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 - **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