Senior Advanced Network Engineer, Network Engineering

Corporate:

Light & Wonder’s corporate team is comprised of incredible talent that works across the enterprise, defying boundaries to provide essential services in an extraordinary manner to ensure the success of the organization and the well-being of employees.

Position Summary

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Advanced Network Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for providing operational support, working as an escalation point within the global Network Engineering team handling complex issues globally and designing and implementing network solutions across our campus and data centers. Additionally, this position will be involved in IT work related to mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures, as well as network discovery and documentation. The candidate must possess a strong technical background and be able to work with a high degree of latitude and provide leadership and mentorship to junior members of the team.

Essential Job Functions:

• Provide operational support for the network infrastructure, including troubleshooting complex issues and collaborating with other teams within IT and external stakeholders across a multinational enterprise

• Design and implement network solutions across campus and datacenter networks. Provide expert technical support and guidance on highly complex design issues

• Serve as an escalation point for the global IT department in general providing technical expertise and guidance

• Lead and participate in IT work related to mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures, including network integration and separation

• Conduct network discovery and documentation to ensure that the network is accurately represented and maintained to a high level of quality

• Proactively utilize and develop network monitoring tools to notify the team of any issues. Monitor network performance and capacity and make recommendations for improvements and upgrades

• Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends to ensure that the network infrastructure is up to date and effective

• Data Center operations experience – Build and maintain rack, cable, power, High Availability options, capacity planning and forecasting, disaster recovery/business continuity, load balancing and architectures

• Provide technical mentorship and guidance to Network Engineers, Senior Network Engineers and other IT staff

Qualifications

Education:

• BS or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, MIS or related field (or commensurate experience)

• CCNP/CCIE Enterprise, Data Center or Security is desirable

• 6+ years' experience working as a Senior/Advanced Network Engineer or Architect in an enterprise environment

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:

• Experience working on merger, acquisition or divestiture related network integrations at an Enterprise level would be highly advantageous

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills

• Ability to work independently and as part of a team

• Strong business acumen, action oriented and results driven

• Project management methodologies and techniques 

• Routing Protocols (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, PIM), static routing, redistribution and policy-based routing

• High Availability (StackWise, VSS, VPC, LACP, PAgP)

• Overlay Technologies (VXLAN, BGP EVPN, Cisco ACI)

• WAN Technologies (MPLS, SD-WAN, DMVPN, IKEv1, IKEv2, GRE)

• Firewalls (Cisco ASA, Cisco Firepower, FortiGate)

• Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN

• Remote Access VPN Technologies and Posture Assessment

• Cisco ISE for authentication and NAC.

• Cloud Technologies (Microsoft Azure)

• Network Services (DHCP, DNS, RADIUS, NTP, TACACS+)

• Enterprise Wi-Fi and RF Planning

• NX-OS, IOS-XE, IOS-XR

Work Conditions:

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, bend, use hands, operate a computer, and have specific vision abilities to include close and distance vision, and ability to adjust focus working with computer and business equipment. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.