Network Engineering Manager

Role & responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, maintenance, and optimization of enterprise network infrastructure to ensure high availability, performance, scalability, and security.
• Develop network architecture and engineering strategies aligned with business requirements and organizational IT objectives.
• Manage enterprise LAN/WAN, routing and switching, wireless networks, VPNs, SD-WAN, and data center connectivity.
• Oversee the configuration and administration of network devices, including routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, and wireless controllers.
• Implement network security policies, access controls, segmentation, firewall rules, intrusion prevention, and secure remote access solutions.
• Manage network monitoring, performance analysis, capacity planning, and proactive troubleshooting to minimize downtime.
• Lead network upgrades, infrastructure migrations, technology refreshes, and network expansion projects.
• Design and maintain resilient network architectures with redundancy, failover mechanisms, high availability, and disaster recovery capabilities.
• Drive network automation initiatives using Python, Ansible, APIs, and software-defined networking technologies.
• Manage cloud networking and hybrid connectivity across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud environments.
• Establish network engineering standards, configuration baselines, documentation, operational procedures, and change management practices.
• Lead incident response, root-cause analysis, problem management, and resolution of complex network issues.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity, cloud, infrastructure, application, and IT operations teams to ensure seamless connectivity and service delivery.
• Manage network vendors, service providers, technology partners, budgets, and service-level agreements (SLAs).
• Ensure compliance with organizational security policies, industry standards, and applicable regulatory requirements.
• Lead, mentor, and develop network engineers, allocate resources, and monitor team performance.
• Evaluate emerging networking technologies and recommend solutions that improve reliability, security, performance, and cost efficiency.

Preferred candidate profile

• Bachelors or master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Telecommunications, or a related technical discipline.
• Typically 5 to 10 years of experience in network engineering, network operations, or IT infrastructure, including technical leadership or team management responsibilities.
• Strong expertise in enterprise network architecture, routing and switching, TCP/IP, VLANs, BGP, OSPF, MPLS, LAN/WAN, and wireless networking.
• Hands-on experience configuring and managing enterprise networking equipment and technologies from vendors such as Cisco, Juniper, Fortinet, or equivalent providers.
• Proven experience with network security technologies, including firewalls, VPNs, IDS/IPS, network segmentation, and access control solutions.
• Experience designing and managing high-availability networks, redundant connectivity, failover mechanisms, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Familiarity with SD-WAN, software-defined networking, network virtualization, and data center networking.
• Knowledge of cloud networking, hybrid cloud connectivity, virtual networks, routing, load balancing, and cloud security across AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Experience with network automation and scripting using Python, Ansible, APIs, or similar tools.
• Proficiency in network monitoring, traffic analysis, performance optimization, troubleshooting, and incident management.
• Understanding of ITIL processes, change management, configuration management, and service-level agreements.
• Experience managing network infrastructure projects, vendor relationships, operational budgets, and technology implementations.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, decision-making, and technical documentation skills.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, team leadership, and cross-functional collaboration abilities.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, resolve critical production incidents, and deliver secure, reliable, and scalable network services.