Senior Network Engineer

Role Title: Senior Network Engineer II

Position Summary:

The Global Networks - Global Wide Area Network (GWAN) Team is responsible for

creating and improving secure network services and solutions that ensure the best

experience possible for Associates, contractors, and customers. This Network

Engineer will be part of a team driving the delivery of Marriott’s zero trust network

roadmap via leading edge technologies including, Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access,

SDWAN, Cloud Networking, and AI/ML enablement. We are looking for a critical thinker

who embraces the goal of a fully automated network to help us deliver on our major

initiative to transform our global wide area network, providing the foundation for Marriott’s

cloud first strategy.

Job Responsibilities:

• LAN / WAN / WiFi network design, engineering, implementation, and optimization for

the Corporate Network product, adhering to all applicable standards including

architecture, security, privacy, compliance, etc. with a heavy focus on global WiFi

networking.

• Network service and circuit capacity management

• Project planning and delivery including hardware and software specification, vendor

coordination, and full operational turnover

• Change planning and run book review

• Governance of third-party service providers

• Level 3 escalation support for operational issues and/or outages

• Collaborate with other key teams including Network Architects, Test and Certification,

Information Security, Finance, Procurement, etc.

• Participate in product strategy and planning

• Develop and execute new initiatives to simplify, standardize, optimize, and automate

the network designs, tooling, and operations, reducing implementation cycle times,

minimizing/eliminating service downtime, and optimizing performance

Skill and Experience:

• 6+ years’ experience as a Network Engineer with 5 or more years in a hands-on role

that implements engineering standards, documenting engineering designs, and

participating in project cutovers.

• Implementation of WAN, LAN, and datacenter networks with a focus on

mission-critical, customer-facing applications and services

• Technical Knowledge in networking (Cisco and non-Cisco) with an emphasis on

software defined networking (SDN), firewalls, DNS, NTP, Network Tools and

Management as well as common routing protocols (OSPF, BGP, etc) deployed across

large global networks

• Direct experience deploying and supporting Prisma Access services including FWaaS

and Global Protect.

• Experience designing and delivering networking service in public clouds such as AWS,

Azure, AliCloud, GCP, OCI, etc

• Experience designing and delivering WAN connectivity to public clouds utilizing CSP

native connect solutions as well as other service offerings to create the underlay WAN

fabric for the network

• Experience with writing Infrastructure as a Code for Cloud network components (VPC,

RT, TGW, WAN, Shared Services) as well as Firewalls as a Service, SDWAN,

SSE/SASE.