Practice Lead - Networking

What You'll Do

• Own end-to-end delivery of all network and security implementations across the practice
• Lead a team of L1 and L2 network engineers and grow the team as the practice scales
• Remain hands-on in complex customer engagements, leading advanced implementations, troubleshooting, and technical escalations
• Provide technical leadership to L1 and L2 engineers by mentoring, reviewing solutions, and supporting them on challenging issues
• Design and review Low-Level Designs (LLDs) from solution-architect HLDs, typically within 5 working days of customer workshops
• Take handover from the presales / solution-architect team during internal and external project kickoffs
• Plan resources across multiple concurrent customer projects, sequencing work around customer readiness (cabling, terminations, site access)
• Drive on-site customer workshops, planning sessions, and design conversations as the senior point of contact
• Build automation — scripts, templated configurations, deployment playbooks — to scale repeatable deployments (e.g. 50-switch rollouts)
• Conduct post-implementation customer reviews and obtain formal signoff on delivered scope

Requirements

• 8–10 years of hands-on networking and security implementation experience
• Proven experience leading a team of network engineers in a multi-customer delivery environment (System Integrator, OEM, or Distributor background)
• Strong hands-on with firewall platforms: Cisco, Fortigate, and Palo Alto
• Expertise in switching and Wi-Fi: HP Aruba and Cisco (Meraki, Catalyst, SF/SG)
• NAC implementation experience with HP Aruba ClearPass or Cisco ISE
• Security solutions experience with Cisco Umbrella and multi-factor authentication
• Strong LLD design discipline and ability to drive design conversations with customers
• Resource planning across multiple concurrent customer projects

Good-to-Have

• Experience with Wi-Fi active heat-map surveys and remediation
• Routing protocol depth — OSPF, BGP
• Scripting / automation for repeatable network deployments
• Background from comparable system integrators (Frontier, Team Computers, SOIH, etc.)

Benefits

• Health insurance coverage for self, spouse and kids.
• Long-term benefit savings plan with employer matching contributions
• Opportunities for professional development and advancement within the organization