Lead DDI Engineer

Job Title : Lead DDI Engineer

Lead DDI Engineer

Location : OH - Columbus

OH - Columbus

What you'll do :

The Lead DDI Engineer spearheads complex IT Initiatives, designing, implementing, maintaining, and triaging enterprise DDI infrastructure and services.

They will guide a small team of engineers, influencing their contribution while working independently. Working closely with IT leadership, they will deliver engineering roadmap initiatives, drive continuous improvement and maturity.

In addition, the Lead DDI Engineer and team are responsible for defining, creating, and maintaining architecture diagrams, standard operating procedures, and other support documentation for their functional areas.

They will participate in an on-call rotation and complete planned service-impacting activities outside of normal business hours in line with change management processes. Some travel may be required.

What we are looking for :

Responsibilities

• Team leads a small group of engineers, developing the engineering roadmap, defining workstreams, and delegation.
• Plan, design, deploy and mature network infrastructure, services, and processes to meet business needs.
• Deliver annual OKRs & KPIs for service availability, capacity, and performance management.
• Provide escalation-level support to our incident, problem, and change management processes.
• Collaborate with IT Governance during assessments and audits, providing evidence to support the control framework.
• Procure and evaluate bleeding-edge technology solutions and present recommendations.
• Lead complex IT projects e.g., greenfield / brownfield deployments, vendor to vendor migrations, mergers & acquisitions.
• Drive standardization, reduce needless complexity and challenge convention.
• Create and maintain comprehensive engineering documentation.
• Ongoing proactive maintenance of network infrastructure & services.
• Participation in business continuity and disaster recovery planning, testing, and maturity.
• Participation in operational support 24x7 on-call rotation as required.
• Other duties as assigned.

Desired Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a closely related field.
• 9+ years IT engineering industry experience with evidence of ongoing professional development.
• Strong leadership, organization, and mentorship skills with demonstratable experience.
• Professional-level certifications with F5 Networks, Cisco, Palo Alto, or Infoblox.
• Extensive experience supporting mission-critical, highly regulated networks within finance or healthcare.
• Extensive experience supporting security frameworks & controls for HIPPA, PCI, SOX, CIS, NIST, ISO, etc.
• Extensive experience in solution architecture design & tech-lead within IT project delivery.
• Expert knowledge of enterprise networking, IP routing, packet switching, data flow analysis, etc.
• In-depth experience with Infoblox NIOS DDI managing enterprise DNS, DHCP, and IPAM.
• In-depth experience with Cloudflare managing domains, dns records, WAF, etc.
• Extensive experience with Microsoft Azure or AWS public clouds.
• Experience with F5 BIG-IP LTM & GTM Load balancers.
• Experience with Palo Alto firewalls, Cisco Firepower firewalls & Cisco AnyConnect VPN.
• Extensive experience operating within an ITIL ITSM organization with a background using ServiceNow.
• Extensive experience with diagramming software such as Lucidchart or Microsoft Visio
• Experience using tools such as SolarWinds, Netbrain, LiveAction, ThousandEyes, AppDynamics, ELK, etc.
• Excellent communication skills, directly interfacing IT leadership, business stakeholders and technical teams.
• Experience scripting in Python, Perl, or PowerShell a plus.

Benefits you’ll love :

We offer all the important things you'd want like competitive salaries, an ownership stake in the company, medical and dental insurance, time off, a great 401k matching program, tuition assistance program, an employee volunteer program, and a wellness program.

In addition, you’ll have the opportunity to bolster your business knowledge, learning the ins and outs of how successful companies operate and manage their finances, giving you invaluable hands-on experience to help grow your career!