:: Network Engineer

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Job Title : Network Engineer

Location : Lexington, KY 40504

Mode : Contract (Day 1 Onsite)

Responsibilities -

• Provides advice, guidance and expertise to promote adoption of methods and tools and adherence to policies and standards. Evaluates and selects appropriate methods and tools in line with agreed policies and standards. Implements methods and tools at project and team level including selection and tailoring in line with agreed standards. Manages reviews of the benefits and value of methods and tools. Identifies and recommends improvements. Contributes to organizational policies, standards, and guidelines for methods and tools.
• Leads the assessment, analysis, planning and design of release packages, including assessment of risk. Conducts post release reviews. Ensures release processes and procedures are applied and that releases can be rolled back as needed. Identifies, evaluates and manages the adoption of appropriate release and deployment tools, techniques and processes (including automation).
• Coordinates and manages planning of the system and / or acceptance tests. Takes responsibility for integrity of testing and acceptance activities and coordinates the execution of these activities. Provides advice and guidance on any aspect of test planning and execution. Identifies process improvements, and contributes to corporate testing standards and definition of best practice.
• Demonstrates creativity and takes initiative in problem solving. Resolves or facilitates resolution of complex problems for assigned program.
• Project assignments are large in scope and are highly complex.
• Provides support to Tier 3 network engineers.
• Provide exceptional customer service to end users, Business Stakeholders and other member.
• Perform daily production support activities.
• Participate in team on-call rotations.
• Lead projects associated to the enhancement, upgrade / patching, or implementation of new or existing technology solutions.
• Coordinate implementation and support efforts between Technology Infrastructure and other teams.
• Provide oversight and facilitation of the IT change management process as it applies to the Network Engineering team.
• Conduct performance tuning and troubleshooting.
• Perform crisis management during high-severity operational incidents.
• Participates in support efforts with support teams and provides technical leadership and ownership of issues across multiple disciplines and technologies.
• Design, implement and maintain a comprehensive monitoring and alerting process across all IT platforms.
• With oversight from the Principal Network Engineer and Management, initiate and facilitate strategic planning activities (capacity planning, process improvement, maintenance, upgrade and end-of-life planning, roadmap development).
• Build new test and production environments on existing or new hardware as required.
• Identify automation opportunities and implement scripted solutions.
• Identify technical innovation and process improvement opportunities.
• Utilize standard tools and methodology to develop system and support performance metrics.
• Demonstrate potential leadership qualities through team motivation and technical training.

Qualifications -

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