Associate Network Engineer

About Us

American Century Investments® is a leading global asset manager with over 65 years of experience helping a broad base of clients achieve their financial goals. Our expertise spans global equities and fixed income, multi-asset strategies, ETFs, and private investments.

Privately controlled and independent, we focus solely on investment management. But there’s an unexpected side to us, too. We direct over 40% of our profits every year—more than $2 billion since 2000—to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research. Our ongoing financial support drives the Institute’s breakthrough work and mission of defeating life-threatening diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s. So, the better we do for our clients, the more we can do for everyone.

All 1,400 of us across the globe are inspired every day by the unique difference our hard work can make in so many lives. It shows in the curiosity we bring to every initiative, the deep relationships we build with our clients, and the way we treat each other in the hallway. If you’re excited to learn more about us, we can’t wait to learn more about you.

Role Summary

Are you looking for a chance to work on an innovative and experienced network engineering team? Do you have hands-on network infrastructure experience and a passion for driving digital transformation?

We are hiring a Network Engineer to augment our Network Services team. You will be an integral part of a team that delivers the connectivity and critical infrastructure that powers our firm’s operations. As we modernize and evolve our network architecture, you’ll play a key role in designing, building, and maintaining scalable, secure, and future-ready network solutions.

This hybrid position will be based out of our Kansas City, MO office.

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship, now or in the future.

How You Will Make an Impact

Collaborate with other network engineers to maintain the network infrastructure for our global enterprise

Design, deploy, and maintain critical network solutions including LAN, WAN, wireless, remote access, and firewalls with a focus on scalability, automation, and cloud integration

Participate in product evaluation, selection, and deployment of emerging technologies and transformative technologies (e.g., SD-WAN, SASE, Zero Trust)

Drive innovation by bringing forward thoughtful, automation-driven network infrastructure solutions

Share your creative mind, and collaborate with teammates, business owners, enterprise architects, developers, service providers, and management

Research emerging network technology, applications, and integration to continuously modernize and optimize the network infrastructure

Collaborate with cross-functional teams on network requests, implementation, and network security transformation initiatives

Address raised network issues and outages by participating in a rotating on-call schedule and problem management process

What You Bring to the Team (Required)

Minimum of 1-year hands-on experience in a network engineering role

A degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems (MIS), Engineering, or equivalent professional experience

IT experience in a technical and analytical role

Familiarity with various operating system command line tools including Linux and Windows

Excellent documentation, communication, and customer service skills

Familiarity with enterprise firewall administration, and deployment

Knowledge of enterprise IP Address Management (DHCP/DNS/IPAM)

Routing and switching protocol knowledge and experience

Experience in configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting site-to-site and remote access VPNs

Familiarity with network automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Python, Ansible, or Terraform

Understanding of cloud-native networking and hybrid cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP)

Detail oriented with superb interpersonal skills to present thoughts and ideas to partners

A self-starter, who embraces change, is intellectually curious and not afraid to ask “why” and “what if”

Demonstrates the American Century Investments Winning Behaviors: Client Focused, Courageous and Accountable, Collaborative, Curious and Adaptable, Competitively Driven

Additional Assets (Preferred)

Experience with Palo Alto firewall administration

Understanding of network automation frameworks, APIs, and DevOps workflows

Cisco wireless, routing, and switching experience including Wireless Lan Controllers, IOS-XE, and/or NX-OS

Exposure to Software Defined Networking (ex. Cisco ACI, Cisco SD-Access, and/or Cisco SD-WAN)

Demonstrate effective approach to network and system troubleshooting

Understanding of security-first design principles and compliance-driven network architecture

The above statements are not intended to be a complete list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required.

What We Offer

Competitive compensation package with bonus plan

Generous PTO and competitive benefits

401k with 5% company match plus annual performance-based discretionary contribution

Tuition reimbursement, formal mentorship program, live and online learning

Learn more about our benefits and perks.

Employees are required to be in the office on a scheduled frequency. Adherence to this schedule is essential to fulfilling the expectations of the role.

American Century Investments is committed to complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act and all other applicable Equal Employment Opportunity laws and regulations. As such, American Century strives to provide a reasonable accommodation to any qualified individual under the ADA to perform essential job functions.

We encourage people of all backgrounds to join us on our mission. If you require reasonable accommodation for any aspect of the recruitment process, please send a request to . All requests for accommodation will be addressed as confidentially as practicable.

American Century Investments believes all individuals are entitled to equal employment opportunity and advancement opportunities without regard to race, religious creed, color, sex, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age for individuals forty years of age and older, military and veteran status, sexual orientation, and any other basis protected by applicable federal, state and local laws. ACI does not discriminate or adopt any policy that discriminates against an individual or any group of individuals on any of these bases.

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