Post Holdings

Sr. Network Engineer

Post Holdings  •  $106k - $157k/yr  •  Lakeville, MN (Onsite)  •  2 hours ago
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Job Description

Brand: ['Post Consumer Brands']

Categories: Information Technology

Locations: Lakeville, Minnesota

Position Type: Regular Full-Time

Req ID: 32946

Business Unit Overview

Headquartered in Lakeville, Minn., Post Consumer Brands, a business unit of Post Holdings, Inc., is dedicated to providing people and their pets with delicious food choices for every taste and budget. The company's portfolio includes beloved brands such as Honey Bunches of Oats™, PEBBLES™, Grape-Nuts™ and Malt-O-Meal™ cereal and Peter Pan™ peanut butter, as well as Rachael Ray® Nutrish™, Kibbles 'n Bits™ and 9Lives™ dog and cat food. Post also provides private label solutions to customers in pet food, cereal, nut butters and granola. As a company committed to high standards of quality and to our values, we are driven by one idea: To make lives better by making delicious food accessible for all. For more information about our brands, visit www.postconsumerbrands.com and follow us on LinkedIn or Facebook for the latest news.

Location Description

Post Consumer Brands corporate headquarters in Lakeville, Minnesota, is about 20 miles south of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Lakeville has all the benefits of smaller town living with access to everything a large metropolitan area has to offer. Join more than 400 team members collaborating on the two-building campus to help put breakfast on the tables of millions of consumers in North America.

Responsibilities

Senior Network Engineer

As a Senior Network Engineer, you will design, build, secure, and support the enterprise network services that connect corporate offices, manufacturing facilities, distribution locations, data centers, cloud platforms, and third-party environments. You will bring hands-on expertise across LAN, WAN, wireless, firewalls, secure remote access, internet connectivity, cloud networking, and network monitoring.

Working across infrastructure, cybersecurity, applications, manufacturing/OT, and business teams, you will help deliver reliable, resilient, and secure connectivity. Your work will reduce recurring issues, strengthen network visibility, and support modernization, cloud adoption, site integrations, and technology refresh initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot enterprise LAN, WAN, wireless, internet, VPN, and cloud connectivity.
  • Support routers, switches, wireless infrastructure, firewalls, SD-WAN, secure web access, private application access, and Zero Trust Network Access technologies.
  • Maintain network availability, performance, capacity, and resiliency across corporate, manufacturing, warehouse, data center, cloud, and third-party environments.
  • Resolve complex routing, switching, latency, DNS, DHCP, wireless, firewall, and application communication issues; provide escalation support during incidents and outages.
  • Implement network security controls with cybersecurity partners, including segmentation, firewall policies, secure remote connectivity, vulnerability remediation, and audit support.
  • Develop scalable network designs, reference architectures, configuration standards, and technical recommendations based on security, supportability, performance, and cost.
  • Partner with infrastructure, cloud, security, application, and manufacturing/OT teams on hybrid connectivity, site integrations, acquisitions, expansions, and technology refreshes.
  • Use monitoring, analytics, telemetry, configuration management, and automation to improve reliability, consistency, reporting, deployment speed, and lifecycle management.
  • Maintain network diagrams, inventories, configurations, IP addressing, circuits, operating procedures, and troubleshooting documentation.
  • Coordinate with telecommunications carriers, managed service providers, hardware vendors, and project teams from planning and testing through transition to operations.

Why You’ll Love This Role

  • Own high-impact network solutions that connect a diverse enterprise spanning offices, plants, distribution sites, data centers, and cloud environments.
  • Help shape secure, modern connectivity through cloud networking, SD-WAN, Zero Trust, segmentation, automation, and observability.
  • Work across technical and business teams where your expertise can improve reliability, simplify operations, and influence enterprise standards.
  • Balance hands-on engineering and troubleshooting with architecture, modernization, and continuous improvement work.

Qualifications

Location Requirements:

  • Hybrid (2-3 days/week) at our Corporate Headquarters in Lakeville, MN.

Education

  • Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

Required Qualifications

  • 7+ years of enterprise network engineering or network administration experience.
  • Strong knowledge of network segmentation, routing and switching, wireless networking, and network security concepts.
  • Experience supporting enterprise switches, routers, wireless networks, and firewalls.
  • Experience troubleshooting complex network, security, and application connectivity issues.
  • Understanding of high availability, redundancy, disaster recovery, network resiliency, and capacity planning.
  • Strong technical documentation and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with Cisco networking technologies, Cisco Meraki, Palo Alto Networks firewalls, Zscaler, SD-WAN, Zero Trust networking, and Microsoft Azure networking.
  • Experience with network monitoring and performance-management platforms, firewall policy management, or IT/OT segmentation in manufacturing environments.
  • Experience automating network tasks with PowerShell, Python, APIs, infrastructure-as-code, or configuration-management tools.
  • Relevant certifications such as CCNA, CCNP, Palo Alto Networks, Zscaler, Microsoft Azure, or equivalent.

Success in This Role

  • Approaches complex problems with strong analysis, structured troubleshooting, sound judgment, and a security-first mindset.
  • Takes ownership, manages competing priorities, and follows through on incidents, projects, documentation, and continuous-improvement opportunities.
  • Builds effective partnerships across infrastructure, cybersecurity, applications, manufacturing/OT, vendors, and business teams.
  • Communicates technical concepts clearly to technical and nontechnical audiences and adapts as networking technologies evolve.

Ready to Make an Impact?

Bring your network engineering expertise to complex, business-critical environments where secure, reliable connectivity matters every day. Apply to help strengthen the platforms, standards, and partnerships that keep Post Consumer Brands connected and moving forward.

The pay range for this position is $106,019 - $156,909 per year.

Post Holdings

About Post Holdings

Post Holdings, Inc., headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, is a consumer packaged goods holding company operating in the center-of-the-store, refrigerated, foodservice, food ingredient, pet food and private brand food categories.

Through its Post Consumer Brands business, Post is a leader in the North American ready-to-eat cereal category offering a broad portfolio including recognized brands such as Honey Bunches of Oats®, Pebbles™, Great Grains® and Malt-O-Meal® bag cereal. Post also is a leader in the United Kingdom ready-to-eat cereal category with the iconic Weetabix® brand.

As leader in refrigerated foods, Post brings innovative, value-added egg and refrigerated potato products to the foodservice channel and the retail refrigerated side dish category, offering side dishes and egg, sausage and cheese products through the Bob Evans®, Better’n Eggs®, Simply Potatoes® and Crystal Farms® brands.

Post participates in the private brand food category through its investment in 8th Avenue Food & Provisions, a leading, private brand centric, consumer products holding company. For more information, visit www.postholdings.com.

Industry
Food & Beverage
Company Size
1,001-5,000 employees
Headquarters
St Louis, Missouri
Year Founded
Unknown
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