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Position Summary:
The Team Lead - Network Engineering is responsible for leading the design, implementation, and operational support of enterprise network infrastructure across on-premises, colocation, and cloud environments. This role combines senior technical expertise with people leadership, operational governance, and cross-functional coordination.

The Team Lead ensures high availability, security, performance optimization, and operational compliance across routing, switching, wireless, firewall, SD-WAN, segmentation, and cloud networking platforms. This position serves as the primary technical escalation point while overseeing team capacity, delivery execution, and service performance metrics within a 24/7 production environment.

Technology Environment

• Cisco Routing & Switching (hardware lifecycle management)
• Cisco Wireless infrastructure
• Palo Alto Firewalls
• Palo Alto Prisma Access (Firewall / Cloud VPN)
• Illumio (micro-segmentation)
• Palo Alto or VeloCloud SD-WAN
• Carrier circuits, Equinix cross connects, structured cabling
• AWS and Azure Networking
• Cisco ISE
• Cisco DNAC
• SolarWinds Orion

 
 
Key Responsibilities:

Leadership & Team Management

• Manage user and stakeholder relationships across business and technology teams.
• Provide senior-level technical domain expertise and hands-on leadership across supported platforms.
• Act as primary technical escalation point for complex incidents and major outages.
• Manage team resources, recruitment support, capacity planning, and on-call rotation scheduling.
• Oversee workload prioritization and ensure service delivery alignment with business objectives.
• Lead change and incident management coordination across infrastructure, security, cloud, and application teams.
• Coordinate and drive network-related project initiatives and infrastructure upgrades.
• Deliver operational reporting on capacity, platform health, change activities, and incident metrics.

Technical & Operational Oversight

• Oversee enterprise network operations including incident response and problem management.
• Ensure proactive platform health monitoring, performance tuning, and capacity management.
• Govern firewall, segmentation, and VPN rule management processes.
• Oversee failover and disaster recovery (DR) testing.
• Ensure compliance with ITSM processes and operational standards.
• Supervise hardware lifecycle management, patching, firmware upgrades, and vulnerability remediation.
• Provide oversight of Equinix colocation operations, carrier circuit provisioning, and infrastructure deployments.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of enterprise network engineering experience, with demonstrated leadership responsibilities.
• Proven experience operating within high-availability, mission-critical environments.
• Experience leading technical teams in hybrid cloud networking environments (AWS/Azure).
• Strong experience managing firewall and segmentation governance at scale.

Technical Competencies

• Deep expertise in TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, VLANs, QoS, IPsec, SSL VPN, and enterprise network security architecture.
• Hands-on experience with Cisco networking, Palo Alto platforms, SD-WAN, ISE, DNAC, and monitoring tools.
• Strong understanding of carrier connectivity, colocation deployments, and cross-connect provisioning.
• Familiarity with automation and infrastructure-as-code practices is advantageous.

Soft Skills

• Strong leadership presence with high accountability and ownership.
• Effective stakeholder communication and cross-team coordination skills.
• Ability to make decisions under pressure during critical incidents.
• Strong planning, prioritization, and organizational skills.
• Highly analytical with a continuous improvement mindset.

Preferred Certifications

• Cisco (CCNP/CCIE)
• Cisco Wireless certifications
• Palo Alto (PCNSE)
• AWS certifications

 

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