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