What impact will you have in this role? We are hiring a Senior Manager of Networking Engineering for one of our local clients. Are you a Manager who has lead global Network Engineers responsible for a global network, private and public clouds, data centers, and network infrastructure? This role will manage a team of Network Engineers globally dispersed, and be responsible for all Customer products and database backend services in the network, cloud, and data center. We are seeking a people first, innovation, change oriented, transformational leader to help us with our strategic global enterprise network and operations initiatives. What will you be doing day-to-day?
Lead and manage a team of network engineers. Provide strategic direction, oversee day-to-day activities, and manage all network driven project deliverables.
Work directly with peers, senior leadership, and team members from Technology, Security, Risk and Compliance, Site Reliability Engineering, and Product to develop and implement standardized network solutions across the landscape, both on-premises and cloud.
Responsible for network transformation – goals, roadmap, and delivery, to ensure the network aligns with strategic growth imperatives.
Proven ability to lead an engineering team responsible for architecture, design, and implementation of SD-WAN and cloud native solutions.
Ability to translate business requirements into low-level design criteria and facilitate collaborative engineering sessions that result in highly available network solutions.
Demonstrate a proven track record of success as a leader within fast paced and dynamic environments that span multiple geographical regions.
Exhibit the ability to leverage interpersonal skills to bring teams and leaders together to meet/exceed organizational goals.
Leverage business acumen to compile business justification of conceptual ideas to include financial impact, level of effort, benefits/tradeoffs for executive consumption.
Manage strategic partnerships with vendors to ensure the engineering team stays abreast of industry trends, to include leading proof of concept and product/service evaluation workstreams.
Partner with technology vendors and procurement peers to validate financial costs – capital and expense, statement of work (terms and conditions) that represent technology solutions vetted by network engineering tech leads.
What technical skills are required to be successful in this role?
4-year university degree or college diploma in computer studies or 8 years equivalent working experience within enterprise networking
5+ years as manager for network engineering function, specifically design and delivery expertise
Functional knowledge of networking and data communication fundamentals including connectivity methods, security functions, and routing/switching protocols – both cloud and on-premises
Working knowledge of internetworking and security standards (RFC and IETF)
Expert knowledge of OSI model
Fundamental networking principles (TCP/IP, OSPF, BGP and EIGRP)
Technical expertise with F5 load-balancer technology
Working experience with the following: application firewall inspection, web application firewall, intrusion detection/prevention, dynamic web filtering, internet proxy, firewall management and audit tools
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