Hybrid Lead Network Operations Engineer

Strategic Employment Partners (SEP); Buena Park (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k up to 10% employer contribution

Low-cost medical

Generous PTO

Job summary

Strategic Employment Partners (SEP) supports a well-established organization hiring a Lead Network Operations Engineer in Buena Park, CA. This role blends people leadership (about 75% shift supervision) with hands-on technical work to manage complex incidents.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of NOC experience, direct BGP troubleshooting, and a track record leading engineers, driving incident response, monitoring, and process improvements in a large-scale network.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on NOC experience in a large-scale production network environment with BGP troubleshooting.
• Demonstrated shift lead or people management experience with accountability for reports and ticket quality.
• Hands-on incident response, escalation ownership, and network monitoring tooling experience.
• Familiarity with automation tools such as Python or Ansible applied to NOC workflows.
• MPLS experience is a plus; DWDM is not expected.

Responsibilities

• Lead the NOC shift, providing supervision and accountability for the team.
• Run point on complex incidents and drive timely resolution and root-cause analysis.
• Own escalation processes, ticket discipline, and continuous improvement of monitoring workflows.

Skills

NOC leadership

BGP troubleshooting

Incident response

Network monitoring

Automation (Python/Ansible)

Tools

Zabbix

Python

Ansible

Job description

Strategic Employment Partners (SEP) supports a well-established organization hiring a Lead Network Operations Engineer in Buena Park, CA. This role blends people leadership (about 75% shift supervision) with hands-on technical work to manage complex incidents.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of NOC experience, direct BGP troubleshooting, and a track record leading engineers, driving incident response, monitoring, and process improvements in a large-scale network.