Job Description
Job Description
Required Skills & Experience
- 5+ years of enterprise networking experience
- Technical leadership experience
- Strong hands-on experience with Cisco routing, switching, and wireless technologies
- Experience with WAN/LAN, SD-WAN, VLANs, BGP, OSPF, DNS, DHCP, SNMP, syslog, and 802.1X
- Working knowledge of Cisco ISE/NAC
- Experience with enterprise network monitoring
- Experience managing network infrastructure hardware lifecycle and EOL/EOS replacement
- Experience with ITIL-based incident, problem, and change management
- Ability to lead complex network outages and root-cause analysis
- Experience managing vendors and/or managed network service providers
- Strong leadership, communication, and documentation skills
Nice to Have Skills & Experience
- CCNP or equivalent experience
- Cisco ISE
- Cisco Catalyst Center
- SolarWinds
- ServiceNow
- Infoblox
- Check Point
- SD-WAN
- Sumo Logic
- ThousandEyes or similar network monitoring tools
- Experience supporting manufacturing, industrial, or distributed enterprise environments
Job Description
The Network Manager will lead the operation, reliability, security, and modernization of enterprise network infrastructure. This is a hands-on leadership role responsible for WAN/LAN, wireless, Cisco ISE/NAC, SD-WAN, network monitoring, network hardware lifecycle, and major incident/problem management.
This individual will lead network engineers, coordinate with vendors and managed service providers, and ensure network services remain reliable, secure, and scalable across a distributed enterprise environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead enterprise WAN, LAN, wireless, and SD-WAN operations and engineering.
- Manage Cisco ISE/NAC, including authentication, authorization, device profiling, posture, and network access policies.
- Oversee the lifecycle of network infrastructure, including routers, switches, wireless controllers, access points, SD-WAN appliances, and other network components.
- Maintain network hardware standards, inventory, configuration standards, and EOL/EOS replacement plans.
- Ensure WAN redundancy, failover capabilities, monitoring, and availability.
- Lead major network incidents, root-cause analysis, problem management, and corrective actions.
- Manage proactive network monitoring, alerting, capacity planning, and performance management.
- Oversee network vulnerabilities, firmware/software upgrades, and configuration compliance.
- Ensure network changes follow appropriate testing, approval, validation, and rollback practices.
- Maintain network diagrams, configurations, asset information, and operational documentation.
- Lead and develop network engineers while coordinating with vendors and managed service providers.
- Partner with cybersecurity, infrastructure, cloud, service desk, and other technology teams.