Lead Network Engineer Design & Engineering

Lead Network Engineer Design & Engineering
Irving, TX

We are seeking a Lead Network Engineer to join the Network Design and Engineering team. This role serves as a technical authority and hands-on leader, responsible for designing, validating, and delivering enterprise network solutions that are secure, scalable, and operationally resilient.
The Lead Network Engineer partners closely with engineering peers, operations, security, cloud teams, and delivery partners to ensure network solutions are well-architected, thoroughly tested, documented, and production-ready. This role is critical to sustaining the Network Design and Engineering team's reputation as a trusted advisor to units and technology partners.

Position Description
Key Accountabilities

• Act as a technical lead for the design and delivery of enterprise network infrastructure initiatives

• Design, test, and document complex network solutions aligned to business, security, and operational requirements

• Lead implementation of network changes, upgrades, and expansions, ensuring stability and minimal operational impact

• Provide deep technical oversight during delivery, validating designs, configurations, and deployment approaches

• Identify technical risks and design gaps early, and drive engineering led mitigation strategies

• Architect and deliver solutions leveraging software defined (SDx) principles and modern network architectures

• Work across technologies including Aruba (CX), Cisco (Viptela, Meraki), InfoBlox, and Palo Alto

• Serve as a last-tier escalation engineer, providing asrequired afterhours support for critical incidents

• Analyze complex and diverse environments, developing repeatable, standardized solutions

• Mentor and guide engineers, raising technical depth, design rigor, and operational readiness across the team

• Collaborate closely with security, cloud, infrastructure, and operations teams to ensure holistic and secure designs

• Participate in technical reviews, design forums, and stakeholder discussions, clearly articulating risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations

Minimum Requirements

• Typically 10+ years of experience in network engineering, infrastructure, or technical network service

Qualifications

• Advanced experience architecting, implementing, and troubleshooting complex enterprise networks

• Proven technical leadership on large scale network initiatives in enterprise environments

• Deep expertise in LAN, WAN, routing, switching, wireless, firewalls, and VPN technologies

• Strong experience with detailed network design, validation, and documentation

• Handson experience applying automation and scripting within software defined networks

• Familiarity with public cloud networking constructs (AWS, Azure, GCP)

• Experience working with vendor delivered and partner supported network solutions

• Solid understanding of delivery lifecycles, change management, and operational readiness

• Minimum 2 years' experience with automation, software development, or virtualization technologies

Additional Experience

• Experience in healthcare, distribution, or software environments is a plus

• Strong technical curiosity with the ability to rapidly learn and evaluate new technologies

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including technical and executive audiences

• Demonstrated technical thought leadership and innovation

• Strong interpersonal skills to build trust across engineering, operations, and business teams

• Proven ability to exercise sound professional judgment and security first engineering practices

• Experience supporting always on, highly available enterprise environments

• Strong understanding of how people, systems, and processes behave during incidents or crisis situations

• Track record of working across organizational boundaries to resolve complex, high impact technical challenges

Education

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience