Network Engineer Lead Job Description
Network engineer lead
provides production support, architecture, life-cycle management, configuration and maintenance of switches, routers, firewalls, wireless networks and network appliances and systems.
Network Engineer Lead Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Design and implement solutions to optimize operations
Content / load balancing, Network Security, Firewalls, VPN network management
Network security (firewalls, DMZ architectures, cloud services)
Contributes to the creation of new policies and procedures for Maintenance Plan and Continuity of Operations Plan
Plan and implement network security, including setting up firewalls, managing host security, applying cryptography to network applications, and regulating file permissions
Develop a common understanding of service level expectations with the business areas and regularly review the business areas’ measures and impressions of service level delivery
Ensure appropriate resources are in place to meet delivery expectations
Assess vendor development/test strategies
Provide Tier 2/3 support for a complex global enterprise network
Develop best practices for capacity planning, trending, monitoring, high availability and disaster recovery
Network Engineer Lead Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Network Engineer Lead
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CCNA, CCNP, CCIE, ITIL, II, IAT, MCSE, MCSA, CCDP, VOIP
Education for Network Engineer Lead
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the network engineer lead job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and High School Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Management Information Systems, Networking, Telecommunications, Education, Technical, Computer Engineering, Network Engineering, Design
Skills for Network Engineer Lead
Desired skills for network engineer lead include:
Firewalls
Available network operating systems
Ethernet switches
Internet appliances
Network equipment and networking protocols
Business applications
Build processes
Code reviews
Operations
Professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle
Desired experience for network engineer lead includes:
Support the Technical Service Delivery Managers in customer projects, such as complex implementation, migration activity and SLA transition feasibility studies
Assist Technical SDM/Support in scheduling customer maintenances and ensure appropriate quality checks have been completed
Attend and participate in customer meetings as required
Identify opportunities for growth and share with Technical Service Delivery Manager
Provide ITIL direction and guidance for incidents, changes and problems
Establish and enforce best practices for network management, including configurations, monitoring, patch management and security
Network Engineer Lead Examples
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Network Engineer Lead Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of network engineer lead. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for network engineer lead
- Constructs, tests and implements integrated network, hardware and software solutions, distributed computing solutions, and/or physical and logical communications networks for the customer
- Participates in day-to-day orders, Special Projects, and trouble tickets to include Move, Add, and change requests for the data network
- Must be able to write and execute detailed network implementations
- Provide network performance statistic and reports and recommend technical enhancements to the network
- Interfaces with others on system infrastructure problems and advices management on technical problems, priorities, and methods
- Ensures customer satisfaction with the resolution or circumvention of hardware, software, and/or circuit problems including the assessment of bandwidth requirements based upon empirical data
- Provides technical consulting on high level network designs, platform sizing, infrastructure system design and the application of new technologies
- Applies extensive industry and enterprise knowledge to identify and recommend integrated solutions, products and services to support the enterprise's accomplishments of business goals or technical needs
- Contributes to systems infrastructure plans based on an understanding of the customer's organizational direction, technical context and business needs
- Extensive client interaction with primary focus of achieving and surpassing client project goals
Qualifications for network engineer lead
- Awareness of environmental calculations to factor in Power and AC requirements
- Ability to work effectively in a team setting independently with minimal error and guidance
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in a technical position with primary responsibilities supporting large Cisco Network Infrastructure implementations
- Experience with designing, building and monitoring Cisco routers and switches mentoring Junior Engineers
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering or related science
- Minimum of 5 years experience in Network-related disciplines in architecture and engineering
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Network Engineer Lead Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of network engineer lead. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for network engineer lead
- Should be willing to work in EMEA shifts – 12.30 PM to 9.30 PM India time
- Ability to participate in on-call rotation as needed
- Provide technical/strategic expertise to Infrastructure systems/application roadmap, taking ownership on both large and small scale assigned projects
- Communicate effectively with customers and stakeholders to assess infrastructure and support needs
- Experience with cloud migrations and managing hybrid environments
- Develop and/or deliver technical training in complex technical areas
- Prepare business case justifications, negotiate, finalize and monitor vendor contracts
- Must assess evolving user needs, translating those needs into network changes through network reconfiguration, hardware and software acquisitions, installation and test
- Assess evolving user needs, translate those needs into network changes through network reconfiguration, hardware and software acquisitions, installation and test
- Apply current and emerging network software and hardware technology and protocols
Qualifications for network engineer lead
- The ability to work in a team-oriented collaborative environment while being highly motivated to take the lead on projects
