Director of Network Operations

State of Oklahoma • Oklahoma City, OK

1d • $140,000 • Onsite

About The Position

As an Director of Network Engineering and Operations with OMES you will enjoy: Generous leave including 15 days of vacation, 15 days of sick leave and 11 paid holidays annually. A comprehensive Benefit Package with a generous benefit allowance to offset the cost of insurance premiums for employees and their eligible dependents.

This is a full-time, in office, 40-hour per week position. Some extended hours including evening and weekends may be required
Support the Information Services Division
Salary up to: $140,000 based on education and experience
Position is on-site in Oklahoma City, OK

Requirements

• 10+ years in network engineering/operations, including 5+ years in a director-level or equivalent leadership role.
• Deep hands-on background in enterprise routing/switching, WAN/SD-WAN, wireless, data center networking, and network security fundamentals (firewalls, segmentation).
• Demonstrated track record of reducing incident volume/severity and improving uptime in a large, distributed environment.
• Experience leading infrastructure consolidation, standardization, or modernization initiatives at enterprise scale.
• Strong financial acumen — budget ownership, vendor negotiation, and cost-model development.
• Proven people leadership: hiring, developing, and aligning cross-functional technical teams.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in a regulated industry (insurance, financial services, healthcare, or government) with associated compliance and audit exposure.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., JNCP/CCNP/CCIE, PMP, ITIL) are a plus but not required in lieu of demonstrated experience.
• Experience operating in a hybrid/multi-cloud interconnect environment.
• Experience with formal SLA/OLA frameworks and chargeback or cost-recovery models.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end network availability, capacity, and performance across data center, campus, wireless, and WAN/SD-WAN environments.
• Establish and enforce change management, maintenance windows, and configuration standards to reduce self-inflicted outages.
• Lead root-cause analysis and post-incident reviews for major incidents; ensure corrective actions are tracked to closure.
• Define and test resiliency requirements — redundancy, failover, disaster recovery, and business continuity — against actual business impact tolerances.
• Build proactive monitoring, alerting, and capacity-planning practices that catch degradation before it becomes an outage.
• Inventory and rationalize the network estate — hardware platforms, circuit types, vendors, and one-off site configurations — to identify consolidation opportunities.
• Set enterprise standards and reference architectures so new sites and services are deployed consistently rather than as bespoke builds.
• Sponsor a rolling technical-debt and end-of-life remediation plan for aging or unsupported network infrastructure.
• Partner with security and infrastructure teams to simplify network segmentation and access models without weakening controls.
• Lead, coach, and develop network engineering and operations staff, including managers/supervisors and on-call rotations.
• Define clear roles, ownership boundaries, and escalation paths between network, security, service desk, and platform teams to eliminate finger-pointing during incidents.
• Drive a shared operating rhythm — standups, change reviews, incident reviews, roadmap check-ins — that keeps engineering, operations, and vendor teams working from the same plan.
• Represent network strategy and performance to IT leadership, business stakeholders, and (where applicable) regulators or auditors.
• Own the network budget, including circuit, hardware, licensing, and maintenance/support spend; identify and execute cost-reduction initiatives.
• Lead vendor and carrier negotiations, contract renewals, and build-vs-buy/insource-vs-outsource decisions.
• Evaluate consolidation of circuits, platforms, and support contracts to reduce run-cost while maintaining or improving resiliency.
• Build and maintain a chargeback/showback model (where applicable) so network costs are transparent and attributable.

Benefits

• Generous leave including 15 days of vacation, 15 days of sick leave and 11 paid holidays annually.
• A comprehensive Benefit Package with a generous benefit allowance to offset the cost of insurance premiums for employees and their eligible dependents.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed