Lead Network Engineer
The Walt Disney Company (France), Raleigh, NC, United States
At Disney, we’re storytellers. We make the impossible, possible. The Walt Disney Company (TWDC) is a world‑class entertainment and technological leader. Walt’s passion was to continuously envision new ways to move audiences around the world—a passion that remains our touchstone in an enterprise that stretches from theme parks, resorts and a cruise line to sports, news, movies and a variety of other businesses. Uniting each endeavor is a commitment to creating and delivering unforgettable experiences — and we’re constantly looking for new ways to enhance these exciting experiences.
The Enterprise Technology mission is to deliver technology solutions that align to business strategies while enabling enterprise efficiency and promoting cross‑company collaborative innovation. Our group drives competitive advantage by enhancing our consumer experiences, enabling business growth, and advancing operational excellence.
What You’ll Do:
The Lead Network Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting purpose‑built networks. This role serves as the technical leader for the network engineering and operations team, ensuring consistency, scalability, reliability, and alignment with long‑term business and technology strategies.
As the lead network engineer, this individual will be responsible for peer approvals, technical guidance and maintain technical expertise. In addition, this role provides mentorship, technical leadership, and Tier 3 escalation support to the Network engineering and operations teams while partnering closely with stakeholders across the organization.
The Lead Network Engineer works closely with the business to collaboratively ideate, develop and implement innovative technology solutions that enable business unit capability needs. The Lead is seen as a critical partner to the business unit team, and partners closely through all aspects of solution development and deployment.
Mentors team members in the areas of technical aptitude and expertise, soft skills, risk analysis and relationship management
Adeptly performs relationship management across all levels of the business unit and network services teams
Directly participates in and oversees the design, engineering and deployment of business unit network solutions and capabilities
Advocates for the business unit, and it needs in driving new standards, processes and the adoption of new technologies
Oversee and manage quality service delivery from vendors and 3rd parties
Performs risk management with respect to project oversight and solution development oversight, quickly raising issues to leadership
Applies business rationale in the review of designs and solutions developed by the team, ensuring fit for use and financial efficacy
Understands how data can improve efficiency and employs methods to exploit these benefits
Provides expert technical leadership and is adept in the core technologies required
BU specific technologies – expert understanding of not only core network concepts and technologies, but also maintains working knowledge of BU specific technologies
Drives development and enhancement of vendor technologies, strategies and roadmaps
Drives adherence to technical standards, and where appropriate, proposes new standards and technologies
Required Skills & Qualifications:
Minimum of 7+ years of technology evaluation, problem resolution and project management experience
5+ years of technology evaluation, problem resolution and project management experience
Advanced communication skills, particularly the ability to communicate technical information to non‑technical audiences
Demonstrated ability to work with a wide array of technical and managerial personnel to solve complex problems
Strong customer service skills and orientation
Knowledge of film entertainment, hospitality, video distribution, multicast and broadcast
Experience in Wide area and Local Area network design, configuration, installation, evaluation, problem resolution, and project management
Deep understanding of network concepts such as LAN, WAN, Internet and WiFi
Demonstrated ability to lead, coordinate, and oversee complex projects
Strong presentation skills
Adept at written and oral communications
Strong requirements facilitation skills
Ability to interface and collaborate directly with IT constituents, executives, business partners, and vendors
Ability to think innovatively
Self‑organizing and motivated
Has demonstrated success in the areas of team leadership, management and mentorship
Can scale influence and leadership across a broad array business use cases and projects
Understands and can practically apply the concepts of infrastructure service delivery, and service roadmaps
Seeks to understand customer perspective/feedback and informs leadership (voice of the customer)
Thinks in terms of technologies and business/technical capabilities
Can comprehend and apply architecture and frameworks to engineering designs and design reviews
Understands delivery of infrastructure as a service
Possesses strong communication skills resulting in the ability to produce clear, concise and consumable verbal and written communications/depictions
Is self‑organizing and capable of autonomous execution
Is self‑aware
Is able to effectively interact with cross functional senior technical and executive resources
Preferred Qualifications:
Core vendor specific certifications (Cisco and/or Arista and/or Palo Alto)
Required Education:
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Network Engineering, Electrical Engineering or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
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The hiring range for this position in Raleigh, NC and Morrisville, NC is $148,300 to $198,800 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job‑related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long‑term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.
