Lead Network Engineer

What You'll Do

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and architect solution that meets business requirements.
• Design, implement, and manage complex network infrastructures, ensuring high availability, scalability, and security encompassing DC, Campus Network, WAN leveraging Cisco, Arista, HPE/Aruba platforms Lead implementation efforts for large-scale network initiatives, ensuring alignment with business objectives; ensure quality & timely delivery.
• Lead troubleshooting efforts for network outages or performance issues, applying advanced diagnostic techniques.
• Recommend & implement changes to prevent unscheduled outage.
• Develop and enforce network policies, standards, and best practices, staying current with emerging technologies and industry trends.
• Support hybrid cloud connectivity, and SD WAN integrations.
• Oversee network upgrades, migrations, and integrations, coordinating with other IT teams and vendors to ensure seamless transitions.
• Prepare detailed documentation, reports, and diagrams, and present findings & recommendations to management and stakeholders.
• Provide technical training and guidance to team members, mentoring junior engineers, fostering professional development and knowledge sharing within the organization.
• Required Skills: Strong experience in advanced networking leveraging TCP/IP, subnetting, switching fundamentals, VLANs, STP, LACP; routing protocols such as BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, route redistribution, policy-based routing across Cisco, Arista, HPE platforms Experience in Network design - HA/redundancy (HSRP/VRRP), capacity planning, scalable campus/DC/WAN designs, L2/L3 designs, EVPN/VXLAN, micro segmentation, ACLs.
• Experience providing support for various integrations such as firewalls, virtualization, storage technologies Experience in WLAN architecture, RF fundamentals, roaming, controller/AP operations using HPE/Aruba is a plus Must be able to troubleshoot issues using packet capture tools like Wireshark/tcpdump and do analysis; provide root-cause analysis Demonstrated technical leadership in mentoring, incident management, problem resolution, stakeholder communication, design presentations, clear documentation, migrations, upgrades, vendor relations, and risk/timeline management.
• Experience in enabling Network Automation Experience in Cloud networking routing, VPN (IPSec/SSL), DirectConnect Experience supporting Citrix, F5 load balancer, Cisco VPN, SD WAN is a plus Qualification: 15 years of experience in Network design, solution, deployment & support Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field CCNP/CCIE certification is must.
• Job Location: San Jose, CA (in-person/onsite position) The annual salary range for California is $136,500 to $253,500.
• You may also be eligible to receive incentive compensation: bonus, equity, and benefits.
• Sales positions generally offer a competitive On Target Earnings (OTE) incentive compensation structure.
• Please note that the salary range is a guideline and compensation may vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, competencies and work location.
• Our benefits programs include: paid vacation and paid holidays, 401(k) plan with employer match, employee stock purchase plan, a variety of medical, dental and vision plan options, and more.
• We’re doing work that matters.
• Help us solve what others can’t.