Senior Network Engineer

Job Description:
Our client, a media/entertainment company, is looking to add a Senior Network Engineer to their team! The Business Network Design Services ("BNDS") is a network team within Enterprise Technology that designs and implements network infrastructure to directly support all company segments with LAN, MAN, WAN, internet, WiFi, and voice network services. BNDS engineers work closely with other technical teams to provide the network services, including the strategy/architecture team, network operations, global information security, wireless and cloud teams among others. This is an opportunity to build networks for the company's world-class business units including film & TV production, media & broadcast, and content distribution. The Network Engineer ("SNE") provides network design and consulting services to business units and peer groups, develops network design plans, and drives implementation of network solutions.
Responsibilities:

• Consulting: Meet regularly with business unit technologists to understand technical strategy, gather requirements, and translate requirements into technology solutions. This requires relationship building / leadership skills, planning, customer service, and problem-solving skills in serving as an interface between Enterprise Tech and the Business Units.
• Analysis & Proposals: Arrange information effectively into solutions alternatives and present them to leadership and business segment partners. This requires accounting for multiple aspects of design solutions including technical, cost/financial, process, security and ongoing support.
• Design: Prepare highly technical designs improving the company's architecture & design standards-direct participation and execution of design, engineering & deployment of business unit network solutions & capabilities. This can include a mix of standard document writing, network diagrams, or contribution to configuration automation. Write Scope of Work documents to guide 3rd party implementers who will conduct the hands-on configuration of network devices; prepare critical documentation necessary for the design & infrastructure to be deployed.
• Implementation: Prepare documentation in order to complete design plans; be accountable for the timely, on-budget implementation of the solution, including risk management & escalation, oversight of 3rd party vendors, and other company internal/external project team members.
• New Technology Evaluation: On occasion, assist the architecture team to evaluate new technology solutions; provide practical and Business Segment oriented perspective to the selection of new technology and adoption of processes.

Qualifications:

• Technical leadership experience in a large, complex enterprise (e.g. at least 30+ sites in multiple countries, at least 10-15k users but preferably 50k+ users).
• Ability to architect best-in-class, large-scale data networks for global enterprises that enhance security, performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.
• Collaborative approach to working with business units to rapidly develop and implement solutions.
• Ability to build and supporting enterprise LANs, MANs, WANs, VPNs, and remote access solutions in a variety of topologies.
• Media/Entertainment/Video Distribution/Broadcast industry experience is beneficial.
• Demonstrable ability to lead, coordinate, and handle complex projects: developing project plans/schedules; delivering a product or service in a timely and cost-efficient manner
• Data center and/or cloud network design experience is helpful.
• Experience with multiple vendor switching, routing, and security products (i.e. not just Cisco).
• Basic or intermediate programming skills in Python or other contemporary toolset/language.
• Possesses good interpersonal skills resulting in the ability to produce clear, concise and consumable verbal and written communications/depictions

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