What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Engineer, IT Network position at Tractor Supply Company?
Overall Job Summary
This position is responsible for designing, engineering, and supporting a complex enterprise Local Area (LAN), Wide Area (WAN), and Wireless (WLAN) network.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities (Min 5%)
Experience: 10 years experience in networking and telecommunications.
Education: Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering. Any suitable combination of education and experience will be considered.
Professional Certifications: Technical Certification CCNA, CCNP, CCIE, is preferred.
Preferred Knowledge, Skills Or Abilities
This job description represents an overview of the responsibilities for the above referenced position. It is not intended to represent a comprehensive list of responsibilities. A team member should perform all duties as assigned by his/ her supervisor.
Company Info
At Tractor Supply and Petsense by Tractor Supply, our Team Members are the heart of our success. Their dedication, passion, and hard work drive everything we do, and we are committed to supporting them with a comprehensive and accessible total reward package. We understand the evolving needs of our Team Members and their families, and we strive to offer meaningful, competitive, and sustainable benefits that support their well-being today and in the future.
Our benefits extend beyond medical, dental, and vision coverage, including company-paid life and disability insurance, paid parental leave, tuition reimbursement, and family planning resources such as adoption and surrogacy assistance, for all full-time Team Members and all part-time Team Members. Part time new hires gain eligibility for TSC Benefits by averaging at least 15 hours per week during their 90-day lookback period. The lookback period starts the first of the month following the date of hire. If the 15-hour requirement was met, the benefits eligibility date will be the first day of the month following 4 months of continuous service.
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This position is responsible for designing, engineering, and supporting a complex enterprise Local Area (LAN), Wide Area (WAN), and Wireless (WLAN) network.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities (Min 5%)
- Work with both internal and external customers to understand business requirements and needs.
- Design maintainable solutions to meet business and compliance requirements through creation and application of best practices to ensure consistency, maintainability, and compliance.
- Participate in 24x7 on call rotations.
- Deploy new solutions and configurations.
- Ensure service availability through creation and delivery of KPI reports.
- Maintain and manage technical relationships with vendors.
- Discover current technical standards and best practices (R&D).
- Provide technical leadership, mentor other team members, and leads project.
- Deploy patches, updates, and configuration changes.
- Create and document engineering standards.
Experience: 10 years experience in networking and telecommunications.
Education: Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering. Any suitable combination of education and experience will be considered.
Professional Certifications: Technical Certification CCNA, CCNP, CCIE, is preferred.
Preferred Knowledge, Skills Or Abilities
- Superior knowledge in enterprise LANs, WANs, WLANs including routers, switches, network load balancers and wireless access points.
- Superior knowledge in layer 3 routing protocols: OSPF, RIP, BGP, and IGRP.
- Superior Layer 2 and Layer 3 protocol troubleshooting ability, specifically with using protocol analyzers and/or sniffers.
- Superior knowledge of information security risks and counter-measures for networking equipment.
- Superior knowledge of Payment Card Industry (PCI) network requirements adherence.
- Superior knowledge of Cisco Unified Communications Systems.
- Superior knowledge of firewalls, data encryption, intrusion detection systems, anti-virus software, and other industry-standard techniques and practices.
- Superior TCP/IP packet analysis ability.
- Proficiency in MS Office Suite.
- Normal office working conditions
- Must be able to work some nights and weekends
- Occasional travel required
- Lifting 50 pounds
- Sitting
- Standing (not walking)
- Reaching overhead
- Walking
- Kneeling/Stooping/Bending
- Driving a vehicle
This job description represents an overview of the responsibilities for the above referenced position. It is not intended to represent a comprehensive list of responsibilities. A team member should perform all duties as assigned by his/ her supervisor.
Company Info
At Tractor Supply and Petsense by Tractor Supply, our Team Members are the heart of our success. Their dedication, passion, and hard work drive everything we do, and we are committed to supporting them with a comprehensive and accessible total reward package. We understand the evolving needs of our Team Members and their families, and we strive to offer meaningful, competitive, and sustainable benefits that support their well-being today and in the future.
Our benefits extend beyond medical, dental, and vision coverage, including company-paid life and disability insurance, paid parental leave, tuition reimbursement, and family planning resources such as adoption and surrogacy assistance, for all full-time Team Members and all part-time Team Members. Part time new hires gain eligibility for TSC Benefits by averaging at least 15 hours per week during their 90-day lookback period. The lookback period starts the first of the month following the date of hire. If the 15-hour requirement was met, the benefits eligibility date will be the first day of the month following 4 months of continuous service.
Please visit this link for more specific information about the benefits and leave policies applicable to the position you’re applying for.