Sr Network Engineer

Position: Sr Network Engineer

Location: Bethesda, MD, 20814

Duration: 8 Months

Job Type: Contract

Work Type: Remote

Pay Rate: $70 TO 73 /H on W2

NOTE: Occasionally, travel may be required to attend Events/Pi Planning in Bethesda, Maryland.

Job Description:

JOB SUMMARY:

• The Sr Engineer – Property Networks is responsible for designing and implementing efficient and optimal networks, including local area networks (LANs), wide area networks (WANs), the Internet, intranets, software defined networks, and other data communications systems in support of the Property Network, connecting 7400+ properties globally to client applications and services.
• As part of a high performing team of network technologists, the Sr Engineer engages in technical workgroups, resolves and makes decisions on complex and high-risk issues, performs research, analysis, design, creation, and implementation of infrastructure systems to meet current and future user requirements in support of the development and management of the network products and services that connect our properties, as well as supporting local property LAN services (guest WIFI, back office, POS, etc.) across the globe.
• This role is accountable for leading cross team relationships and partnering with all business disciplines, other MI teams, outsourcing vendors, and external suppliers to define and implement the Property Networks roadmap, building and enforcing the standards defined in it.
• This position will also lead to define and support service delivery and operational support standards for our Property Networks, partner with the global technology peer teams to meet service level requirements and resolve service delivery issues across the portfolio.
• Reporting to the Director of Property Networks, this key position is responsible to ensure overall requirements by customers and peer delivery and operations groups are met.
• Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: continental IT executives, property LAN service providers (LSPs), end-user computing services delivery, hosting services, enterprise availability, server, storage, virtualization, inclusive of security/privacy, risk management, and disaster and crisis management.
• The successful candidate will provide senior technical engagement for all phases of the infrastructure lifecycle from ideation through execution, and ongoing management and support of the end-to-end network servicing all client Property Network systems. (S)/He will develop and execute new initiatives to simplify, standardize, optimize, and automate the network designs, tooling, and operations to reduce implementation cycle times, eliminate service downtime, optimize performance, and ensure that all security and compliance requirements are fully governed.

CANDIDATE PROFILE

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical field experience/certification
• 7+ years’ experience as a Network Engineer with 7 or greater years in a hands-on role that implements engineering standards, documenting engineering designs, and participating in project cutovers.
• Design, Implementation, Support SDWAN is required, preferred experience on Palo Alto Prisma SDWan (Cloudgenix) platform.
• 5 years’ experience in an IT infrastructure lead role that include:
• Implementation of WAN, LAN, and datacentre networks with a focus on mission-critical, customer-facing applications and services
• Technical knowledge in networking (Cisco and non-Cisco) with an emphasis on software-defined networks (SDN) and leveraging spine & leaf designs, load balancing, firewalls, security design (intrusion detection and prevention), DNS, NTP, Network Tools & Management
• Technical knowledge common routing protocols (e.g., OSPF, BGP), IPv6, VPN, etc. across a global distributed network hands-on experience with the datacentre fabric platforms (Cisco, Arista, or equivalent) hands-on experience with common routing and switching platforms (Cisco, Juniper, HP/Aruba etc.)
• Deep experience in WAN and campus LAN design and implementation, preferably with a focus on hotel property networks
• Experience with automating network functions through tools such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, or Terraform
• Experience with writing Python applications to support network automation
• Understanding of legacy networking routing protocols and the interaction with cloud interconnects
• Experience with network load balancers, WAN optimizers, and Network virtualization.
• Technical knowledge and experience with telco and ISP networks, ensuring diversity and managing availability
• Demonstrated experience in delivering written documents detailing network solutions and diagrams
• 3+ years’ experience with high availability planning, component redundancy design and implementation
• 2+ years’ experience in designing large-scale enterprise network interconnectivity with cloud providers using standard best practices
• Ability to work non-standard hours during change implementations

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced Degree (e.g., MS, PhD) in Computer Science or other technical discipline or MBA, preferably with a focus on technology
• 10+ years’ experience managing large, globally distributed network architecture, engineering, and/or operations teams and leveraging next-generation network designs and technologies to support large-scale deployments
• Proven track record of driving transformation in network technologies, tools, and processes through a data-driven continuous improvement methodology
• Demonstrated experience in improving security, stability, reliability, performance, and agility of complex enterprise networks
• Strong technical knowledge of foundational networking technologies and solid understanding of the software-defined networking (SDN) ecosystem
• Strong understanding of network infrastructure automation, instrumentation, and monitoring platforms and the emerging technologies in this area
• Experience in setting up virtual private clouds in public cloud infrastructure such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Alibaba Cloud, or Google Cloud Platform
• Experience with designing and engineering connectivity to public cloud providers utilizing technologies such as AWS Direct Connect, Azure ExpressRoute, Google Dedicated Interconnect, or Oracle FastConnect
• Proven experience leading highly effective technical teams through major technology and organizational change
• Proven experience re-engineering complex Internet-based network designs to optimize for services and applications that are sensitive to network turbulence (e.g., latency, jitter, loss)
• Proven experience driving operational performance through defining and enforcing Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
• Experience driving and/or significantly participating in vendor RFPs for network products (e.g., hardware, software, tools, telco, services)
• Experience managing or working in the services sourcing and/or ITO or LSP field
• Certification in network and/or security technologies (e.g., CCIE, CCNP, CISSP, etc.)
• Experience in researching emerging technologies and trends, standards, and products and synthesizing into clear technology roadmaps and strategies
• Strong influencing skills and an ability to overcome barriers while driving change
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for a wide range of audiences including executives, business stakeholders, and IT teams
• Strong attention to detail with an ability to operate effectively across multiple priorities

CORE WORK ACTIVITIES

Strategy & Planning

• Actively engages with VP of Global Networks in the creation of long-term and annual IT budgets/spending targets for the Property Network infrastructure area.
• Deliver Property Network technical support to meet defined service levels that are benchmarked against industry standards and metrics.
• Monitor area usage/demand of services provided by either the internal organization or outsources partners to ensure that shared services actual expenditures are in line with planned spending.
• Track actual utilization of services and products, including reporting of supplier performance, in meeting business service expectations and service levels.
• Responsible for ensuring usage / demand of Property Network delivery actual versus planned expenditures are monitored.
• Responsible for ensuring projected resource baselines are managed, forecasted and reconciled against actual utilization of services.
• Ensure key Property Network technology management processes are effectively managed including governance, operations, planning, and change management.

Building Successful Relationships

• Collaborates with Project Managers and business unit leaders for all projects involving enterprise data.
• Acts as a leader and advocate of technology management, including coaching, training, and career development to staff.
• Liaises with vendors and Service Providers to select the products or services that best meet company goals.

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