Senior Infrastructure Engineer Lead

We are currently seeking an experienced Senior Infrastructure Engineer Lead to join our Network Hyper-Deployment Squad as part of the Network Orchestration Services Product Line. In this role, you will collaborate closely with other Product Technical teams within Network and Collaboration Services, ensuring alignment with product strategies and standards.

Your primary responsibility will be to lead network deployment projects and initiatives, with a specific focus on enterprise network edge, perimeter, and cloud networking solutions. We are seeking an individual with extensive knowledge across these technological domains, and your expertise is pivotal to our success.

As the designated leader for assigned initiatives, you will oversee the entire lifecycle, coordinating tasks, resolving technical challenges, and providing guidance to ensure the team possesses the requisite skills and expertise.

Moreover, our team is deeply engaged in cutting-edge projects, particularly in the automation of Network Infrastructure. Joining us means being a crucial contributor to these initiatives, taking part in advancing the forefront of network deployment and automation.

Functional Responsibilities

• Lead various complex network deployments (site, region, global), onboarding of network devices, ensuring proper configuration, testing, and integration into the existing network infrastructure
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, Product Teams including network architects and support teams, to ensure seamless integration and alignment of deployed devices
• Collaborate with Business Technology Partners to support for business-led initiatives and resolve standard configuration deviations
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex network deployment issues, leveraging in-depth knowledge of network protocols, routing, switching, and security technologies
• Stay updated with emerging technologies and industry best practices in network deployments, device onboarding, and automation, recommending and implementing improvements to enhance the team's technical knowledge and capabilities
• Foster DevOps principles to achieve velocity, better quality, and predictability in Network Infrastructure through automation
• Continuously identify improvements and opportunities (process efficiency, automation) to adopt best practices and streamline system management, eliminating manual work
• Mentoring network engineers and promoting knowledge sharing

Professional Competencies

• Demonstrates the ability to adapt current work processes, technical procedures to meet emerging needs and the ability to evaluate new ideas and proposed methods for practicality and ease of implementation
• Demonstrates the ability to evaluate technical work tasks with others for timely completion and to avoid potential setbacks
• Demonstrates the ability to adjust work to accommodate sudden task changes and avoid potential threats to meeting task deadlines
• Demonstrates the ability to listen to others and integrate alternate points of view in decisions and ideas

Qualification and Experience

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited educational institution OR equivalent corporate working experience
• Possess over 8 years of extensive hands-on experience in continuous network delivery, deployments, or support for large-scale organizations, and additional experience in specific automation use cases (Ansible, Terraform)
• Deep knowledge in Network Infrastructure, including LAN, WAN, SD-WAN, Wireless, DMZ, Firewalls, Load-Balancing, and shop floor network, with a strong understanding of current trends, lifecycles, and an additional advantage if knowledgeable in Cloud (AWS, Azure) and Data Centre technologies
• Experience with one or more general purpose programming languages, DevOps tools, and markup languages (e.g. Python, JIRA, GitHub, Confluence, XML/JSON/YAML, etc.)
• Experience and working knowledge in different delivery methods (agile, traditional) within large organizations. Experience with SAFe would be an additional advantage.
• Experience with ITSM, ITIL, ServiceNow
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to effectively work with cross-functional teams and stakeholders
• Ability to mentor engineers in network deployments and implementations

What we offer

• Exciting work in a great team, global projects, international environment
• Opportunity to learn and grow professionally within the company globally
• Hybrid working model, flexible role pattern (e.g., even 80% full-time is possible in justified cases)
• Pension and health insurance contributions
• Internal reward system plus referral programme
• * 5 *weeks annual leave, *5 *sick days, *15 *days of certified sick leave paid above statutory requirements annually, *40 *paid hours annually for volunteering activities, 12 weeks of parental contribution
• Cafeteria for tax free benefits according to your choice (meal vouchers, Lítačka, sport, culture, health, travel, etc.), Multis