The Networking Group Lead is responsible for providing leadership to a team of 5-12 network administrators and engineers, run weekly standups and team meetings, architect and create the design of networking products, build templates, structure, timeline, configuration and design, and manage projects. This person must be hands on in networking engineering.
- Arlington, TX or Tampa, FL
- 8% annual bonus
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 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 to recover from outages with minimal disruption to expected service levels.
Lifecycle management of all enterprise networking software and hardware. This includes budgetary responsibility over enterprise networking product evaluation, purchase/upgrades, renewals, and decommission.
Interacts with vendors, suppliers, and contractors for equipment and carrier services.
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- 8 yrs exp in networking and network management (1-3 in management/leadership)
- Strong technical background in network engineering
- CCNP, CISSP, VCP-NV, CompTIA Network+, or Arista Certified Engineer (ACE) L3-L5 certified
- Bachelors degree in computer related field and 8+ years related experience or AS degree and 10+ years of related experience
- 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 (SilverPeak, Arista, Palo Alto)
Microsoft Azure Networking Services (VNet, NSG, Azure Firewalls, Traffic Manager, etc.)
Load Balancing Technology (F5, Azure, Cloudflare, Citrix Netscaler)
Infoblox BloxOne DDI (IPAM/DNS/DNS Protection)
DIA & MPLS Carrier Management
Collaboration Technologies with Enterprise Voice (Microsoft Teams)
Network Configuration/Monitoring (PRTG, SolarWinds, Nagios)
- Eligible for Secret Clearance or currently has a Secret or TS
- 5 days a week on site, 9/80 schedule
Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.