Sr. Network Engineer

Hybrid Opportunity - Onsite 3 days a week in Columbus, OH
Senior Network Engineer provides the technical delivery consulting role in the Infrastructure and Application Delivery lifecycles from detailed design, integration, maintenance, and upgrades of network hardware, software, and standards across the enterprise as it relates to the OSUMC on-perm and cloud network. The Network Engineer defines and follows discrete procedures and protocols to ensure network integrity and compliance, and monitors network utilization, user functions, and performance metrics as required. The Network Engineer analyzes project requirements and solution designs to assure that the network is functionally appropriate, technically valid, and well-integrated with on-perm and cloud in accordance with the security, business user requirements, methods, and standards throughout the project life cycle.
Position Details

• The Senior Network Engineer will design robust and scalable network solutions with a long-term vision, ensuring they align with business objectives and meet the organization's needs while ensuring security, performance, and reliability.
• Designing LANs, WANs, data center networks, wireless networks, and hybrid cloud networks. Document network flows, configurations, diagrams, and procedures to ensure consistency and facilitate knowledge transfer. Adhere to industry standards and best practices in network design.
• Based on the design requirements, choose appropriate networking protocols and technologies. This may involve selecting routing protocols (e.g., OSPF, BGP), switching protocols (e.g., VLANs, STP), and network hardware (e.g., routers, switches, firewalls).
• Provide guidance to Implement techniques such as network segmentation, access control lists (ACLs), encryption, VPNs, intrusion detection/prevention systems (IDS/IPS), and security policies.
• Seamless integration of the network infrastructure with other IT systems and services, such as servers, storage, virtualization platforms, and cloud services
• Executes the network leadership’s vision and research industry trends and modern technologies to proactively identify opportunities to innovate and improve the quality of the network portfolio
• Pursues methods for increased efficiency, using network automation principles along with software vendor APIs and custom scripting/programming to develop new practices and processes that alleviate the team from manually completing repeatable tasks.

Responsibilities
Understand & Drives Technology (30%)

• Leads the analysis of the current technology environment to detect critical deficiencies, legacy, and technical debt and recommends improvement solutions. In addition, leads the analysis of the technology industry and market trends to determine their potential impact on the enterprise.
• Collaborates with technical, business, and subject matter experts to develop technology solutions that enable and drive new business capabilities and operating models.
• Drives technologies and approaches to renovate, extend, and transform the existing core technology base and IT estate.
• Defines high-level migration plans to address the gaps between the future and current state, typically in sync with the IT budgeting or other capital planning processes.

Analyzes & Evaluates Technology (30%)

• Understands and follows established roadmaps, technology trends, and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models.
• Guides technology investment decisions based on analysis and evaluation to drive targeted business outcomes while meeting nonfunctional requirements.
• Helps the EA department define metrics to measure and demonstrate technology value.
• Assists with designing the governance, assurance, and standards activities to ensure enterprise technology compliance with projects and products.
• Oversees and facilitates the research, evaluation, and selection of hardware and software technology and product standards and the design of standard configurations.
• Understands, advocates, and augments the business and IT strategies and their outcome and ongoing results, and leads the communication or marketing activities needed to ensure enterprise success and use

Technical Lead, Collaborates and Deliver Business Outcomes (40%)

• Lead technology change to deliver business outcomes while also virtually leveraging subject matter experts from any other needed technical area.
• Oversees or consults on technology implementation and modification activities (for example, projects and products), particularly for new or shared infrastructure solutions.
• Consult on application or infrastructure development projects to harmonize systems or infrastructure with the enterprise technology architecture and identify when it is necessary to modify the technology architecture to accommodate immediate or future project needs.
• Creates and delivers working, production-ready IT services that agile teams can easily leverage.
• Works closely with project managers, owners, and engineers (e.g., enterprise, business, information, security, and architects) to enable infrastructure agility, scalability, and resilience to support required product needs throughout project life cycles.
• Collaborates with business constituents, architects, project teams, and staff in various functional IT areas to fulfill the responsibilities mentioned above.
• Documents necessary for enterprise technology architecture design and analysis work, including project postmortem documentation and metric collection.
• Provide L4 production infrastructure support

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, system analysis, related study, or equivalent experience.
• A minimum of five years of design and implementation experience in IT, with deep knowledge in the following (or similar) technical disciplines: infrastructure and network design, and security.
• Good understanding of project management, agile principles, and development methodologies; and capability of supporting agile teams by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact, and risks, considering technical and architectural debt.
• Experience delivering presentations to senior-level executives and technical audiences.
• Exposure to diverse technical configurations, technologies, and processing environments.
• Skilled at collaborating with SMEs and business owners, following the guidelines, and facilitating decision-making with stakeholders and peers.

SKILLS

• Knowledge in one or more core network specializations, including but not limited to interior and exterior gateway protocols, virtualized routing, multicast, VPN, DNS/DHCP/IPAM, and security system services
• Proficiency learning and researching modern technologies and methods, developing, and testing solutions, and transitioning solutions to production environments
• Understanding of various backend development languages, databases cloud-based SaaS and PaaS.
• Understanding of various aspects of a technology architecture like cloud, integration, network, and security
• Knowledge of components of an enterprise technology architecture
• Knowledge of IT service management (ITSM) and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
• Knowledge of financial models and budgeting
• Knowledge of information principles and processes
• Knowledge of network and security architecture
• Understanding and knowledge of system development life cycle methodologies (such as waterfall, spiral, agile software development, rapid prototyping, incremental, synchronize and stabilize, and DevOps)