Lead Network Engineer - Houston, United States - Emergent Professional Resources L.P. (EPR)

Description

***No C2C or Sponsorship Available***

Our global Specialty Insurance client is looking for a Direct Hire Lead Network Engineer in Houston, TX (Jersey Village area Hybrid: 4 days onsite, 1 day work from home). You will manage and maintain complex global network systems; including routers, switches, load-balancers, firewalls, network management, and monitoring tools. Hands-on technical lead role, providing technical leadership and guidance across the Operations team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as a technical mentor to the Operations team.
• Enforce standards to ensure quality and productivity.
• Proactively operate, maintain, and monitor the network infrastructure globally, delivering "network as a service" to each business unit across the company.
• Incident Management – Oversee troubleshooting of complex outages.
• Problem Management – Ensure open problem records are regularly updated and reported on.
• Change Management – Ensure network changes are aligned with internal change management processes.
• Provide technical expertise across the organization.
• Champion and adhere to standards and operating procedures.
• Actively participate and engage in network design governance.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience as a network engineer in large enterprise organizations (3,000+ users)
• 3+ years of experience in a global company across multiple geographies, time zones, and cultures.
• Strong experience in a team lead/manager capacity
• Hands-on experience in implementing, managing, and troubleshooting networks
• Familiarity with a variety of testing tools, networking technologies, and techniques.
• Experience planning and managing change to technology, services, and products.
• Expert knowledge of industry changes, updates, and technical developments.

Technical Skills Required:

• Cisco Routing & Switching (IOS, ASR, ISR, NXOS)
• Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI, APIC)
• Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)
• Cisco Meraki Wireless
• Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA, Firepower, NGFW)
• VMWare VeloCloud SD-WAN
• Citrix NetScaler Load balancing & content switching
• Web Proxy / URL filtering
• BGP and OSPF
• Policy Maps
• Segmentation, VLAN, Spanning Tree, L3 interfaces, HSRP, EIGRP, TCP/IP
• QoS (Quality of Service), ACL (Access Control Lists)
• Network Monitoring & Alerting
• Network Traffic Analysis (Netflow, SPAN)
• Network Security products (including IDS, IPS, DLP)
• DDoS mitigation techniques and technologies

Desired Certifications:

• Cisco CCNP certification or higher; CCIE highly preferred
• ITIL v3 foundation or higher