Senior Network & Systems Engineer - Lead

As a Senior Network & Systems Engineer - Lead, you will leverage your technical knowledge and specialized skills to support, build, implement, and enhance technology solutions across various sites in a defined geographical area. In this role, you will manage significant projects with minimal guidance, affecting multiple locations in the region. You will be responsible for resolving customer issues during crisis situations and will focus on expanding your expertise in software design patterns, data structures, AWS technologies, and distributed systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive network excellence through advanced engineering, troubleshooting, and systems administration across multiple facilities.
• Maintain critical systems uptime; serve as the first escalation point for complex issues.
• Troubleshoot difficult IT problems without established SOPs; resolve incidents under time pressure.
• Demonstrate complete networking expertise, including routers, switches, firewalls, wireless APs, structured cabling (DNS, DHCP, VLANs, TCP/IP, subnetting, network security protocols).
• Lead and execute regional technical projects from conception to completion with minimal guidance.
• Collaborate with internal teams and external vendors to deliver infrastructure improvements and technology rollouts.
• Automate manual tasks; create and improve tools that increase team efficiency.
• Conduct root cause analysis to resolve recurring challenges and prevent future incidents.

Requirements

• 3+ years of IT client, server, and network service delivery experience.
• 4+ years of IT systems or relevant commercial production environment experience.
• 4+ years of networking knowledge (DNS, DHCP, SSL/TLS, OSI Model, TCP/IP, VLANs, subnetting, routing protocols).
• 4+ years of Windows/Server administration, Linux administration, or Cisco IOS (CLI) experience.
• Experience with new site launches including end-to-end IT infrastructure buildout and go-live support.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Work Conditions

• Provide on-call support beyond business hours during critical incidents; ensure minimal downtime.
• Collaborate with multiple stakeholders across operations, engineering, vendors, and leadership.