effective networks, adhere to MUFG and industry best practices.
• Resolve highly complex problems.
• Identify trends and patterns in audit results; determine network improvements; implement change.
• Evolve long‑term architecture in collaboration with stakeholders, partners and customers; drive development of ongoing strategic vision.
• Drive implementation of proof‑of‑concept and lab testing from concept to delivery with emphasis on emerging technologies.
• Embed information security and risk management principles within culture requiring continuous improvement to complex functions to coordinate security and compliance risks related to information systems and assets.

Certifications

• Required: Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) certification.
• AWS Certified Advanced Networking – a big plus.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a closely‑related discipline, or an equivalent combination of formal education and experience.

Compensation

The typical base pay range for this role is between $200k - $249k depending on job‑related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. The role may also be eligible for discretionary performance‑based bonuses and/or incentive compensation. Additionally, the Total Rewards program provides a competitive benefits package including health and wellness benefits, retirement plans, educational assistance, training programs, income replacement for qualified employees with disabilities, paid maternity and parental bonding leave, paid vacation, sick days, and holidays.

MUFG Benefits Summary

We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws (including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, and California Fair Chance Act) to the extent that an applicant is not subject to statutory disqualification. The major responsibilities listed above are the material job duties of this role.

Equal Opportunity Statement

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and committed to leveraging diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experience of our workforce to create opportunities for our colleagues and our business. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender expression, gender identity, sex, age, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran and military status, disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other status of an individual or their associates or relatives that is protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.

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