Manager, Network Development

Oracle•Abilene, TX

3d•$114,600 - $234,600

About The Position

The Manager, Network Development guides a team designing, developing, testing, and maintaining network systems for large-scale enterprise, data center, or cloud-based environments. The role provides technical direction for production network strategy and automation, testing, monitoring, reliability, and capacity planning. It collaborates with vendors and internal teams, including engineering and quality assurance, to resolve technical issues and ensure compliance with networking, governance, and security standards. The manager owns execution plans for team projects and initiatives, delegates and prioritizes work, monitors timelines and budgets where applicable, and adapts plans as business needs change. The role supports incident response and root cause analysis, mentors team members, promotes continuous improvement and learning, and contributes to roadmap and software architecture execution. It also partners with stakeholders and capacity planning teams to develop scalable solutions and prepare infrastructure for performance, security, and growth needs.

Responsibilities

Guide the design, development, and validation of network systems and team-level test strategies and protocols.
Provide technical guidance for break-fix validation, post-event root cause analysis, corrective and preventive actions, and resolution of escalated issues.
Attend change management and technical change advisory or review board meetings.
Collaborate with engineering, quality assurance, vendors, and other stakeholders to explain compliance practices and procedures before deployment.
Review and communicate governance and security requirements.
Use team feedback to improve network health dashboards, telemetry, alerts, metrics, trends, and thresholds aligned with service level objectives.
Coordinate with monitoring teams to improve detection and diagnosis of network anomalies.
Provide technical leadership during support rotations, guide investigations and incident response, and help identify tools for frontline support.
Ensure the team meets test and deployment milestones for large projects.
Mentor team members, foster technical excellence, and coach them during customer-facing incident response and root cause analysis.
Contribute to roadmaps and software architecture and help the team execute according to documentation.
Work with vendors and internal teams to troubleshoot and resolve product or equipment issues and ensure adherence to networking standards.
Guide remediation strategies for network efficiency issues using performance and service metrics such as latency, throughput, and packet loss.
Collaborate with vendors and business partners on scalable solutions and with capacity planning teams to forecast initiatives and future infrastructure needs.
Anticipate network technology limitations, ensure the network is architected accordingly, and communicate limitations to the team.
Create and own execution plans for team projects, monitor timelines and budgets where applicable, delegate and prioritize work, identify resource needs, and adjust plans as priorities change.
Build collaborative partnerships across teams and guide team members in building effective relationships with business leaders, stakeholders, and customers.
Lead the team in identifying and addressing moderately complex operational and technical issues, including analyzing information from multiple sources to troubleshoot errors.
Seek learning opportunities for self and team, identify skill gaps, and support knowledge-sharing and team development.
Recommend process, protocol, and workflow improvements and solicit and review ideas from team members.
Coach and direct team members in alignment with performance processes, facilitate goal setting, identify development opportunities, lead candidate interviews, assess promotion eligibility, and manage talent resources.