Lead Network Engineer

Lead Network Engineer

The Lead Network Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting purpose-built networks. This role serves as the technical leader for the network engineering and operations team, consistency, scalability, reliability, and alignment with long-term business and technology strategies.

As the lead network engineer, this individual will be responsible for peer approvals, technical guidance and maintain technical expertise. In addition, this role provides mentorship, technical leadership, and Tier 3 escalation support to the Network engineering and operations teams while partnering closely with stakeholders across the organization.

The Lead Network Engineer works closely with the business to collaboratively ideate, develop and implement innovative technology solutions that enable business unit capability needs. The Lead is seen as critical partner to the business unit team, and partners closely through all aspects of solution development and deployment.

Required Skills &

Qualifications:

• 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 communicate 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 Wi Fi
• Demonstrated ability to lead, coordinate, and oversee complex projects
• Strong presentation skills
• Adept at written and oral communications
• Strong requirements facilitation skills
• Ability to interface and collaborate directly with IT constituents, executives, business partners, and vendors
• Ability to think innovatively
• Self-organizing and motivated
• Has demonstrated success in the areas of team leadership, management and mentorship
• Can scale influence and leadership across a broad array business use cases and projects
• Understands and can practically apply the concepts of infrastructure service delivery, and service roadmaps.
• Seeks to understand customer perspective/feedback and informs leadership (voice of the customer)
• Thinks in terms of technologies and business/technical capabilities
• Can comprehend and apply architecture and frameworks to engineering designs and design reviews
• Understands delivery of infrastructure as a service
• Possesses strong communication skills resulting in the ability to produce clear, concise and consumable verbal and written communications/depictions
• Is self-organizing and capable of autonomous execution
• Is self-aware
• Is able to effectively interact with cross functional senior technical and executive resources

Preferred Qualifications:

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

Required Education :

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

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