IT Technical Lead Extranet DNS DHCP IPAM and Load Balancing

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About the position:

The IT Technical Lead will own the strategy prioritization and internal commercialization of Network Extranet DNS DHCP IPAM and Load Balancing ensuring effective management of capacity and work deliverables. This role involves leading a team of IT professionals driving technological innovation and aligning IT initiatives with business goals.

Key responsibilities:

• Develop and implement the strategy for Network Extranet DDI & LB within the organization.

• Prioritize and manage the internal commercialization of Network Extranet DDI & LB.

• Oversee the capacity planning and work deliverables related to Network Extranet DDI & LB.

• Lead and mentor a team of IT professionals providing guidance and support.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.

• Ensure the scalability reliability and security of Network Extranet DDI & LB implementations.

• Monitor and report on the performance and effectiveness of Network Extranet DDI & LB.

• Stay updated with the latest trends and advancements in Network Extranet DDI & LB.

• Manage vendor relationships and negotiate contracts related to Network Extranet DDI & LB.

• Ensure network security needs and designs solutions that meet business requirements for protection standardization efficiency scalability supportability and costeffectiveness.

• Gather requirements and interact with multiple internal and external stakeholders to design and engineer our network infrastructure to support Network products.

• Interact with global peers within the network design operation and across other support teams to support change implementations and solve challenging escalated problems. Implement and maintain processes procedures and associated plans for network infrastructure including administration usage and disaster recovery Use ticketing and change management systems to track incidents and changes.

• Participate in BCP and DRP events and exercises as part of a team supporting the overall network and business environment.

• Develops and implements solutions and processes to maintain the reliability effectiveness and efficiency of network security infrastructure components across the enterprise and associated process control environments.

• Works with project managers team members architects business units and other stakeholders to create agile solutions identifying continuous improvement opportunities creating new or improved processes and automation to support step changes in operational efficiencies.

• Follows standard change management processes and practices when introducing technical changes to the environment.

• Develops and shares best practices with other teams.

Required Qualifications:

Requires a bachelors or masters degree in computer science Information Technology or a related field.

Minimum of 10 years of experience network engineering and wireless communications.

English language (advanced).

Demonstrated skilled to advanced knowledge and experience in critical skills:

• Cloud and on prem networking e.g. routing BDGP UDR VNM SDWAN XR; IP Transport Advanced services e.g. VRF

• Palo Alto Security services e.g. Prisma or Global Protect

• Palo Alto Firewalls and Panorama

• Network Fundamentals and troubleshooting

CCNP or CCIE certification.

Managing IP Transport across various technologies including Wireless Network LTE 4/5G Private LTE 4/5G VPN and VSAT/LEO.

Basic proficiency in scripting and automation particularly using Python.

Awareness of system and network monitoring solutions to ensure optimal performance.

Functional understanding of Azure Network services including vWAN vNet UDR and NSG to support cloud data communications.

Understanding of IP Services and advanced Network Access services including Aruba Wireless Cisco Wireless and Wired LAN.

Advanced understanding of Network Access Control through solutions such as Cisco ISE and Aruba ClearPass.

Security management utilizing Palo Alto Firewalls and Panorama.

Basic understanding of RF technologies including 2way Radio Systems PTP MPTP Cellular and Inbuilding systems.

Basic understanding of DNS DHCP IPAM and Load Balancing technologies.

Preferred Qualifications:

Handson experience with 2 or more: Azure Cloud Service Now Ansible and Azure DevOps API consumption Back End Frameworks .NET Data Access Relational Databases Desktop Application Development Scripting: Ansible Strategic programming e.g. C# Python JavaScript Structured Technical Problem Solving & Debugging

Experience working on agile teams utilizing methodologies such as SAFe Scrum Kanban

Strong written and verbal communication

Demonstrated business negotiation skills influence conflict resolution and resolving technical stalemates

Chevron ENGINE supports global operations supporting business requirements across the world. Accordingly the work hours for employees will be aligned to support business requirements. The standard work week will be Monday to Friday. Working hours are 8:00am to 5:00pm or 1:30pm to 10:30pm.

Chevron participates in EVerify in certain locations as required by law.