Network Engineer Lead

Your Opportunity

Schwab remains committed to providing increased visibility to career growth opportunities and job requirements. This posting announcement is part of increased transparency and while all qualified applicants will be reviewed and considered, this organization has a preferred candidate identified for this role.

At Schwab, you’re empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us “challenge the status quo” and transform the finance industry together.

We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location.

Our Opportunity:

We are seeking a Senior Manager, Network Engineering Lead with an overall focus on network optimization and automation.  The Network Engineering Lead will be a key technical member of a diversified team of network engineering professionals.  The candidate must have an expertise in core and access switch networking with a vast understanding of network automation and software defined networking.

What you’ll do:

• Utilize Cisco and Aruba enterprise routers, switches and controllers for installation, configuration, and ongoing support.
• Controller, Routing and Switch Engineering for capacity and performance analysis for LAN and WAN Utilization.
• Manage Customer timelines and deliverables to help facilitate successful engineering project activities.
• Utilize performance monitoring and capacity planning software tools to model and analyze network systems.
• Design, configuration and troubleshooting of the corporate network
• Provide third level support in troubleshooting network performance issues.
• Participate in production support of core projects, including gathering and documenting requirements.
• Communicates clearly and in an understandable manor with a wide range of people such as managers, internal customers, and vendors
• Demonstrated ability to effectively advice and counsel both managers and non-supervisory employees on work-related issues
• Apply creative approaches and innovative thinking to the design of new and enhanced network architectures.
• Additional projects and tasks based on business needs.

What you have:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 12+ years’ overall experience in telecommunications and networking.
• Design experience with Cisco Networking technologies, including Route/Switch, Wireless, Nexus, Cisco Prime Infrastructure, Cisco ISE
• Advanced proficiency of Layer 2, Layer 3 routing protocols VRRP, BGP and OSPF.
• Strong time management and multi-tasking skills
• Candidates must possess a combination of business, technical and leadership skills
• Advanced level understanding of protocols such as TCP/IP, UDP, SNMP, etc
• Working knowledge of internet services such as DNS, RADIUS, and LDAP
• Preferred certifications are ACMP and/or ACCP or CWNP and/or CWNE.
• Understanding of LAN/WAN specific statistics and metrics.
• Proficient in network configuration management technologies, including Ansible Engine and Tower.
• Design, configuration and troubleshooting experience:
• Experience in one or more programming languages, especially Python 3.x
• Excellent verbal and written communication, customer service, time management, conflict resolution, and problem determination/resolution skills.
• Able to work with little direct supervision.
• Self-motivated, solutions oriented and pro-active.
• Able to work effectively in a team environment where team members may not be co-located .

What you have

To ensure that we have fulfilled our promise of "challenging the status quo," this role has specific qualifications that successful candidates should have.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 12+ years’ overall experience in telecommunications and networking.
• Design experience with Cisco Networking technologies, including Route/Switch, Wireless, Nexus, Cisco Prime Infrastructure, Cisco ISE
• Advanced proficiency of Layer 2, Layer 3 routing protocols VRRP, BGP and OSPF.
• Strong time management and multi-tasking skills
• Candidates must possess a combination of business, technical and leadership skills
• Advanced level understanding of protocols such as TCP/IP, UDP, SNMP, etc
• Working knowledge of internet services such as DNS, RADIUS, and LDAP
• Understanding of LAN/WAN specific statistics and metrics.
• Proficient in network configuration management technologies, including Ansible Engine and Tower.

Design, configuration and troubleshooting experience:

• Experience in one or more programming languages, especially Python 3.x
• Excellent verbal and written communication, customer service, time management, conflict resolution, and problem determination/resolution skills.
• Able to work with little direct supervision.
• Self-motivated, solutions oriented and pro-active.
• Able to work effectively in a team environment where team members may not be co-located 

Preferred Qualifications

• Preferred certifications are ACMP and/or ACCP or CWNP and/or CWNE.

In addition to the salary range, this role is also eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities