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