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
Must-Have
10–12 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