Job Description

LRS Consulting Services is seeking a Hands-on Network Team Lead for Contract to Hire, Remote (EST/CST) opportunity. This role offers the chance to apply your skills in support of meaningful work for one of our client partners.

LRS Consulting Services has been delivering the highest quality consultants to our clients since 1979. We've built a solid reputation for dealing with our clients and our consultants with honesty, integrity, and respect. We work hard every day to maintain that reputation.

Senior hands-on leader for our client’s enterprise network across a large, multi-site footprint (600+ locations) plus datacenter and cloud connectivity. Owns network strategy, standards, and roadmap while leading day-to-day operations, reliability and a small team.

Drives SD-WAN/branch modernization, the move toward SSE / Zero Trust, network automation, and observability. Partners closely with Security, Infrastructure, and managed vendors.

Day to Day Responsibilities:

• Lead the team and delivery: mentor engineers/contractors, enforce change-control and documentation, own projects (site builds, refresh/EoL), and lead incident escalation   and fast response during incidents.
• Own architecture and standards: reference designs, segmentation, and a multi-year roadmap; design sign-off for new sites and major changes.
• Modernize the WAN/branch estate: optimize SD-WAN, firewalls, switching, and wireless across sites.
• Advance cloud and SASE: design and operate AWS/Azure connectivity; mature Zero Trust with Security.
• Strengthen automation and observability: maintain the network source-of-truth, extend automation,  and keep monitoring, alerting, and SLAs healthy.

Requirements:

•  Bachelor’s degree preferred
•  Mut have a minimum of 7-year enterprise networking experience with senior/lead responsibility in a multi-site environment (100+ sites preferred; healthcare or other regulated industry a plus)
• Proven team-lead / people-leadership experience
• Strong hands-on expertise across routing & switching, enterprise firewalls, SD-WAN, and wireless
• Cloud networking experience with AWS and Azure (hybrid connectivity)
• SASE / Zero Trust architecture and network segmentation
• Network automation (Python and/or Ansible) and modern observability/monitoring
• Expert troubleshooting and a source-of-truth / change-control discipline
• Experience with NAC preferred
• Infrastructure-as-Code experience preferred
• Unified communications/telephony experience preferred
• IPAA experience a plus
• CCNP/CCIE and an AWS or Azure networking certification a plus
• Candidate must be able to effectively communicate in English (written & verbal)

The base range for this contract position is $65 - $75 per hour, depending on experience. Our pay ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hires of this position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

LRS is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants for employment will receive consideration without unlawful discrimination based on race, color, religion, creed, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, gender identity, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, citizenship, status or protected veteran status.

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