Group Lead - Core IT Networking Tampa, FL - Security Clearance

Position: Group Lead - Core IT Networking (US Citizen) - Tampa, FL - 4648 with Security Clearance
We've determined which skillsets are most beneficial for this role. These skills are listed first below as the Must Haves and Nice to Haves our hiring team highly prefers. Below that you'll find the standard job description for this opportunity. Must Haves:
* Bachelors degree in computer related field and 8+ years related experience or AS degree and 10+ years of related
* experience
* Must possess at least 8 years of experience supporting a complex enterprise networking environment.
* Experience with datacenter management, consolidation, IT operations, and M&A activities.
* Incumbent must hold one or more of the following:
Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP), Certified Information
* Systems Security Professional (CISSP), VMware Certified Professional Network Virtualization (VCP-NV), CompTIA Network+.
* Extensive

Experience with the following:
* Enterprise Switching/Routing (L2/L3) Cisco Catalyst, Nexus, Arista
* Cisco Edge Routers (ASR, ISR)
* Firewall/IPS/IDS (Palo Alto)
* VPN (Cisco ASA, Palo Alto)
* SDWAN Technologies (Silver Peak, Arista, Palo Alto)
* Microsoft Azure Networking Services (VNet, NSG, Azure Firewalls, Traffic Manager, etc.)
* Load Balancing Technology (F5, Azure, Cloudflare, Citrix Netscaler)
* Infoblox Blox One DDI (IPAM/DNS/DNS Protection)
* DIA & MPLS Carrier Management
* Collaboration Technologies with Enterprise Voice (Microsoft Teams)
* Network Configuration/Monitoring (PRTG, Solar Winds, Nagios)
* Due to U.S. Government contract requirements, only U.S. citizens are eligible for this role Nice to Haves:
* Security+ and Cloud+ (Or equivalent IA cert) and CompTIA Network+.
* CCNP Cloud, AWS Certified Advanced Networking, Azure Administrator Associate, or Azure Security Engineer Associate.
* Arista Cloud Engineer (ACE) L3-L5.
* Significant

Experience with DNS/DHCP/NAT/FW Security.
* Experience with Cloud Security Appliances and Security Solutions (CASB).
* Knowledge and experience working with VMware vSphere and Hyper-V.
* Knowledge and experience supporting a Microsoft Windows network.

Job Description:

* Leads enterprise network team in design, deployment and support expectations for enterprise networking platform on-premise and cloud hosted.
* Responsible for assuring all enterprise networks platforms are efficiently architected/designed, deployed, and optimized to ensure future growth and comply with industry and regulatory requirements.
* Ensures status reports/logging is digested to accurately capture, evaluate, and optimize enterprise network.
* Work closely with 3rd parties, affiliates, and cross functional teams to ensure enterprise and engineering platforms operate efficiently and securely across the enterprise network, private networks, and public internet services.
* Solves problems and makes decisions daily relative to network issues. Ensures that effective representation takes place for the coordination of work processes and projects with other departments and divisions.
* Participate in all Mergers & Acquisition (M&A) activities including due diligence, data gathering, and leading integration efforts.
* Designs a roadmap for the creation/expansion of existing enterprise network to scale-out through M&A activities while maintaining command, control, compliance of the global enterprise network across all USA sites.
* Reviews and enhances IT policy and procedures to ensure all IT platforms are compliant with corporate policies and guidelines with regards to enterprise networking.
* Ensure adequate staff/scheduling of Network Engineers for both daily and on-call operations providing 24/7 support for the production enterprise network.
* Participate in ongoing optimization and preparation for disaster preparedness including supporting key roles in the Business Continuity Plan (BCP), Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP)
* Provides value by bringing a passion to continually discover ways to improve current processes and suggest new processes to add growing value.
* Assists in business analysis to determine and clarify informational requirements and business opportunities.
* Maintains a central source of information such as a knowledge base enabling support staff…