Lead Engineer, IT Network

Tractor Supply Company

$100K — $130K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years experience in networking and telecommunications
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering
  • Technical certifications such as CCNA, CCNP, CCIE preferred
  • Superior knowledge in enterprise LANs, WANs, WLANs
  • Expertise in routing protocols like OSPF, BGP, and troubleshooting Layer 2/3 protocols

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with customers to identify business needs
  • Design solutions that adhere to best practices and compliance
  • Participate in 24x7 on-call rotation
  • Deploy new network solutions and configurations
  • Monitor service availability and generate KPI reports
  • Manage vendor technical relationships
  • Conduct research on technical standards and best practices
  • Lead projects and provide mentorship to team members

Benefits

  • Normal office work environment
  • Flexible scheduling, including nights and weekends
  • Occasional travel opportunities
  • Opportunity for hands-on project leadership
  • Professional development through mentoring and research
Full Job Description
Overall Job Summary

This position is responsible for designing, engineering, and supporting a complex enterprise Local Area (LAN), Wide Area (WAN), and Wireless (WLAN) network.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities (Min 5%)

  • Work with both internal and external customers to understand business requirements and needs.
  • Design maintainable solutions to meet business and compliance requirements through creation and application of best practices to ensure consistency, maintainability, and compliance.
  • Participate in 24x7 on call rotations.
  • Deploy new solutions and configurations.
  • Ensure service availability through creation and delivery of KPI reports.
  • Maintain and manage technical relationships with vendors.
  • Discover current technical standards and best practices (R&D).
  • Provide technical leadership, mentor other team members, and leads project.
  • Deploy patches, updates, and configuration changes.
  • Create and document engineering standards.


Required Qualifications

Experience: 10+ years experience in networking and telecommunications.

Education: Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering. Any suitable combination of education and experience will be considered.

Professional Certifications: Technical Certification CCNA, CCNP, CCIE, is preferred.

Preferred knowledge, skills or abilities

  • Superior knowledge in enterprise LANs, WANs, WLANs including routers, switches, network load balancers and wireless access points.
  • Superior knowledge in layer 3 routing protocols: OSPF, RIP, BGP, and IGRP.
  • Superior Layer 2 and Layer 3 protocol troubleshooting ability, specifically with using protocol analyzers and/or sniffers.
  • Superior knowledge of information security risks and counter-measures for networking equipment.
  • Superior knowledge of Payment Card Industry (PCI) network requirements adherence.
  • Superior knowledge of Cisco Unified Communications Systems.
  • Superior knowledge of firewalls, data encryption, intrusion detection systems, anti-virus software, and other industry-standard techniques and practices.
  • Superior TCP/IP packet analysis ability.
  • Proficiency in MS Office Suite.


Working Conditions
  • Normal office working conditions
  • Must be able to work some nights and weekends
  • Occasional travel required


Physical Requirements
  • Lifting 50+ pounds
  • Sitting
  • Standing (not walking)
  • Reaching overhead
  • Walking
  • Kneeling/Stooping/Bending
  • Driving a vehicle


Disclaimer

This job description represents an overview of the responsibilities for the above referenced position. It is not intended to represent a comprehensive list of responsibilities. A team member should perform all duties as assigned by his/ her supervisor.

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