Network Engineer
The corporate team at Light & Wonder is comprised of incredible talent that works across the enterprise, defying boundaries to provide essential services in an extraordinary manner to ensure the success of the organisation and the well-being of employees.
This role provides operational support for the network infrastructure, including troubleshooting complex issues and collaborating with other teams within IT and external stakeholders across a multinational enterprise.
The position involves designing and implementing network solutions across campus and datacentre networks. It also provides expert technical support and guidance on complex design issues.
This role serves as an escalation point for the service desk globally, providing technical expertise and guidance. It also participates in IT work related to mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures, including network integration and separation.
Responsibilities include conducting network discovery and documentation to ensure that the network is accurately represented and maintained. Proactive utilisation and development of network monitoring tools to notify the team of any issues is also key.
Monitoring network performance and capacity and making recommendations for improvements and upgrades is required. Staying current with emerging technologies and industry trends to ensure that the network infrastructure is up to date and effective is also part of the role.
Data centre operations experience is essential, including build and maintain rack, cable, power, High Availability options, capacity planning and forecasting, disaster recovery/business continuity, load balancing and architectures.
- Provide operational support for the network infrastructure, including troubleshooting complex issues and collaborating with other teams within IT and external stakeholders across a multinational enterprise.
- Design and implement network solutions across campus and datacentre networks.
- Provide expert technical support and guidance on complex design issues.
- Serve as an escalation point for the service desk globally, providing technical expertise and guidance.
- Participate in IT work related to mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures, including network integration and separation.
- Conduct network discovery and documentation to ensure that the network is accurately represented and maintained.
- Proactively utilise and develop network monitoring tools to notify the team of any issues.
- Monitor network performance and capacity and make recommendations for improvements and upgrades.
- Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends to ensure that the network infrastructure is up to date and effective.
- Data Center operations experience – Build and maintain rack, cable, power, High Availability options, capacity planning and forecasting, disaster recovery/business continuity, load balancing and architectures.
- BS or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, MIS or related field (or commensurate experience) (required)
- CCNP Enterprise, Data Center or Security is desirable (preferred)
- 3+ years' experience working as a network engineer in an enterprise environment (required)
- Experience working on merger, acquisition or divestiture related network integrations at an Enterprise level would be highly advantageous (preferred)
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills (required)
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills (required)
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team (required)
- Strong business acumen, action oriented and results driven (required)
- Project management methodologies and techniques (required)
- Routing Protocols (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, PIM), static routing, redistribution and policy-based routing (required)
- High Availability (StackWise, VSS, VPC, LACP, PAgP) (required)
- Overlay Technologies (VXLAN, BGP EVPN, Cisco ACI) (required)
- WAN Technologies (MPLS, SD-WAN, DMVPN, IKEv1, IKEv2, GRE) (required)
- Firewalls (Cisco ASA, Cisco Firepower, FortiGate) (required)
- Remote Access VPN Technologies and Posture Assessment (required)
- Cisco ISE for authentication and NAC (required)
- Network Services (DHCP, DNS, RADIUS, NTP, TACACS+) (required)
- Enterprise Wi-Fi and RF Planning (required)
- NX-OS, IOS-XE, IOS-XR (required)
Light & Wonder, Inc. is a leading cross-platform gaming company headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada. Formerly known as Scientific Games, it rebranded in 2022 after divesting its lottery and sports-betting businesses to focus on gaming. The company operates across three segments - Gaming (slot machines, table games and casino systems under brands such as Bally, WMS and Shuffle Master), SciPlay (social casino games) and iGaming (online casino content). Listed in both the US and Australia, it supplies content and systems to casinos and online operators worldwide.