Network Engineer Jobs in North Carolina

Job Summary/Scope

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Wilson is a city of around 50,000 people located in the heart of eastern North Carolina. We are about an hour from the Research Triangle and the buzz of the Raleigh area, and you can also quickly reach the North Carolina beaches.

The City of Wilson is known for innovation and outstanding service. We have top-rated, nationally accredited police, fire and recreation departments. Our parks and sports facilities are among the best in the nation, and our Vollis Simpson Whirligig Park is a unique and beautiful attraction that hosts concerts, farmers markets and the N.C. Whirligig Festival among other events. Our downtown ballpark proudly serves as the home of the Milwaukee Brewers minor league affiliate. The team celebrated its inaugural Opening Night on April 14, 2026, marking an exciting new chapter for our community and downtown district.

Wilson has the strongest manufacturing base in our part of the state, including tire manufacturing, pharmaceutical and other industries. The Greenlight citywide broadband services help technology-based companies flourish.

In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a best-in-class benefits package that brings additional value to your total compensation.

The hiring range for this position is $85,734.87 (minimum salary) to $118,069.97 (midpoint of range) dependent upon qualifications.

Job Responsibilities

Major Duties

• Administers all City of Wilson enterprise and municipal broadband networks, including high-level architecture design, configuration, and advanced lifecycle maintenance of enterprise Fortinet next-generation firewalls (FortiGate, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer), core routers, switches, SD-WAN routing policies, IPsec site-to-site tunnels, and remote-access SSL-VPN systems.
• Maintains optimal routing with peer ISPs through BGP path manipulation and load balancing over peer links.
• Collaborates on the design and hardening of the City's server environment, including Windows and Linux systems, ensuring strict adherence to baseline security standards and least-privilege architectures.
• Consults with Applications, Systems, and Infrastructure teams to design, evaluate, and enforce granular firewall access policies and network segmentation.
• Establishes, reviews, and executes daily security operational routines, including active monitoring of SIEM dashboards, firewall threat alerts, endpoint security events, and recurring system log reviews.
• Serves as the primary operational lead and escalation authority for cybersecurity incident response; develops containment playbooks, coordinates host isolation during active compromises, and leads root-cause remediation.
• Administers overall network and server security, including coordinating external audits, vulnerability assessments, and managing routine internal penetration and configuration audits.
• Develops, manages, and executes standard operating procedures for legal compliance, including the formal intake, logging, technical preservation, extraction, and fulfillment of legal subpoenas, court orders, law enforcement data requests, and public records inquiries in compliance with CJIS and statutory requirements.
• Serves as technical liaison and advisory representative to external regulatory bodies, state and local cybersecurity working groups (MS-ISAC, NC DIT), regional public safety agencies, and vendor engineering escalations; coordinates cross-functional security initiatives with City department and division heads.
• Collaborates with telecommunications staff on enterprise VoIP and PBX administration, including SIP trunk routing, IVR/auto-attendant architecture, user moves/adds/changes.
• Authors, maintains, and audits comprehensive Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), technical runbooks, disaster recovery procedures, and network topology diagrams in the team knowledge base to eliminate operational single points of failure.
• Deploys, configures, and maintains carrier-grade Optical Line Terminal (OLT) shelves (Calix, Nokia/Alcatel) utilizing GPON and 10G symmetrical XGS-PON technologies; plans and executes migration architectures for the transition to Next-Generation PON (NG-PON2 / 25GS-PON) systems and coexistence optical networks.
• Designs expansions to new and existing FTTH inside plants, including transport equipment, licensing, and capacity planning.
• Administers municipal broadband auxiliary systems, including ETI provisioning servers and Ookla Speedtest appliances.
• Maintains legacy broadband infrastructure systems as assigned or facilitates planned migration to managed platforms.
• Leads technical training and cross-training of Greenlight IT personnel on enterprise networking, perimeter security, and troubleshooting practices.
• Performs scheduled 24/7 on-call engineering duty and responds to critical network emergencies as required.
• Perform all other related duties as assigned.

• Guidelines include department standard operating procedures, city hardware and software policies, and network wiring standards and codes. These guidelines require judgment, selection, and interpretation in application.

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Minimum Qualifications

Education/Experience Requirements

• Baccalaureate degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Network Engineering, or a closely related field, combined with three to five (3-5) years of progressively responsible enterprise networking and perimeter security experience (or an equivalent combination of education and experience).
• Must maintain at least one active professional-level certification in enterprise networking or cybersecurity. Preferred certifications include: Fortinet Certified Professional (FCP) in Network Security / NSE 4+, Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP Enterprise or Security), CompTIA CySA+ / CASP+, SSCP, or CISSP.
• Possession of or ability to readily obtain a valid North Carolina Driver's License.

• Advanced knowledge of carrier-grade FTTH PON architectures, optical power budgets, coexistence elements (CEx), GPON and XGS-PON wavelengths, and next-generation PON deployment and migration standards.
• Demonstrated hands-on expertise with Fortinet enterprise platforms (FortiOS, FortiGate NGFW, FortiManager, and FortiAnalyzer).
• Practical understanding of criminal justice data standards (CJIS), subpoena data extraction methods, and municipal public records compliance.
• Working knowledge of VoIP telephony systems, SIP trunk signaling, and E911 emergency locator databases.
• Advanced routing competency (BGP, OSPF), VLAN design, and carrier-grade FTTH GPON infrastructure (Calix / Alcatel).
• Skill in authoring clear, scannable technical documentation, topology diagrams, and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).

Work Environment/Physical Demands

• The work is typically performed in an office, computer room, stockroom, or warehouse, and occasionally outdoors in cold or inclement weather, while intermittently standing, walking, bending, crouching or stooping.
• The employee may be exposed to noise, dust, dirt, grease, machinery with moving parts, and irritating chemicals.
• The employee frequently lifts light and heavy objects, climbs ladders, uses tools or equipment requiring a high degree of dexterity, and must distinguish between shades of color.