IT Engineer - Network

Vivmark Residential exists to set the mark for what home can be. Formed through the merger of AvalonBay Communities and Equity Residential, Vivmark brings together two industry leaders with a shared commitment to excellence, innovation, and delivering exceptional living experiences. Our vision is to be the most trusted and best-performing rental housing company in America - one that continues to get better as it grows. And we’re looking for people who want to help us do it.

As an owner, developer, and manager of more than 180,000 apartment homes in major markets across the US, we have the scale to offer something most companies can’t. At Vivmark, team members move up and across functions, markets, and disciplines, building lasting careers. We invest in team members’ growth, development, and capabilities that make them and us better, and we hold ourselves to the highest standard as an employer.

The best people want to work here. We hope you’re one of them.

Position Overview The IT Network Engineer designs, secures, implements, and maintains a reliable, highly available hybrid network across Vivmark Residential’s datacenters, corporate offices, residential properties, and public cloud environments. This role requires extensive expertise in enterprise routing and switching across Cisco (including Meraki), Juniper, and Arista platforms, along with working knowledge of Palo Alto firewalls, application delivery technologies (F5 Distributed Cloud and Cloudflare), cloud networking (Azure and AWS), and DDI (DNS, DHCP, and IP address management).

The IT Network Engineer incorporates security into network designs and operational decisions, partnering closely with Security Operations to implement network segmentation, traffic inspection, encryption, and access controls. This role also leads assigned infrastructure initiatives, manages load balancing and edge technologies, supports enterprise-wide infrastructure operations, and collaborates with technical counterparts across the merged organization. The engineer anticipates emerging technology trends, including SASE and zero trust networking, and recommends solutions that support current and future business requirements.

Salary: $111,000 $136,000 per year. In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for a discretionary annual bonus of 10.5%. The successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, and qualifications.

Work Schedule: This position requires onsite attendance Monday through Thursday, with remote work permitted on Fridays.

Essential Functions Network Design And Operations

• Designs, configures, and maintains enterprise routing and switching infrastructure across datacenters, corporate offices, and residential properties using Cisco (including Meraki), Arista, and Juniper platforms.
• Manages internal and external routing protocols, including BGP, iBGP, OSPF, and EIGRP, to support multihomed internet connectivity, VRF-based segmentation, and datacenter interconnects.
• Administers wired and wireless networks across corporate offices and residential properties using Juniper Mist, Cisco wireless LAN controllers (WLCs), and Meraki, supporting platform transitions as needed.
• Maintains 802.1X wireless authentication in partnership with the Identity team.
• Administers DNS, DHCP, and IP address management (IPAM) services through Infoblox and supports external DNS services.
• Maintains network monitoring, alerting, and capacity reporting using SolarWinds Orion or equivalent tools, identifying trends and addressing potential issues proactively.

Application Delivery and Edge Services

• Manages internal and internet-facing application delivery, including load balancing through F5 Distributed Cloud (Customer Edge) and application protection and traffic management through Cloudflare, including DNS, WAF, TLS, and tunnels.
• Manages TLS configurations and certificate lifecycles for load-balanced and proxied services in coordination with the Identity team.
• Troubleshoots application delivery issues across edge services, perimeter firewalls, load balancers, and server environments.

Cloud and Hybrid Networking

• Designs, implements, and supports hybrid connectivity between on-premises infrastructure and public cloud environments, including Azure ExpressRoute, VPN gateways, hub-and-spoke virtual networks, Private Link, AWS Direct Connect, and Transit Gate…