# Network Engineering Lead- L3

Network Engineering Lead- L3 Location: Austin, Texas - (Hybrid -1-2 days per week] Job Summary We are seeking a highly experienced L3 Network Engineering Lead to provide senior-level support for production enterprise and data center networks. The role is the final operational escalation point and requires independent ownership of complex network incidents, configuration changes, upgrades, carrier issues, and hardware failures. Key Responsibilities · Resolve complex network incidents escalated from L1/L2 teams. · Lead major/severity incidents and drive them through permanent resolution. · Troubleshoot routing, switching, firewall, WAN, data center, hardware, and connectivity issues. · Implement and validate production network configuration changes. · Plan and execute network software/firmware upgrades with appropriate validation and rollback procedures. · Troubleshoot carrier circuits, optical issues, link failures, and loss of redundancy. · Diagnose network hardware failures and manage vendor RMA cases end to end. · Prepare MOPs, incident timelines, RCA documentation, and technical procedures. · Coordinate with carriers, vendors, onsite technicians, and cross-functional teams durin

- **Id**: 4189562
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cognizant-network-engineering-lead-l3>
- **Role**: Networking
- **Role family**: Networking
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Austin, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 9
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T08:53:47Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T19:03:33Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3213
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Life insurance, Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: IT Consulting & Digital Transformation, IT Outsourcing & Dedicated Teams, Engineering Services, Cloud Consulting & Migration

## Company

- **Id**: 85
- **Name**: Cognizant
- **Domain**: cognizant.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/cognizant>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: services
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Cognizant Careers

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 88
- **Open postings**: 200
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.455
- **Repost share**: 0.06
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 24
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 99000
- **Max**: 115000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 115000

## Technologies

- **BGP** — Optional: no
- **Incident Management** — Optional: no
- **Layer 2** — Optional: no
- **OSPF** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 9
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T19:03:33Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 8,264; Filings 12m: 8264

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 24
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T21:54:29Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 115000
- **Is top pay**: no

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