Senior Advanced Network Engineer, Network Engineering

Corporate:

Light & Wonders corporate team iscomprisedof incredibletalent thatworks across the enterprise defying boundaries to provide essential services in an extraordinary manner to ensure the success of the organization and the well-being of employees.

Position Summary

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Advanced Network Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for providing operational support working as an escalation point within the global Network Engineering team handling complex issues globally and designing and implementing network solutions across our campus and data centers. Additionally this position will be involved in IT work related to mergers acquisitions and divestitures as well as network discovery and documentation. The candidate must possess a strong technical background and be able to work with a high degree of latitude and provide leadership and mentorship to junior members of the team.

Essential Job Functions:

• Provide operational support for the network infrastructure including troubleshooting complex issues and collaborating with other teams within IT and external stakeholders across a multinational enterprise

• Design and implement network solutions across campus and datacenter networks. Provide expert technical support and guidance on highly complex design issues

• Serve as an escalation point for the global IT department in general providing technical expertise and guidance

• Lead and participate in IT work related to mergers acquisitions and divestitures including network integration and separation

• Conduct network discovery and documentation to ensure that the network is accurately represented and maintained to a high level of quality

• Proactively utilize and develop network monitoring tools to notify the team of any issues. Monitor network performance and capacity and make recommendations for improvements and upgrades

• Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends to ensure that the network infrastructure is up to date and effective

• Data Center operations experience Build and maintain rack cable power High Availability options capacity planning and forecasting disaster recovery/business continuity load balancing and architectures

• Provide technical mentorship and guidance to Network Engineers Senior Network Engineers and other IT staff

Qualifications

Education:

• BS or higher in Computer Science Engineering MIS or related field (or commensurate experience)

• CCNP/CCIE Enterprise Data Center or Security is desirable

• 6 years experience working as a Senior/Advanced Network Engineer or Architect in an enterprise environment

Knowledge Skills & Abilities:

• Experience working on merger acquisition or divestiture related network integrations at an Enterprise level would be highly advantageous

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills

• Ability to work independently and as part of a team

• Strong business acumen action oriented and results driven

• Project management methodologies and techniques

• Routing Protocols (BGP OSPF EIGRP PIM) static routing redistribution and policy-based routing

• High Availability (StackWise VSS VPC LACP PAgP)

• Overlay Technologies (VXLAN BGP EVPN Cisco ACI)

• WAN Technologies (MPLS SD-WAN DMVPN IKEv1 IKEv2 GRE)

• Firewalls (Cisco ASA Cisco Firepower FortiGate)

• Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN

• Remote Access VPN Technologies and Posture Assessment

• Cisco ISE for authentication and NAC.

• Cloud Technologies (Microsoft Azure)

• Network Services (DHCP DNS RADIUS NTP TACACS)

• Enterprise Wi-Fi and RF Planning

• NX-OS IOS-XE IOS-XR

Work Conditions:

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to sit stand walk bend use hands operate a computer and have specific vision abilities to include close and distance vision and ability to adjust focus working with computer and business equipment. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Light & Wonder and its affiliates (collectively L&W) are engaged in highly regulated gaming and lottery businesses. As a result certain L&W employees may among other things be required to obtain a gaming or other license(s) undergo background investigations or security checks or meet certain standards dictated by law regulation or order to ensure L&W complies with its regulatory and contractual commitments as a condition to hiring and continuing to employ its employees L&W requires all its employees to meet those requirements that are necessary to fulfill their individual roles. As a prerequisite to employment with L&W (to the extent permitted by law) you shall be asked to consent to L&W conducting a due diligence/background investigation on you.

This job description should not be interpreted as all-inclusive; it is intended to identify major responsibilities and requirements of the job. The employee in this position may be requested to perform other job-related tasks and responsibilities than those stated above.

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