Lead, Network Plan Engrg

Description:
**Network Operations Lead**

**Mission Networks**

**Melbourne or Canberra**

**About the opportunity**:
**Essential Functions**:

- Provides leadership oversight of third-party consortium teammates on network operations and service management, who support a 24/7 operating environment
- Develop practices and processes aligning with service lifecycle management functions to include: Change Management, Configuration Management, Incident Management, Problem Management, Event Management, Knowledge Management, and Service Improvement
- Provide indirect management oversight over the full end-to-end technology life cycle within the network space to include Routing and Switching, Radio Frequency (RF), and Airport Surveillance solutions
- Maintain and validate quality network service by establishing and enforcing managed hosting standards, metrics and industry best practices
- Support stakeholder requests inclusive of Service Orders, Service Disconnects, and User Account creation
- Plan, design, and work with consortium teammates to build, install and configure new network and security capabilities to meet the needs of an enterprise network
- Anticipate risks and constraints and proactively develop solutions to mitigate impacts to schedule and user experience
- A consultative approach to all major activities and projects. Including the ability to effectively and accurately document requirements and develop clear execution plans

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of nine (9) years of prior relevant work experience or
- Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience.
- Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) v4 practitioner, with a minimum of four (4) years of experience designing and implementing best practices in an Operations Center.

**Desirable Skills**:

- Air Traffic Management operations and procedures
- Experience with network operations tools such as ServiceNow, Grafana, InfluxDB, Cisco DNA Center, VMware, Splunk, Icinga, Netbox
- Experience with continual improvement of network operations procedures
- Network operations training
- Ability to supervise and motivate others
- Ability to work with others to resolve problems, handle requests or situations
- Proven experience of network design and implementation
- Advanced networking knowledge to include Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN), SD-LAN, MPLS, DWDM, and Pseudo-wire Emulation (PWE)
- Extensive experience with Cisco routers and switches, Juniper routers and switches, Rohde & Schwarz radio systems, VMware, and Telephony technologies
- Detailed understanding of network security, including Firewalls, VPNs, Proxies, DDI
- An understanding of automation tools such as Ansible and scripting languages such as Python would be an advantage
- Data analytics experience

**About us**

L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing diverse, high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.

L3Harris Technologies is an agile global aerospace and defence technology innovator, delivering end-to-end solutions that meet customers’ mission-critical needs. The company provides advanced defence and commercial technologies across air, land, sea, space and cyber domains. L3Harris has approximately $18 billion in annual revenue and 48,000 employees, with customers in more than 100 countries.

**A few of our employee benefits are**:

- 5 Weeks annual leave
- Flexible working hours and hybrid working where possible
- Flexible annual leave (buy & sell up to 2 weeks)
- Salary continuance insurance (SCI pays 75% of your base salary and bonus for up to
- 2 years)
- Discounted private health insurance
- Life & Total Permanent Disability Cover
- Novated Car Leasing

**Important to know**

Due to the nature of our work many our roles require an Australian nationality and the ability to obtain a security clearance. Applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment must meet eligibility.
- Eligibility and clearance process information can be found at;_
- _**L3Harris respectfully requests no agency submissions at this time.