You’ll Love It Here
Join us as a Network Engineer III, where you will play a key role in leading, designing, and evolving large-scale enterprise network infrastructure across corporate, retail, and data center environments. This role blends advanced technical expertise, project leadership, and cross-team collaboration.
You will act as a technical authority, helping guide architectural decisions, improve operational maturity, and support multi-year modernization initiatives as well as supporting our customers operationally. You’ll influence standards, tooling direction, and best practices while empowering the broader team.
What You’ll Be Working On
Network Operations & Technical Leadership
- Provide senior-level support for daily network operations, including firewalls, security rules, routing, switching, and complex connectivity issues
- Serve as a technical escalation point for high-impact or complex incidents, as well as leading root cause analysis and driving long-term fixes
- Guide junior and mid-level engineers through troubleshooting, design reviews, and operational best practices
- Support our Azure cloud networking environment
- Partner closely with Incident, and Change Management teams to improve stability and operational processes,
Strategy & Design
- Lead or influence network design decisions for corporate, retail, cloud, and data center environments
- Contribute to the long-term network roadmap, including lifecycle planning, scalability, resiliency, and technology selection
- Act as a trusted technical advisor to stakeholders and product teams during planning and execution of initiatives
- Review and approve technical designs, standards, and implementation approaches
Infrastructure Projects & Delivery
- Provide technical leadership for major infrastructure projects including retail and datacenter upgrades, Wi-Fi modernization, DNS refresh, and hardware migrations.
- Support stakeholder-driven initiatives and modernization efforts
- Coordinate with vendors and internal teams to ensure successful project delivery
Monitoring, Observability & Operational Maturity
- Support improvements to network monitoring, observability, and alerting strategies to support proactive issue detection
- Use insights from monitoring tools to proactively identify risks, trends, and optimization opportunities
- Ensure monitoring tools are effectively used to support operational decision-making
Security & Compliance
- Ensure security standards are followed across network platforms
- Lead planning and execution of network OS upgrades, patches, and compliance initiatives
- Partner with security teams to address vulnerabilities and risk remediation
Automation & Process Improvement
- Support the team evolution toward more efficient and automated workflows
- Identify opportunities where automation can improve operational consistency, efficiency and reliability
- Review, guide, and support automation approaches created by larger team
What We’re Looking For
Experience & Expertise
- 5+ years supporting large-scale enterprise network environments
- 5+ years working with firewall and security technologies (e.g., IPSEC, GRE, UTM, IDS/IPS)
- 4+ years with routing and switching technologies (e.g., BGP, OSPF, VPC, VSS, STP, MPLS, Load Balancing)
- 5+ years experience with products including Azure, Fortinet, Juniper Cisco, F5, and Infoblox
- 4+ years experience with Automation tools including Python, Ansible, or GitHub
- 3+ year experience with monitoring tools like SolarWinds and(or) Dynatrace
Leadership & Growth Mindset
- Demonstrated ability to lead technically, influence decisions, and mentor others
- Comfortable owning outcomes, not just tasks
- Strong communication skills with the ability to lead discussions with technical and non-technical stakeholders
Annualized Compensation Range
$102,000.00 - $107,000.00This job is eligible for a company performance bonus in addition to the compensation range above.
Starting pay offered will consider skills and experience. Your pay can grow as you build your career with us.
Suite 102 - 425 West 6th Avenue, Vancouver, BC V5Y 1L3
This posting is for a vacancy.
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What We Do
At Best Buy, millions of customers rely on us to deliver the technology they need to learn, work, and stay connected. As a member of the Digital, Analytics & Technology team, we contribute to solving the ever-changing technological challenges of both our customers and our fellow employees. We are a collaborative, agile team that empowers its people by encouraging diversity of thought and passion while providing strong leadership and mentorship.
We enrich lives through technology by leveraging our unique combination of tech expertise and human touch to meet our customers’ everyday needs, whether they come to us online, visit our stores or invite us into their homes. With over 1,000 stores and over 100,000 employees in the United States and Canada, we solve key human needs in the areas of productivity, security, health, entertainment, connectivity, and more.
Why Work With Us
Millions of customers rely on Best Buy to deliver the technology they need to learn, work, and stay connected. As a member of the Digital, Analytics & Technology team, you will contribute to solving the ever-changing technological challenges of both our customers and your peers. Work with a collaborative team that empowers its people.
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