Lead Network Engineer

Our client, a retail chain of home improvement and agriculture stores, is seeking a Lead Network Engineer for a 6+ month contract-to-hire position in Brentwood, TN.

This role is hybrid, onsite two days a week.

Day to Day :

Responsive and clear communication

• To Team
• To management & Leadership
• To Customers
• To PMO and Project leadership teams
• To Sr. Leadership & Cross Departmental
• To Vendors
• To Architects Track and follow up on multiple threaded tasks effectively
• Drive updates and communication till resolution Project Administration
• Communicate Status and Lead IC and Contractor team for large technology deployments
• Lead effort to document standard operational process for new technology.
• Lead process creation and execution for complex technology installations
• Learn, understand, and drive new architectures and standards associated with all company architecture.
• Organize and Participate in Project design and organization with PMO
• Help delegate functional project work to Engineer / Senior Engineer team.
• On assigned projects act as technical project manager working closely with project managers to build project plan, objectives, definition of done. Training
• Train and socialize new processes and technologies to peers and internal support team.
• Write and publish Knowledge base articles for internal and external troubleshooting and configuration processes.
• Review and approve KB articles written by other team members.
• Lead Team training in specialized areas of network work for other team members Inter-team Collaboration
• Work with other support teams to identify process gaps
• Work with other support teams to identify technology gaps
• Actively develop and lead relationships cross-departmentally
• Have visibility and contribute strategically to support roadmap.
• Represent networking at change and architecture review boards. Leadership
• Lead communication efforts with leadership on high priority trouble issues.
• Strong verbal and written communication ability at a leadership level.
• Participate in organizing support team for larger initiatives
• Participate in Strategy and Architectural Design Sessions
• Be able to answer leadership questions about network design and operation Vendor relations
• Work with equipment vendors to determine product roadmaps, software bugs, and device lifecycle needs
• Work with circuit carriers to improve capacity, redundancy and resiliency Intra-team Collaboration
• Work closely with architects to drive improvements to our network reliability
• Work with all networking engineers to explain projects, teach and assist with resolving chronic problems Documentation
• Define documentation standards
• Document and create repeatable resolutions to common problems
• Manage the process to socialize resolutions with lower support tiers
• Create and approve Knowledge Base Articles to socialize with Help desk and IT Operations
• Create in depth Network Documentation and Architectural network diagrams
• Write Standard Procedures for support team to work from
• Write and publish standard architecture / Golden Configs Support & After Hours On Call
• Regular rotation for on call after hours and weekend
• Ability to provided escalated on-call support for all networking issues (store, DC, datacenter, cloud)
• Lead P1 Troubleshooting bridge, delegate support tasks and information gathering for this purpose.
• Participate in Day 2 Change support
• Execute change initiatives in all areas of network presence Technology
• Expert Level Network Route Switch Knowledge
• OSI Layer Understanding / TCP Stack understanding
• Understanding of Common Protocols
• BGP – Advanced (IBGP, Prefixes, Prefix lists, communities, traffic engineering & Route Propagation, EVPN for Vxlan environment)
• OSPF – Advanced (Distance Vector, LSA Fundamentals, Area types, traffic engineering, Route Tables)
• MPLS / LDP – Advanced (LSP’s, synchronization, link state database)
• Fluent reading and understanding of Juniper & Cisco Configurations
• Ability to create / edit basic router & Switch Configurations without the use of a template
• Ability to peer review all network changes
• VXLAN spine / leaf architecture
• Define standards in collaboration with entire team
• Responsible for proof-of-concept lab testing and validation in support of change / project objectives in collaboration with stakeholders
• Define best practices
• Advanced Juniper / Cisco Configuration understanding
• Vlan Configuration / Understanding
• VRF Configuration / Understanding
• SVI / IRB Configuration / Understanding
• Expert understanding of Routing protocols
• BGP Path selection, OSPF Area architecture
• Protocol troubleshooting
• Deep understanding of Datacenter Architecture and its interaction with distributed networks.
• Define best practices
• SDWan vendor Specific Knowledge (Palo Alto CloudGenix)
• Understand the specifics of CloudGenix configuration
• Ability to make unscripted intentional Configuration adjustment
• Functional understanding of Store and DC SDWan Architecture
• Complete understanding of store and DC SDWan Architecture
• Define best practices Cloud (Microsoft Azure)
• Understanding of Azure cloud networking concepts
• Ability to deploy new networks / subnets in Azure
• Provide networking support to firewall, load balancer and server teams Reliability
• Raise network reliability concerns to leadership and architects
• Monitor network capacity trends and recommend needed augments
• Lead holiday readiness as it pertains to networking Voice Platform
• Understanding of platform configuration standard
• Understanding of Voice Specific Protocols and how they travers our network Wireless
• Senior level understanding of store Wireless Vendor Technology (Aruba)
• Functional understanding of Store AP architecture
• Ability to make unscripted intentional Wireless Configuration Adjustments
• Ability to process standard configurations and suggest changes for specific outcomes
• Ability to perform in depth troubleshooting and escalation of wireless issues.
• Functional understanding of DC Wireless Architecture. Requirements :
• 15 years of experience in Azure
• 15 years of experience in DevOps Pay Rate- $96.55- $100.00 / hour
15 days ago