Network Engineer

Job Description:

As Network Engineering Technical Advisor assigned to the Global Network Engineering team, this position will have significant responsibility for the creation, development, and implementation of global network and voice strategies for IHG. The Technical Advisor is utilized as the top level technical resource for complex network and voice infrastructure/environments. Technical Advisors support the department’s by providing and implementing technical solutions for WAN, Data Center (hosted, public and private cloud based), corporate LAN, global voice, global video and corporate Wi-Fi.  Ensure the development and implementation of company wide short and long term strategies for state of the art multi-user, multi-functional systems. Provide expertise in conducting project reviews to ensure solutions meet business objectives that optimize best use of network infrastructure and accessibility of data.  Provide expert technical direction, support, review, and training to appropriate technical staff.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities 

·         Collaborates with leaders, business analysts, project managers, IT architects, technical leads and other developers, along with internal customers, to understand requirements and develop needs according to business requirements

·         Facilitate the engineering, design and implementation of the network infrastructure projects on a variety of platforms. Develop and support appropriate complex documentation according to established IT standards. Strong contributor to roadmap definition, technical architecture and ongoing maintenance thereof.

·         Develop strategies for the continued planning, scheduling, and coordination of LAN/WAN/Data Center and other infrastructure  for reliability, scalability, availability and maintainability and monitor  results in order to take or assign required corrective action.

·         Advise on standards for hardware, software and configuration management. Ensure that departmental standards are documented, designed, distributed and updated on a regular basis for assigned network infrastructure development planning, product performance, support and monitoring.

·         Provide technical consultation in new project development and enhancement of existing network infrastructure; participate in structured walkthroughs and technical reviews.

·         Act as advisor to Sr. level IT management concerning strategic decisions concerning legacy and new technology

·         Responsible for initiating and leading technical discussions, training other resources and communicating to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

·         Participate in the design, engineering, implementation, deployment, documentation, testing, and ongoing capacity planning of infrastructure solutions (hardware, software and systems configuration solutions).

·         Participates in proofs of concept for technology solutions