What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Network Engineer position at Dimensional Fund Advisors LP?
Job Description:
Dimensional is a global investment firm guided by deep convictions about the power of capital markets. We are a leader in applying advanced financial science to equity and fixed income investment strategies. By employing a rigorous and systematic investment approach, we seek to capture what the market offers in all its dimensions.
For more than 30 years, we have translated research into real-world investment solutions for clients. Our clients include financial advisory firms, pension funds, retirement plans, college savings plans, insurance companies, endowments and foundations, and sovereign wealth funds. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, with offices around the world, Dimensional manages over $650 billion globally.
Who We're Looking For
Dimensional's Technology team operates with rigor and pragmatism. We're looking for a Senior Network Engineer to join our Platform Operations and Network Engineering team.
This is a senior individual contributor role for an engineer who:
Our environment today is largely operations-driven. This role will be instrumental in helping us mature our automation capabilities over time while continuing to support a high-availability production network.
What You Might Work On:
You'll work across both network operations and automation-driven improvement initiatives. Network Infrastructure Engineering & Operations include:
Network Automation & Modernization:
Platform & Cross-Team Collaboration:
Operational Excellence:
Minimum Qualifications:
Required: Network Automation Background
We are looking for someone who has previous experience implementing network automation, even if coming from a more mature environment.
Examples include:
Preferred Qualifications:
Additional Notes:
#LI-Remote
Dimensional offers a variety of programs to help take care of you, your family, and your career, including comprehensive benefits, educational initiatives, and special celebrations of our history, culture, and growth.
It is the policy of the Company to provide equal opportunity for all employees and applicants. The Company recruits, hires, trains, promotes, compensates, and administers all personnel actions without regard to actual or perceived race, color, religion, religious practice, creed, sex, sex stereotyping, pregnancy (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), caregiver status, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender identity, national origin, age, mental or physical disability, ancestry, medical condition, marital status, familial status, domestic partnership status, military or veteran status or service, unemployment status, citizenship status or alienage, sexual orientation, status as a victim of domestic violence, status as a victim of stalking, status as a victim of sex offenses, genetic information, political activities or recreational activities, arrest or conviction record, salary history, natural hairstyle or any other status protected by applicable law except as otherwise required or permitted by law or regulation applicable to the Company or its affiliates.
Dimensional is a global investment firm guided by deep convictions about the power of capital markets. We are a leader in applying advanced financial science to equity and fixed income investment strategies. By employing a rigorous and systematic investment approach, we seek to capture what the market offers in all its dimensions.
For more than 30 years, we have translated research into real-world investment solutions for clients. Our clients include financial advisory firms, pension funds, retirement plans, college savings plans, insurance companies, endowments and foundations, and sovereign wealth funds. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, with offices around the world, Dimensional manages over $650 billion globally.
Who We're Looking For
Dimensional's Technology team operates with rigor and pragmatism. We're looking for a Senior Network Engineer to join our Platform Operations and Network Engineering team.
This is a senior individual contributor role for an engineer who:
- Is comfortable operating a global production network
- Understands how modern network automation should work
- Is motivated to help the organization evolve toward more automated, reliable operations
Our environment today is largely operations-driven. This role will be instrumental in helping us mature our automation capabilities over time while continuing to support a high-availability production network.
What You Might Work On:
You'll work across both network operations and automation-driven improvement initiatives. Network Infrastructure Engineering & Operations include:
- Support and help evolve Dimensional's global network infrastructure, including:
- Routing, switching, campus and data center networks
- WAN and SD-WAN connectivity
- Remote access and VPN
- Enterprise wireless
- Next-generation firewalls (Palo Alto)
- Load balancing / ADC platforms (F5 and similar)
- Cisco-based telephony and voice network infrastructure
- Troubleshoot complex network issues across multiple domains and geographies
- Work with carriers and service providers to resolve faults and support upgrades
- Participate in a 24/7 production environment and shared on-call rotation
- Contribute to incident response, root cause analysis, and long-term reliability improvements
Network Automation & Modernization:
- Help identify opportunities to reduce manual operational work through automation
- Contribute to building and improving network automation tooling and workflows
- Work with Infrastructure as Code concepts and Git-based workflows for network changes
- Help the team adopt Network as Code and Operations as Code practices over time
- Support development of automation for:
- Device provisioning and lifecycle management
- Configuration management and drift detection
- Network configuration validation and compliance checks
Platform & Cross-Team Collaboration:
- Support networking for hybrid infrastructure environments, including on-premises systems and public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud Platform)
- Work with platform teams supporting virtualized and containerized environments (NSX-T, OKD / OpenShift / Kubernetes)
- Partner with security teams on segmentation, firewall policy, and access design
- Provide guidance to other teams on network services and operational best practices
Operational Excellence:
- Improve monitoring, observability, and network health visibility
- Build and maintain runbooks, documentation, and knowledge base articles
- Help improve operational safety, repeatability, and scalability
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
- 7 years of hands-on network engineering experience in enterprise environments
- Strong experience operating 24/7 production network infrastructure
- Solid background with Cisco routing and switching (BGP, OSPF, VLANs, STP, etc.)
- Experience supporting enterprise wireless networks
- Experience with next-generation firewalls (Palo Alto preferred)
- Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work across technical teams
Required: Network Automation Background
We are looking for someone who has previous experience implementing network automation, even if coming from a more mature environment.
Examples include:
- Using Python and network APIs to manage devices or workflows
- Experience with tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or similar
- Familiarity with Git-based workflows for infrastructure changes
- Experience implementing validation, compliance, or drift detection through automation
Preferred Qualifications:
- CCNP (Enterprise/Security/Data Center) or equivalent experience; DevNet is a plus
- Experience with SD-WAN platforms
- Experience with F5 load balancing
- Experience with NSX-T
- Experience with OKD / OpenShift / Kubernetes networking
- Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform networking
- Experience with Cisco ISE, MPLS, remote access VPN, or enterprise voice environments
- Experience in the financial services industry is a plus
Additional Notes:
- Participation in an on-call rotation is required
- After-hours or weekend work will be required to support production needs
- Occasional work in network or comms rooms may be required
#LI-Remote
Dimensional offers a variety of programs to help take care of you, your family, and your career, including comprehensive benefits, educational initiatives, and special celebrations of our history, culture, and growth.
It is the policy of the Company to provide equal opportunity for all employees and applicants. The Company recruits, hires, trains, promotes, compensates, and administers all personnel actions without regard to actual or perceived race, color, religion, religious practice, creed, sex, sex stereotyping, pregnancy (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), caregiver status, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender identity, national origin, age, mental or physical disability, ancestry, medical condition, marital status, familial status, domestic partnership status, military or veteran status or service, unemployment status, citizenship status or alienage, sexual orientation, status as a victim of domestic violence, status as a victim of stalking, status as a victim of sex offenses, genetic information, political activities or recreational activities, arrest or conviction record, salary history, natural hairstyle or any other status protected by applicable law except as otherwise required or permitted by law or regulation applicable to the Company or its affiliates.