Lead Engineer, IT Network

Lead Engineer, IT Network

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%)

• 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.

Required Qualifications

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.

Working Conditions

• Normal office working conditions

• Must be able to work some nights and weekends

• Occasional travel required

Physical Requirements

• Lifting 50+ pounds

• Sitting

• Standing (not walking)

• Reaching overhead

• Walking

• Kneeling/Stooping/Bending

• Driving a vehicle

Disclaimer

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.

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