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 - local candidates only
Job Summary :
- 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
- 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
- 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
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
- SDWan vendor Specific Knowledge (Palo Alto CloudGenix)
- Understand the specifics of CloudGenix configuration
- Functional understanding of Store and DC SDWan Architecture
- Complete understanding of store and DC SDWan Architecture
- 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
- 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
Requirements :
- 15 years of experience in Azure - Azure experience is crucial for this role - looking for a strong expert.
- 15 years of experience in DevOps
- Intra cloud experience with Azure (setting up NSG), setting up landings, good handle on virtual networking
- Juniper experience
- Aruba wireless experience
- Also has a strong executive presence - will be working closely with executives and communicating with them
- Cloud interconnect experience
Pay Rate- $96.55- $100.00 / hour
11 days ago