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The Enterprise Technology mission is to deliver technology solutions that align to business strategies while enabling enterprise efficiency and promoting cross‑company collaborative innovation. Our group drives competitive advantage by enhancing our consumer experiences, enabling business growth, and advancing operational excellence.
What You’ll Do:
The Lead Network Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting purpose‑built networks. This role serves as the technical leader for the network engineering and operations team, ensuring consistency, scalability, reliability, and alignment with long‑term business and technology strategies.
As the lead network engineer, this individual will be responsible for peer approvals, technical guidance and maintain technical expertise. In addition, this role provides mentorship, technical leadership, and Tier 3 escalation support to the Network engineering and operations teams while partnering closely with stakeholders across the organization.
The Lead Network Engineer works closely with the business to collaboratively ideate, develop and implement innovative technology solutions that enable business unit capability needs. The Lead is seen as a critical partner to the business unit team, and partners closely through all aspects of solution development and deployment.
Mentors team members in the areas of technical aptitude and expertise, soft skills, risk analysis and relationship management
Adeptly performs relationship management across all levels of the business unit and network services teams
Directly participates in and oversees the design, engineering and deployment of business unit network solutions and capabilities
Advocates for the business unit, and it needs in driving new standards, processes and the adoption of new technologies
Oversee and manage quality service delivery from vendors and 3rd parties
Performs risk management with respect to project oversight and solution development oversight, quickly raising issues to leadership
Applies business rationale in the review of designs and solutions developed by the team, ensuring fit for use and financial efficacy
Understands how data can improve efficiency and employs methods to exploit these benefits
Provides expert technical leadership and is adept in the core technologies required
BU specific technologies – expert understanding of not only core network concepts and technologies, but also maintains working knowledge of BU specific technologies
Drives development and enhancement of vendor technologies, strategies and roadmaps
Drives adherence to technical standards, and where appropriate, proposes new standards and technologies
Required Skills & Qualifications:
Minimum of 7+ years of technology evaluation, problem resolution and project management experience
5+ years of technology evaluation, problem resolution and project management experience
Advanced communication skills, particularly the ability to communicate technical information to non‑technical audiences
Demonstrated ability to work with a wide array of technical and managerial personnel to solve complex problems
Strong customer service skills and orientation
Knowledge of film entertainment, hospitality, video distribution, multicast and broadcast
Experience in Wide area and Local Area network design, configuration, installation, evaluation, problem resolution, and project management
Deep understanding of network concepts such as LAN, WAN, Internet and WiFi
Demonstrated ability to lead, coordinate, and oversee complex projects
Strong presentation skills
Adept at written and oral communications
Strong requirements facilitation skills
Ability to interface and collaborate directly with IT constituents, executives, business partners, and vendors
Ability to think innovatively
Self‑organizing and motivated
Has demonstrated success in the areas of team leadership, management and mentorship
Can scale influence and leadership across a broad array business use cases and projects
Understands and can practically apply the concepts of infrastructure service delivery, and service roadmaps
Seeks to understand customer perspective/feedback and informs leadership (voice of the customer)
Thinks in terms of technologies and business/technical capabilities
Can comprehend and apply architecture and frameworks to engineering designs and design reviews
Understands delivery of infrastructure as a service
Possesses strong communication skills resulting in the ability to produce clear, concise and consumable verbal and written communications/depictions
Is self‑organizing and capable of autonomous execution
Is self‑aware
Is able to effectively interact with cross functional senior technical and executive resources
Preferred Qualifications:
Core vendor specific certifications (Cisco and/or Arista and/or Palo Alto)
Required Education:
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Network Engineering, Electrical Engineering or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
#DISNEYTECH
The hiring range for this position in Raleigh, NC and Morrisville, NC is $148,300 to $198,800 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job‑related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long‑term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.
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