Lead Network Engineer

Overview

Enterprise Mobility is the world's largest car rental operator and an industry leader in mobility and technology. We're one of the top global travel companies, ranking ahead of many airlines and most cruise lines and hotels. And no matter what transportation challenges our customers face, we have an innovative solution.

We operate the Enterprise Rent-A-Car National Car Rental and Alamo Rent A Car brands via more than 10,000 fully staffed neighborhood and airport offices, including franchisee branches, in over 90 countries and territories.

Through this robust global network, we operate a fleet of over 2.3 million vehicles and provide a comprehensive portfolio of transportation solutions, including car rental, carsharing, vanpooling, car sales, truck rental, vehicle-subscription and affiliated fleet management services. As a total mobility provider, we serve the needs of a wide variety of customers, businesses, government agencies and organizations every day.

At the center of it all, our dedicated IT teams innovate, design and develop the technology that is redefining how customers rent, buy and share vehicles from our family of brands. Here, you will be part of a diverse and talented team that creates and delivers powerful technology solutions for our customers and employees across the world with the resources and support to develop in a variety of career paths.

As an Enterprise Mobility team member, we offer an excellent package with market-competitive pay, comprehensive healthcare packages, 401k matching & profit sharing, schedule flexibility, work from home opportunities, paid time off, and organizational growth potential.

This position is open to candidates who wish to work from home (WFH). Team members who choose virtual / remote work should have an adequate space to serve as their home office. #LI-REMOTE

Responsibilities

As part of the Network Engineering team, you will partner with others to lead the development, design, and integration of solutions supporting our networking initiatives. You will have the opportunity to work across multiple teams to help deliver innovative solutions in support of Enterprise Mobility's technology strategy. Through familiarity with emerging technologies, security, and design practices, you will provide secure and responsive solutions to our business.

As an Lead Network Engineer you will design, develop, and modify many different elements of network technology. You will be required to understand advanced methods, theories and research techniques that establish ongoing direction and implementation of the technology vision and strategy. An individual in the L ead Network Engineer role is expected to serve as a subject matter expert in multiple areas of technology. In this role will represent your team in a positive manner within and outside of your department. You will lead implementations and provide viable recommendations for implementing new solutions. You will also provide instruction and guidance to less senior team members on new tasks and assignments, ensuring deadlines are met. Daily activities include but are not limited to lifecycle research and remediation; network solution design, validation, and implementation; new technology research and recommendations; and interacting with other infrastructure and application teams. You will also be required to monitor key performance metrics to ensure compliance of established standards, processes, and procedures.

Essential Functions:

• Identify, influence, and drive opportunities to further our network and strategies

• Collaborate with engineers, architects, and teams throughout IT to ensure alignment and partnership

• Provide leadership in key interactions with others to define, analyze, and deliver customer solutions

• Take an active role in applying advanced methods, theories, and research techniques to establish ongoing direction, specification, design, development and implementation of technology vision and strategy

• Accurately scope deliverables including dependencies, risks and issues to ensure seamless delivery, technology effectiveness and security

• Provide guidance and oversight on technical matters within a solution to ensure that the technologies are secure, interoperate and connect appropriately, and align with our information technology strategy

• Collaborate with architects and recommend adjustments to the architecture to improve the overall quality of a solution

• Listen to and evaluates customer needs to determine and implement high quality solutions that align with customer expectations; Identifies opportunities for improvement; ensures others are aligned with customer expectations

• Actively coach, mentor, and teach others; use influence, expertise and leadership to support other teams as they implement technology solutions

• Protect our customers, our employees, and our brands by incorporating security and compliance in all decisions; ensure security policy and procedure requirements are met; continuously identify opportunities for improving security and implements strategies to improve our security posture

Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veterans

Qualifications

Required

• Must be presently authorized to work in the U.S. without a requirement for work authorization sponsorship by our company for this position now or in the future

• Must be committed to incorporating security into all decisions and daily job responsibilities

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Management Information Systems, or related field preferred

• 5+ years of related experience

• Extensive experience working in network design and implementation, network security, troubleshooting and operations

• Expertise in network design and configuration

• Experience with Cisco Routing and Switching Technologies for data center and campus networks utilizing Cisco IOS and NX-OS

• Knowledge and/or previous experience with Meraki network products and management

• Working knowledge of Palo Alto and Cisco ASA firewall platforms

• Previous experience in a technical leadership role focusing on network design and implementation

• Understanding of Next Generation firewalls and associated security mechanisms such as VPN, IPSEC and SSL

• Previous experience designing/configuring LAN/WAN/MAN environments

• Previous experience with EBGP/IBGP Route control, AS Path filtering, route-maps, communities, local preference, metrics

• Knowledge and experience with network automation best practices; Ansible experience preferred

• Previous experience or working knowledge of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) concepts

• Strong knowledge of switching protocols and link aggregation methodologies

• Previous experience with OSPF including multiple area networks, route redistribution, and tagging

• Previous experience with Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) software-defined network solution

• Previous experience with QoS design

• Working knowledge of DNS and DHCP protocols

• Previous experience testing and analyzing software releases impact to network security

• Ability to clearly write process, analysis, and solution documentation

• Proven ability to accurately interpret, document, and deliver customer requirements

• Ability to successfully communicate technical details to a wide variety of audiences, including technical and non-technical individuals

Preferred

• CCNP or other Professional-level certifications

Enterprise Mobility/Enterprise Rent-A-Car/Alamo Rent A Car and National Car Rental seeks and values people of all backgrounds because every employee, customer and business partner is important. Enterprise Mobility is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. If you have any difficulty using our online system and you need an accommodation due to a disability, you may use this alternative email address (~~~) to contact us about your interest in employment.