ICT Senior Network Engineer

About Us: Marriott International Inc., headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, USA, was founded in May 1927 by J. Willard Marriott and Alice S. Marriott with a modest nine-seat A&W root beer stand. Guided by the family's leadership and core principles, Marriott International today has grown into a global hospitality giant, operating approximately 9,000 properties and over 30 leading brands in more than 140 countries and territories.

From such humble beginnings to becoming the world's largest hotel company, Marriott International has never stopped searching for inventive ways to serve its customers, provide opportunities for its associates, and grow their business. At Marriott Tech Accelerator, we are a team of passionate engineering minds dedicated to creating and building cutting-edge solutions that streamline operations and elevate guest experiences.

Role Title: Senior Network Engineer I

Marriott International is transforming its global network technology to offer the most advanced, secure, reliable, and scalable networks in the hospitality industry. Building a software defined, regionalized network that is scalable leveraging cloud infrastructure is a key enabler to drive this transformation.To help lead this initiative, we are seeking an innovative and hands-on Sr. Network Engineer for our Property Network Operations Engineering team overseeing Marriott's next generation network infrastructure at our 9,000+ properties globally. This position supports daily operations in the engineering and maintaining SD-WAN, routing, switching, and firewall network solutions. If you understand branch office network connectivity and security, this could be the role for you.

We are looking for a leader who has proven hands-on experience in:

Design and implementation experience in different networking technologies such as Route & Switch networks, Firewalls, WAN, Network Monitoring Tools, and Network security infrastructure.

Experience supporting a global enterprise network with 4,000+ branch sites or similar scale service providers in areas of SD-WAN, routing, switching, and firewalling.

Operating networks and managing KPIs for network availability and performance.

Driving operational processes to improve network uptime, performance, and recovery.

Leveraging network instrumentation and automation to identify meaningful insights from network performance.

As an individual contributor or member of a project team support successful implementation of property network projects

Provides technical input to the overall architectural and operational discussions around property network infrastructure and tools.

Act as an active contributor in delivering our products on time by participating and delivering work through scrum practices.

Conducts research, design and implementation of Network infrastructure solutions and builds standard practices across property network operations.

Make recommendations to improve Network automation solutions that enhance the operations and cost structures of the Marriott environment

Create and make available project documentation with a focus on communicating technical features and functions of solutions

Participates in and suggests improvements to standards configuration, change management processes and practices

Develop test plans, implementation plans, and project timelines for various projects and tasks

Managing Projects and Priorities:

Provides direction and assistance to other teams regarding projects.

Determines priorities, schedules, plans and necessary resources to promote completion of any projects on schedule.

Thinks creatively and practically to develop, execute and implement new project plans.

Plans, develops, implements, and evaluates the quality of operations.

Supports achievement of performance goals, budget goals, team goals, etc.

Providing Technical Support and Consultation:

Skill and Experience :

~4-6 years' experience as a Network Engineer with Designing and Implementing complex networking.

~2+ years' experience being part of a network operations team

~ Experience working in a Scrum team or other Agile methodologies

~ Experience in researching emerging technologies and trends, standards, and products and synthesizing into clear technology roadmaps and strategies

~ Excellent verbal and written communication skills for a wide range of audiences including executives, business stakeholders, and IT teams

~ Implementation of SD-WAN, LAN, and branch networks with a focus on mission-critical, customer-facing applications and services

~ Technical knowledge in networking (Cisco and non-Cisco) with an emphasis on branch networks, SD-WAN, LAN, Network security and Management tools and core network services such as DNS, NTP & IPAM.

~ Demonstrated experience in delivering written documents detailing network solutions and diagrams

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field experience / certification

Certification in network and/or security technologies (e.g., Hybrid

Being part of Marriott Tech Accelerator means being part of a proud history and a thriving culture.

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