Lead Network Engineer

Lead Network Engineer

Job

Location Raleigh, North Carolina / Morrisville, North Carolina, United States

Business The Walt Disney Company (Corporate)

Date posted Apr. 23, 2026

At Disney, we’re storytellers. We make the impossible, possible. The Walt Disney Company (TWDC) is a world‑class entertainment and technological leader. Our mission is to deliver technology solutions that align to business strategies while enabling enterprise efficiency and promoting cross‑company collaborative innovation. The role supports the Enterprise Technology mission by enhancing consumer experiences, enabling business growth, and advancing operational excellence.

• Design, implement, and support purpose‑built networks as the technical leader for the network engineering and operations team.
• Provide peer approvals, technical guidance, and Tier 3 escalation support to the network engineering and operations teams.
• Partner closely with stakeholders across the organization to ideate, develop, and implement innovative technology solutions that enable business unit capability needs.
• Mentor team members in technical aptitude, soft skills, risk analysis, and relationship management.
• Perform relationship management across all levels of the business unit and network services teams.
• Directly participate in and oversee the design, engineering, and deployment of business unit network solutions and capabilities.
• Advocate for the business unit and its needs in driving new standards, processes, and adoption of new technologies.
• Oversee and manage quality service delivery from vendors and third parties.
• Perform risk management with respect to project oversight and solution development, quickly raising issues to leadership.
• Apply business rationale in the review of designs and solutions developed by the team, ensuring fit for use and financial efficacy.
• Understand how data can improve efficiency and employ methods to exploit these benefits.
• Provide expert technical leadership and maintain working knowledge of core and business‑unit specific technologies.
• Drive development and enhancement of vendor technologies, strategies, and roadmaps.
• Drive adherence to technical standards and propose new standards and technologies where appropriate.

• Minimum of 7+ years of technology evaluation, problem resolution, and project management experience.
• 5+ years of technology evaluation, problem resolution, and project management experience.
• Advanced communication skills, particularly the ability to convey technical information to non‑technical audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to work with a wide array of technical and managerial personnel to solve complex problems.
• Strong customer service skills and orientation.
• Knowledge of film entertainment, hospitality, video distribution, multicast, and broadcast.
• Experience in wide area and local area network design, configuration, installation, evaluation, problem resolution, and project management.
• Deep understanding of network concepts such as LAN, WAN, Internet, and WiFi.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, coordinate, and oversee complex projects.
• Strong presentation, written, and oral communication skills.
• Strong requirements facilitation skills.
• Ability to interface and collaborate directly with IT constituents, executives, business partners, and vendors.
• Ability to think innovatively and to scale influence across a broad array of business use cases and projects.
• Self‑organizing and motivated.
• Has demonstrated success in team leadership, management, and mentorship.
• Understanding of infrastructure service delivery, service roadmaps, and infrastructure as a service.
• Ability to apply architecture and frameworks to engineering designs and design reviews.
• Self‑aware and capable of autonomous execution.
• Effective interaction with cross‑functional senior technical and executive resources.

• Core vendor specific certifications (Cisco and/or Arista and/or Palo Alto).

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Network Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.

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