Network Team Lead

Job Details

• Req #: 15495 , Fee: 20.00% Percentage Computed On Base Salary
• Location:
  
  Cleveland, OH
• Salary: $112,000 to $120,000
• Target: $115,000
• Relocation Assistance:
  Yes
• Sponsor/Transfer H-1B or H-2:
  No
• Travel: 10%
• Bonus: 10%
• Honor Period: 6 Months

This position is responsible for planning, designing, implementing, monitoring, and maintaining the network and telephony infrastructure. The role requires technical leadership and management of a team of network engineers and administrators.

The position requires strong technical knowledge of network and telephony principles, along with hands-on experience. The individual must be familiar with best practices for implementation and ongoing operations of an enterprise landscape.

Responsibilities include:

• Providing leadership and direction to team members
• Managing the team to resolve problem tickets for a 24x7x365 network
• Driving operational and proactive monitoring of corporate WAN/LAN/SAN/MPLS/IPS/Wireless networks
• Capacity planning and analyzing enterprise site bandwidth requirements
• Executing and demonstrating sound project management disciplines
• Maintaining and developing project plans for managing resource workload and budgeting
• Designing, engineering, implementing, and managing complex networks and systems
• Ensuring disaster recovery and planned testing activities are performed
• Maintaining documentation of relevant specifications, systems, and procedures
• Developing and enforcing processes, procedures, and standards
• Analyzing network activity to discover and prevent systematic errors
• Managing the support team and providing hands-on assistance when required
• Implementing and administering Site-to-site VPN and remote client VPN access
• Enforcing network standards for global hardware and software purchases
• Managing the corporate VoIP and collaboration suite
• Managing corporate contracts for hardware, software, and teleco maintenance
• Participating in creating annual budgets and project portfolios
• Providing leadership in perimeter security

Experience required:

• 5+ years of experience managing a network team of administrators and engineers
• Advanced experience with Sniffer and/or related analysis tools
• Cisco network certifications or demonstrated experience (e.g., CCNA, CCNP, or CCSP)
• Good working knowledge of structured copper and fiber cabling infrastructure standards
• Extensive understanding of VPNs and MPLS networks and their management
• Expert hands-on knowledge of TCP/IP protocol stacks, Ethernet, FCoE, IPS/IDS, DNS, DHCP, web security, VPN, and NAC
• Expert knowledge of Cisco IOS with hands-on experience configuring Cisco routers, switches, and firewalls
• Strong experience with Cisco network design and implementation in a highly virtualized enterprise environment
• Excellent troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and test planning skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal, organizational, customer service, communications, and presentation skills

Education required:

Bachelor's degree in a related IT field.

All information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.