What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Engineer, IT Network position at Tractor Supply?
Lead Engineer, IT Network
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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