Senior Manager, Datacenter Network

Role Overview

• Hires, evaluates, and supervises crew
• Provides guidance and training as necessary to develop crew
• Sets performance standards, reviews performance, and makes informed compensation decisions
• Oversees the network team, which provides network services, including designing, installing, configuring, and integrating new network technologies
• Ensures network installations meet standards and align with the divisional strategy
• Manages the resolution of complex issues elevated from Support Center and Technical Services groups
• Ensures problem identification, escalation, and resolution occurs expediently on all platforms
• Oversees the implementation and maintenance of policies and procedures, system monitoring and automation, and troubleshooting activities
• Identifies opportunities for continuous improvement
• Ensures the maintenance of the telecom network documentation repository
• Participates in the development of short and long term department goals
• Implements operational plans to achieve department objectives
• Ensures service level commitments are clearly understood to meet business needs
• Manages the testing, evaluation, and selection of vendor products and manages relationships with vendors
• Ensures compliance with Information Technology and Information Security policies and procedures within the team
• Leads the management and strategy of data center network fabrics, including leaf-spine architectures and software-defined networking (SDN) solutions
• Ensures data center network architectures support high availability, fault isolation, east-west traffic optimization, and automation
• Partners with server, storage, virtualization, and security teams to ensure consistent, end-to-end infrastructure design across compute and network domains
• Evaluates and manages data center networking technologies and vendors based on scalability, operational complexity, TCO, and lifecycle alignment
• Collaborates with Network management peers to ensure consistent end-to-end availability and performance of Vanguard’s network services
• Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Minimum of ten years related work experience
• Network experience preferred
• Undergraduate degree in a related field or the equivalent combination of training and experience
• Graduate degree preferred
• Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP), Cisco Certified Internetwork Engineer (CCIE), or Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP) preferred
• Working knowledge of data center networking concepts, including BGP, EVPN, VXLAN, and leaf-spine topologies
• Experience managing senior technical engineers and enterprise networking vendors
• Understanding of integrating a comprehensive network stack and hybrid cloud connectivity.

Tech Stack

• Cloud

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Flexible working hours
• Paid time off