- Experience with scripting languages such as
- Ability to successfully interoperate as a part of a globally disparate team work independently
- Proven hands-on network engineering expertise
- Ten (10) years of technical supervisory experience to provide supervision, direction, and control of technical/engineering personnel
- CCNA, CCNP or higher (CCIE and/or CISSP highly valued)
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Network Engineer Lead Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is hiring for a network engineer lead. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for network engineer lead
- Handle the offshore team and work closely with them to run the day to day operations
- Ensures network connectivity of all servers, workstations, telephony equipment, fax machines, and other network appliances
- Conducts research on network products, services, protocols, and standards to remain aware of new developments in the networking industry
- Provides guidance, training, leadership and coaching to the junior network engineers of the team as required
- Work with the team to maintain the uptime of the network and respond to issues and requests
- Collaborate with other engineers and leadership to design new solutions when needed for new projects and replacing existing solutions
- Maximize network performance by monitoring performance, troubleshooting network problems outages, schedule upgrades and collaborating with the team
- Secure network systems by establishing and enforcing policies, defining monitoring access
- Keep up to date with all security notices for the network environment - hardware and software, and coordinate with the team to update them as necessary
- Follow existing processes for the organization and team
Qualifications for network engineer lead
- Ten (10) years’ experience designing, configuring, and troubleshooting TCP/IP networks to include hardware (switches, routers), software (operating system), network management systems, network access control, quality of service (QoS), and network services
- Experience designing and configuring complex networks including working with multiple vendors such as Cisco, Juniper
- Strong knowledge of routing and switching systems (Cisco preferred), routing protocols (OSPF, EIGRP, and BGP), and gateway redundancy protocols (HSRP, VRRP, and GLRP)
- Bachelor’s in MIS, Computer Science, Telecommunications or other related technical field
- Extensive experience with Windows Operating System, Cisco networking equipment, SonicWall Systems, UNIX, Linux
- Minimum 5 years detail experience working with LAN-WAN-Server components
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Network Engineer Lead Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a network engineer lead. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for network engineer lead
- Perform administrative tasks pertaining to time entry and status reporting
- Be the point of contact for the client for any activity related to DB Ops
- Provide a managed service at one of the customers
- Be responsible for the day to day management and monitoring of the global network
- Provide your technical input and on top you will also be responsible for the day to day management of this team
- Be the part of the on-call team meaning that sometimes you will be assigned as the on call person in case of an emergency after business hours
- Troubleshooting Enclaves
- Ability to add, delete and modify customer linksets into PIC
- Ability to create PIC KPI’s
- Ability to perform Surveillance tracing
Qualifications for network engineer lead
- Deep understanding of networking protocols (e.g., IPSEC, HSRP, BGP, OSPF, 802.11, QoS)
- Highly proficient in LAN/WAN infrastructures, topologies and protocols which includes (OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, RIP, IGRP, including translation of protocols), switch, VTP, VLAN trunking, TCP/IP, IP subnetting, and current knowledge of emerging technologies
- Hands on experience with Wide Area Network / Broadband (Frame Relay, DSL, Cable, ATM, ISDN, MPLS, DS3, OC3)
- Any related certifications (CCNA, CCNP, CCIE) experience in ITIL processes will be considered as a plus
- Contributing as a key member of the resolver group for all NSX related inquiries, events and issues
- Troubleshooting and resolving a broad range of issues related to NSX
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Job Description Example
Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of network engineer lead. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for network engineer lead
- Responsible for a designated set of software tools and the security functionality of these tools, including BlueCoat, FirePower IPS/IDs and Imperva products
- Network Design, Capacity Dimensioning
- Network RF Planning
- Network audit with corresponding analysis
- Suggests improvements to the related processes, methods and tools
- Performs critical (sometimes escalated) design and performance activities in customer projects independently
- Third Level Support, act as escalation path for complex incidents and change requests, engaging vendors where required
- Prepare, plan and execute software upgrades to address critical bugs, vulnerabilities or EOL announcements
- Responsible for all routing/switching and encryption devices (type 1 encryption devices)
- Architect, supervise and participate in the implementation of technologies and platforms supporting a complex corporate voice infrastructure
Qualifications for network engineer lead
- A deep understanding of IP routing protocols including OSPF, BGP, MPLS, IGMP and VRF along with the ability to troubleshoot complex routing issues
- LAN/WAN/MAN design and migration experience with a focus on WAN services (ISDN, Frame-Relay, Point-to-Point, and MPLS)
- VMware NSX training completion and certification is required
- 7+ years direct experience required in the management and administration of network infrastructure - routers, switches, load balancers, SSL acceleration technology, - in a high-availability / e-commerce infrastructure on a 24x7x365 basis with at least 5+ years of experience in global, production-scale infrastructure delivering multiple 9s of availability over an infrastructure comprised of 10s or 100s of thousands of servers consumings 10s or 100s of gigabits of data per second
- A Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Mathematics, or other Engineering or Technical discipline
- May work with end users and may assist with training