Lead Network Engineer

Overview

Lead Network Engineer role at The Walt Disney Company. The Enterprise Technology group delivers technology solutions aligned to business strategy, enabling enterprise efficiency and cross-company collaboration.

What You’ll Do

The Lead Network Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting purpose-built networks. This role serves as the technical leader for the network engineering and operations team, ensuring consistency, scalability, reliability, and alignment with long-term business and technology strategies. Responsibilities include approvals, technical guidance, and maintaining technical expertise, as well as mentorship, technical leadership, and Tier 3 escalation support to the Network engineering and operations teams while partnering closely with stakeholders across the organization. The Lead collaborates with the business to ideate, develop, and implement innovative technology solutions that enable unit capability needs, and acts as a critical partner to the business unit through all aspects of solution development and deployment.

• Mentors team members in technical aptitude and expertise, soft skills, risk analysis, and relationship management

• Adeptly performs relationship management across all levels of the business unit and network services teams

• Directly participates in and oversees the design, engineering and deployment of business unit network solutions and capabilities

• Advocates for the business unit and its needs in driving new standards, processes, and the adoption of new technologies

• Oversees and manages quality service delivery from vendors and third parties

• Performs risk management with respect to project oversight and solution development oversight, quickly raising issues to leadership

• Applies business rationale in the review of designs and solutions developed by the team, ensuring fit for use and financial efficacy

• Understands how data can improve efficiency and employs methods to realize these benefits

• Provides expert technical leadership and is adept in the core technologies required

• BU-specific technologies – expert understanding of core network concepts and technologies, with working knowledge of BU-specific technologies

• Drives development and enhancement of vendor technologies, strategies and roadmaps

• Drives adherence to technical standards and, where appropriate, proposes new standards and technologies

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Minimum of 7+ years of technology evaluation, problem resolution and project management experience

• 5+ years of technology evaluation, problem resolution and project management experience

• Advanced communication skills, particularly the ability to communicate technical information to non-technical audiences

• Demonstrated ability to work with a wide array of technical and managerial personnel to solve complex problems

• Strong customer service skills and orientation

• Knowledge of film entertainment, hospitality, video distribution, multicast and broadcast

• Experience in Wide Area Network (WAN) and Local Area Network (LAN) design, configuration, installation, evaluation, problem resolution, and project management

• Deep understanding of network concepts such as LAN, WAN, Internet and WiFi

• Demonstrated ability to lead, coordinate, and oversee complex projects

• Strong presentation skills

• Adept at written and oral communications

• Strong requirements facilitation skills

• Ability to interface and collaborate directly with IT constituents, executives, business partners, and vendors

• Ability to think innovatively

• Self-organizing and motivated

• Has demonstrated success in team leadership, management and mentorship

• Can scale influence and leadership across a broad array of business use cases and projects

• Understands and can practically apply the concepts of infrastructure service delivery and service roadmaps

• Seeks to understand customer perspective and informs leadership (voice of the customer)

• Thinks in terms of technologies and business/technical capabilities

• Can comprehend and apply architecture and frameworks to engineering designs and design reviews

• Understands delivery of infrastructure as a service

• Possesses strong communications skills resulting in the ability to produce clear, concise and consumable verbal and written communications

• Is self-organizing and capable of autonomous execution

• Is self-aware

• Is able to effectively interact with cross-functional senior technical and executive resources

Preferred Qualifications

• Core vendor specific certifications (Cisco and/or Arista and/or Palo Alto)

Required Education

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Network Engineering, Electrical Engineering or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience

The hiring range for this position in Raleigh, NC and Morrisville, NC is $148,300 to $198,800 per year. The base pay offered will consider internal equity and may vary depending on geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.

Job Posting Segment: Enterprise Technology and Data

Job Posting Primary Business: Services and Platforms

Primary Job Posting Category: Network Engineer

Employment Type: Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code: Raleigh, NC, USA

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