Senior Network Engineer - Bethesda, MD

Marriott International, the world’s largest hotel company, is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to design and manage optimal LAN and WAN networks. The role involves overseeing projects related to network implementation and service delivery while continuously improving operations processes and mentoring team members.

Responsibilities:

• Designing optimal LAN and WAN networks comprising of routers, switches, firewalls, and load-balancers, provide design and Architecture support to networks in data centers, corporate offices, and third-party co-location PoP sites all which host applications and interconnect hotel properties, users, systems, partners, vendors, and public and private cloud networks with a focus on disaster recovery
• Manage Data Center & Cloud Networks products and solutions, including the design, low level engineering, and delivery of new hardware systems for Marriott applications across the cloud and datacenter network
• Approve and oversee projects to implement and maintain services while meeting deadlines
• Manage vendors to meet obligations for engineering design, network implementation, and technical support service delivery and service restoration
• Continuously improve operations processes, develop, and present best practices, technical concepts and technologies for innovative Data Center & Cloud Networks solutions
• Contribute input to help manage project schedules, risks, and costs
• Train and/or mentor other team members and peers, as appropriate
• Establish cross-team relationships across Marriott to help define services and meet service level requirements
• Serve as an escalation point to resolve service delivery and operational issues
• Identify opportunities to enhance the service delivery processes
• Follow all defined standards and processes (e.g. IT Governance, SM&G, and Architecture)
• Provide input for improvements to the appropriate process owners as needed
• Maintain a proper balance between business and operational risk
• Follow the defined project management and/or standards and processes

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Engineering, Information Systems, Information Technology or a closely related field followed by 7 years of progressively responsible professional network engineering or development experience
• 5 years of experience in an IT infrastructure lead role including areas of routing protocols, switch fabric technology, firewall security, and load-balancing architecture
• 5 years of experience with network routing protocols (BGP), subnetting, network ARPs and traceroute
• 4 years of experience with Palo Alto and Check Point firewalls
• 4 years of experience with AWS networking services (VPC, Direct Connect, Route 53, Transit Gateway etc.) and Azure networking services (Virtual Networks, ExpressRoute, DNS, etc.)
• 4 years of experience in technical writing and delivering written document pertaining to network solutions and diagrams
• 4 years of experience managing hospitality environment network architecture including routing and security to property management systems