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
