Practice Lead - Networking

Own end-to-end delivery of all network and security implementations across the practice

Lead a team of L1 and L2 network engineers and grow the team as the practice scales

Remain hands-on in complex customer engagements, leading advanced implementations, troubleshooting, and technical escalations

Provide technical leadership to L1 and L2 engineers by mentoring, reviewing solutions, and supporting them on challenging issues

Design and review Low-Level Designs (LLDs) from solution-architect HLDs, typically within 5 working days of customer workshops

Take handover from the presales / solution-architect team during internal and external project kickoffs

Plan resources across multiple concurrent customer projects, sequencing work around customer readiness (cabling, terminations, site access)

Drive on-site customer workshops, planning sessions, and design conversations as the senior point of contact

Build automation — scripts, templated configurations, deployment playbooks — to scale repeatable deployments (e.g. 50-switch rollouts)

Conduct post-implementation customer reviews and obtain formal signoff on delivered scope

10–12 years of hands-on networking and security implementation experience

Proven experience leading a team of network engineers in a multi-customer delivery environment (System Integrator, OEM, or Distributor background)

Strong hands-on with firewall platforms: Cisco, Fortigate, and Palo Alto

Expertise in switching and Wi-Fi: HP Aruba and Cisco (Meraki, Catalyst, SF/SG)

NAC implementation experience with HP Aruba ClearPass or Cisco ISE

Security solutions experience with Cisco Umbrella and multi-factor authentication

Strong LLD design discipline and ability to drive design conversations with customers

Resource planning across multiple concurrent customer projects

Experience with Wi-Fi active heat-map surveys and remediation

Routing protocol depth — OSPF, BGP

Scripting / automation for repeatable network deployments

Background from comparable system integrators (Frontier, Team Computers, SOIH, etc.)