Project Lead Network Engineer (Network) -- Remote

Company: Corporate
Location: Kansas City
Posted on: March 19, 2023

Job Description:

You could be the one who changes everything for our 26 million members by using technology to improve health outcomes around the world. As a diversified, national organization, Centene's technology professionals have access to competitive benefits including a fresh perspective on workplace flexibility.

"Applicants for this job have the flexibility to work remote."

The Role:
We are transforming technology and creating a digital evolution that will empower Centene to better serve our members. As a Project Lead Network Engineer you will be responding to escalations from our Incident Response Operations Center (IROC) as well as collaborating with various application and server owners with the needs to increase capacity or stand up new connectivity for implementations. Work is performed through change controls, requests, and incident break/fix matters tracked under a central ticketing platform. You'll be gathering requirements from various stakeholders in an effort to provide hands on technical solutions with network configurations across various forms of mainly Cisco network technologies.

Position Purpose:
Lead through design and implement enterprise wide network projects by coordinating activities of all resources including 2s, vendors, and business units.

Lead team members through design and implement enterprise wide network projects by coordinating activities of all resources including team members, vendors, and business units.
Oversee network equipment deployment in accordance with network implementation plan maintains network management architecture for specific network components including event monitoring and alerting.
Follows specific procedures for documenting incidents/support calls and updating knowledge base.
Develops and documents plans to troubleshoot, diagnose, and test network related issues.
Completes and publishes professional documentation as related to network architecture and design.

Additionally you will bring:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, related field or equivalent experience. 7+ years in a Network Engineering capacity. Experience working with Cisco Nexus series (5k, 7k, and 9k). Troubleshooting major circuit connectivity with carriers. Determining if firewall or proxy is impacting performance or connectivity, identifying ports or services that need to be opened. Experience working within a DevOps workflow. Experience with scripting to run automation tasks utilizing toolsets from Ansible, Terraform, and Netbrain a plus. E xperience as a scrum master would be a plus.

Application Load balancing experience - Citrix Netscaler preferred - NAC Experience - Cisco ISE preferred - Wireless Networking experience - Cisco WAP preferred - Access Switch Experience - Cisco 9300 preferred - Proven large enterprise level network troubleshooting experience (multiple datacenters / hundreds of remote offices) - IPAM/DNS/DHCP experience - Infoblox preferred - Certificate Management Experience.

Experience leading team members through design and implementation of enterprise wide network projects. Experience developing and maintaining a network management architecture. Advanced experience publishing professional documentation as related to enterprise wide network projects. Ability to provide technical direction and guidance to team members. Experience with design of advanced interior and exterior routing technologies and integration (ex. OSPF, BGP). Experience with design of advanced switching technologies (ex. VPLS). Advanced experience with QoS design and traffic prioritization. Advanced experience with installation and support of Storage networks, WAN acceleration, load-balancing and firewall technologies. Experience with vendor and product analysis. Experience integrating multi-vendor solutions.

License/Certification:
Cisco CCIE, Microsoft MCSE or equivalent preferred

Our Comprehensive Benefits Package: Flexible work solutions including remote options, hybrid work schedules and dress flexibility, Competitive pay, Paid time off including holidays, Health insurance coverage for you and your dependents, 401(k) and stock purchase plans, Tuition reimbursement and best-in-class training and development.

Centene is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity, and values the ways in which we are different. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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