Senior Network Engineer

Senior Network Engineer – Contract-to-Hire

Location: St. Louis, MO

Employment Type: Contract-to-Hire

LRS Consulting Services is seeking an experienced Senior Network Engineer for a Contract-to-Hire opportunity with one of our valued client partners in St. Louis, MO.

This is an exciting opportunity to take ownership of a distributed enterprise network supporting approximately 50 locations across the U.S. and Canada. The ideal candidate brings strong hands-on expertise with Cisco Meraki and networking technologies, along with the ability to communicate effectively with business leaders and technical teams.

You’ll play a key role in supporting new site launches, office expansions, infrastructure upgrades, network optimization, and ongoing improvements to network reliability and performance.

What You’ll Do

• Support, optimize, and troubleshoot a Cisco/Meraki enterprise network environment
• Partner with business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into effective technical solutions
• Work directly with division CEOs, office leaders, and business users on office expansions, new locations, connectivity needs, and technology upgrades
• Lead and support office expansions, hardware refreshes, firmware upgrades, and network configuration changes
• Design and implement solutions involving QoS, redundancy, failover, and high availability
• Develop and enhance proactive network monitoring to identify and resolve issues before they impact end users
• Configure, monitor, and support network infrastructure in Azure
• Support NAC (Network Access Control) solutions and related network security initiatives
• Work within established IT service management processes, including ServiceNow ticketing and workflows
• Participate in network cutovers, maintenance windows, and infrastructure changes, including occasional weekend work
• Support environments ranging from smaller offices to larger, more complex enterprise locations
• Help ensure network connectivity and infrastructure support AV and conferencing environments when needed

What You’ll Bring

• 5+ years of network engineering experience, preferably in an enterprise environment
• 5+ years of experience supporting Cisco Meraki networks and VPN technologies
• Hands-on experience supporting wired and wireless networks serving 200+ users
• Experience deploying network infrastructure from initial design and implementation through production use
• Experience monitoring and configuring networks in Azure
• Experience configuring and managing NAC solutions
• Strong knowledge of high availability, QoS, network troubleshooting, and day-to-day network operations
• Ability to explain technical issues, solutions, and tradeoffs clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience with ServiceNow or a similar ITSM platform
• Experience supporting multi-location environments, including office builds, expansions, and infrastructure changes
• Strong verbal and written English communication skills
• Willingness to participate in occasional weekend maintenance or cutover activities

Nice to Have

• Portnox experience
• Experience supporting AV and video conferencing environments from a network/connectivity perspective
• Experience leading or supporting large-scale site deployments and infrastructure refreshes

Why Join This Opportunity?

This role offers the opportunity to work on a diverse, enterprise-scale network environment where your technical expertise will have a direct impact on business operations. You’ll collaborate with senior business leaders, influence network solutions, and help shape a reliable and scalable infrastructure across multiple locations.

Ready to take your network engineering career to the next level? Apply today! If you have the enterprise networking experience and business-facing communication skills we’re looking for, we’d love to hear from you.