Enginr, Principal Network

EDF Trading•Houston, TX

14d

About The Position

The Principal Network Engineer is a senior individual contributor and technical authority for EDF Trading North America’s enterprise network. The role owns network architecture, engineering standards, and lifecycle planning, and leads complex network initiatives in partnership with infrastructure, cloud, cybersecurity, application, business, and operations teams. It is accountable for architectural direction, major technical decisions, and network reliability, resiliency, security, scalability, and performance. The engineer also advises IT leadership on network risks, options, and business impact. The position owns architecture and lifecycle across LAN, WAN, data center, wireless, voice, remote access, and cloud connectivity. It sets technical strategy and standards, leads design reviews, supports budgeting and forecasting, oversees vendors and service providers, and mentors engineers. The role also participates in on-call rotation, performs maintenance outside normal business hours when needed, and travels to North American sites as needed.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business, or a related field.
Typically eight or more years of progressive enterprise network engineering experience, including ownership of network architecture and design in a multi-site enterprise environment.
Demonstrated experience leading complex network initiatives from design through implementation, including setting technical direction for other engineers and partners.
Proven experience leading critical incident response and root-cause analysis in enterprise network environments.
Experience developing network standards, designs, and technical documentation.
Experience supporting budgeting and forecasting for network infrastructure, services, or projects.
Must be NERC-CIP certifiable.
Expert-level knowledge of enterprise routing and switching, including BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, VDC, VPC, OTV, FabricPath, and Spanning Tree.
Expert-level knowledge of firewalls, including ACLs/ACEs, NAT, application filtering, and web filtering.
Expert-level knowledge of VPNs, including IPsec, SSL, and DMVPN.
Expert-level knowledge of VoIP and video conferencing technologies, including CUCM, Unity, and TelePresence.
Expert-level knowledge of wireless controllers and access points.
Expert-level knowledge of AAA technologies, including TACACS, RADIUS, and 802.1X.
Expert-level knowledge of QoS, including policy and class maps, ToS, CoS, and DSCP.
Expert-level knowledge of WAN optimization.
Expert-level knowledge of private WAN and public internet access methods, including MPLS (PIP, AVPN), Metro Ethernet, VPLS, dark fiber, cellular, and satellite.
Expert-level knowledge of network management technologies, including SNMP, Syslog, NetFlow, NBAR, and SolarWinds.
Recognized technical expertise and ability to advise on network architecture and design.
Ability to solve complex problems creatively and independently; coordinate solutions across diverse groups; influence change and promote best practices without relying on direct authority; and anticipate business needs and technology impacts on business processes.
Ability to prioritize and execute work effectively in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
Ability to convey complex technical concepts, risks, and recommendations to non-technical audiences, including leadership.
Strong stakeholder management, negotiation, persuasion, and coaching skills, with a commitment to developing others.
Strong ownership, accountability, attention to detail, continuous learning, and professional growth.
Professional written and verbal communication skills.
Proficiency with Visio, Word, and Excel for network diagramming and documentation.
Ability to install and support a wide variety of enterprise-level network components, with or without reasonable accommodation.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Palo Alto Networks technologies.
Experience with Arista Networks technologies.
Experience with private cloud connectivity to AWS and Azure.
Experience with virtualization and SAN technologies, including FC, FCoE, and iSCSI.
Experience with trader turret technologies, including IPC and BT.
Experience in the energy commodity marketing and trading industry.
Experience leading or directing the work of technical teams.

Responsibilities

Lead complex network initiatives, from scope definition and resource estimation through design, implementation, and operational handoff, including modernization, resiliency, scalability, segmentation, and security programs.
Own network capacity planning, performance monitoring, and optimization to meet current and future business requirements.
Design and implement high-availability and disaster-recovery strategies for network services, and participate in disaster-recovery testing and business-continuity activities.
Identify, assess, and reduce network risks, including vulnerabilities, single points of failure, and aging or end-of-life infrastructure.
Serve as the top-level escalation point for complex network issues and lead technical response during critical incidents.
Lead root-cause analysis for major and recurring network issues and drive corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
Lead network changes through change management, including risk assessments, implementation plans, and back-out plans.
Maintain network and telecom documentation, diagrams, and operational procedures, and ensure operational readiness and knowledge transfer before new solutions go live.
Establish operational dashboards and reporting on network health and performance.
Support audit and compliance activities with network documentation and evidence, and lead remediation of network-related findings.
Provide technical oversight of vendors, service providers, and strategic technology partners, including service performance, escalations, and circuit delivery.
Contribute to budgeting and forecasting for network services, circuits, and lifecycle refresh; manage project budgets when serving as project lead.
Drive continuous improvement of network operations, processes, and tools.
Own enterprise network architecture, engineering, and lifecycle across LAN, WAN, data center, wireless, voice, remote access, and cloud connectivity environments.
Set enterprise network architectural direction and technical strategy aligned with business and technology needs.
Define, govern, and maintain network standards, reference architectures, and engineering practices, ensuring solutions align with them.
Lead high-level design reviews and make or recommend major technical decisions, including platform selection and technical footprint.
Evaluate technology trends, platforms, and business needs; recommend cost-effective solutions supported by cost-benefit, risk, and impact analysis.
Partner with infrastructure, cloud, cybersecurity, application, business, and operations teams to understand requirements and ensure network solutions meet business and system goals.
Communicate technical risks, options, recommendations, and business impact to IT leadership and business stakeholders.
Mentor and guide network engineers through design reviews, coaching, and knowledge sharing, and direct other engineers’ work on assigned initiatives as needed.
Perform other duties as assigned.
Participate in an on-call rotation and perform systems maintenance before and after normal business hours when required.
Travel to North American sites as needed to lead and support network infrastructure installation and maintenance.
Install and support a wide variety of enterprise-level network components, with or without reasonable accommodation.