Network Engineer Lead

Salary: ₱30,000 – ₱35,000 per month

About the role

Network Lead / Architect with primary focus on architecture and governance across three airports. The role involves designing and enforcing network, firewall, and SD-WAN standards, monitoring network and HCI capacity for future upgrades, and governing NOC providers, Wi-Fi providers, data center/HCI providers, and carriers against their SLAs.

Key responsibilities

• Define and enforce network, firewall, and SD-WAN design standards across all three airports

• Monitor network and HCI capacity to plan future upgrades

• Govern the NOC Provider, Wi-Fi providers, data center/HCI providers, and carriers against their SLAs

• Validate the NOC Provider's escalation matrices, monitoring coverage, alert thresholds, and runbooks

• Conduct the monthly service review with the CIO, Airports

• Architect the high-density Wi-Fi setup by building capacity models, specifying AP density/placement, determining SSID design, and generating a bill of materials to meet the 20 Mbps per user target

About you

• 10+ years in network and infrastructure engineering, including 3+ years specifically leading network architecture

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, ECE (Electronics and Communications Engineering), or IT

• CCNP (Cisco Certified Network Professional) or CCIE (Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert) certification required

• ITIL certification required

• Highly proficient in routing and switching, SD-WAN, high-density Wi-Fi, firewalls, virtualization/HCI (Hyperconverged Infrastructure), and Disaster Recovery (DR)

• Experience in aviation, telco, or critical infrastructure preferred

• Fortinet NSE certification preferred

• Able to start ASAP

• Must be open for an initial of 6 months project type of employment (co-terminus with the project)