Lead Network Engineer

Job Summary:

Our client is seeking a Lead Network Engineer who develops the operational vision and direction for the team in collaboration with the Network Operations managers. This is a hybrid role located in Columbus, OH.

Duties:

Make decisions of a global, strategic nature by analyzing complex data systems and incorporating knowledge of other lines of spearheads complex programs that span multiple inter-organizational units

Lead in identifying critical, high pay-off technology strategies and prioritizes team efforts accordingly

Responsible for coaching and mentoring less experienced team members

Provide Level 3/4 engineering support for the corporate enterprise network

Maintain current professional and technical skills

Keep abreast of current and emerging technologies, how they integrate and drive value

Perform advanced break and fix troubleshooting and mentors junior engineers

Provide failure or root cause analysis when required

Resolve the most complex issues in the environment with little to no supervision, relying on his/her ability to pull together technical resources to gather accurate information to provide data driven solutions

Provide after hours and on-call support as needed

Support the development and improvement of technical engineering documentation in accordance

Author operational documentation and knowledge base articles of known issues and solutions

Perform other duties as assigned

Desired Skills/Experience:

Bachelor’s Degree

10+ years of relevant experience

Critical thinking skills, must be a self-starter, able to direct activities of the team, dependable and reliable

Possesses advanced knowledge of business application and understands network triggers and execute appropriate workflows

Demonstrated ability to engineer reliability through automated response

Experience automating workflows to troubleshoot, integrate systems, and eliminate toil

Knowledge and experience with core network automation skills: Python, JSON, Linux, Java, DevOps, and Git

Extensive infrastructure, applications and security knowledge and experience

Ability to learn fast, adapt to new technology

Embrace and focus on emerging technology and evangelize to the rest of the team

Experience with cloud technologies such as Azure, AWS or Google Cloud

Experience in AWS CloudFormation, AWS EC2, VPC, S3 and similar technologies

Experience with database technologies and other data services technologies

Experience with any programming language: C, C++, Java, Python or C#.

Experience supporting complex production network environments

Experience with Cisco and Palo Alto Firewalls, Proxies, F5 LTM/GTM/ASM, Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI/MSO), Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE), Cisco SD-WAN, Cisco DNAC and Infoblox DNS/DHCP

Benefits:

Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance Plans

401K offered