Introduction
Senior Lead Engineer
IBM CIO Network Engineering organization has multiple exciting opportunities for a highly skilled Network Engineer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will demonstrate a deep understanding of SD-WAN with a proven ability to solve complex problems and drive technology transformations. A strong focus on customer satisfaction and the ability to understand and address user problems are essential, ensuring that solutions enhance the overall user experience. A team player mindset, with the ability to operate with a "One Team" approach, is critical to success in this role.
Your role and responsibilities
Key Focus Areas:
• Lead, design and implement network solutions to support global business operations.
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• Configure and maintain routing ensuring high availability, security, and performance.
• Provide Last Level of Support to troubleshoot and resolve complex network issues, providing advanced support for network-related incidents.
• Lead and participate in network transformations, driving improvements in performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate new technologies and optimize existing infrastructure.
• Work with open hardware network platforms, leveraging open-source solutions where applicable.
• Automate network tasks using scripting and controllers to enhance operational efficiency.
• Customer-focused approach, with the ability to understand user problems and deliver solutions that enhance End user experience and application performance.
• Operate with a "One Team" mindset, fostering collaboration and alignment across all teams and stakeholders.
• Ability to support a global network footprint, with availability to address critical issues outside of standard business hours when necessary.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
Expected Skills:
• Proven Enterprise experience with SD-WAN technologies.
• Experience with Prisma / Palo Alto Firewalls
• Experience in driving technology transformations, with a focus on network performance, security, and scalability.
• Experience in scripting languages, software defined network automation, SDN controllers for network automation tasks.
• Proven Experience in creation and delivery of High-Level Design and Low-Level Design solutions.
• Experience in making standardized template driven configurations.
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate with global teams and stakeholders.
• Testing and assessment of tech. designs and solutions in remote lab environment, and verification for enterprise deployment.
Other/Preferred Skills:
• Certifications from vendors such as Cisco or Juniper are highly preferred.
• Experience with open hardware network platforms is a plus.
• Occasional on-call coverage during Weekends to support internal Teams in case of high severity incidents.
• Flexible working hours based on Business Demand (Global Team Meetings, Change Implementation outside of business hours)
Preferred technical and professional experience
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