Senior Director Network Engineering & Security

Hotwire Communications•Fort Lauderdale, FL

About The Position

Duties / Responsibilities: Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing network engineer and security professionals' team. Foster a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and excellence within the team. Develop and manage departmental budgets, ensuring optimal allocation of resources. Oversee Hotwire's network infrastructure's design, implementation, and maintenance. Ensure network scalability, reliability, and performance to support current and future service offerings. Collaborate with other departments to integrate network solutions that align with business objectives. Develop and implement comprehensive network security policies, procedures, and protocols. Monitor and respond to security incidents, vulnerabilities, and threats in a timely manner. Conduct regular security assessments and audits to ensure industry standards and regulations compliance. Drive the strategic planning process for network engineering and security teams, aligning with company goals and industry trends. Develop and maintain strategic partnerships with key vendors and stakeholders. Lead and manage large-scale network projects from inception to completion, ensuring timely delivery and within budget. Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to define project requirements, objectives, and deliverables. Utilize project management tools and methodologies to track progress and mitigate risks. Ensure compliance with all relevant regulations, standards, and best practices (e.g., PCI-DSS, GDPR). Develop and implement risk management strategies to protect network assets and data integrity. Stay abreast of legal, regulatory, and technological changes affecting network security. Scale deployment into production and support ongoing network management in partnership with Operations team. Lead the engineering implementation and execution of multiple Product launches. Collaborate and manage relationships with Product business leaders and Senior Executive team. Manage the implementation for multiple engineering transformation and process improvement initiatives. Partner with Product Management, PMO, and Operations teams to ensure successful outcomes. Collaborate with the Product, Engineering, and Operations teams to ensure ongoing strategy and work delivery to key stakeholders meets their expectations and appropriate handoff for post-operational support for product launches. Lead, assess, and approve the introduction of new products, features, and patches to the production environment. Vendor management regarding roadmap, feature requests, RFI, RFP, and RFQ, acceptance testing and certification, deployment, spares, troubleshooting, support, and maintenance. Oversee the process of introducing proactive monitoring and automation capabilities. Network: Design, Architecture, Deployment and Maintenance for Core/Backbone, peering (transit, private, public, cloud connectivity Server Farms/back-ends/hosting/CDN Backup and out-of-band networks Business Partners direct peers Network QoS Optical Transport: Design, Architecture, Deployment, and Maintenance Optical network for non-IP products Metro rings IP Address Management IPv4 and IPv6 management for the entire enterprise Customer DHCP Infrastructure Performance & Capacity Management Traffic analysis Bandwidth management Network element management Circuit management (leased and owned) Peering business management Network Tools Syslog SNMP based tools Config management Performance management Security Control: Design, Architecture, Deployment and Maintenance for Service Provider Firewalls: hardware, virtualized, and cloud VPNs: site-to-site and RAS (remote access) Load Balancers: hardware, virtualized and cloud IPS/IDS Web Application Firewalls DDoS threat mitigation services Vulnerability management Security Tools: Design, Architecture, Deployment and Maintenance AAA for infrastructure (Authentication, Authorization, Accounting) Public Key Infrastructure and Certificate Management Privileged Account Management for Infrastructure Endpoint Protection for Infrastructure Traffic Analyzers Clocks (NTP Infrastructure) Internal pen testing infrastructure System Integrity Check Tools Other duties as assigned by Supervisor. Minimum Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in engineering or relevant field.
10+ years in a technical leadership position within a Network and Security Engineering team, preferably at a service provider.
Strong expertise in network design, implementation, and management.
Extensive experience with network security frameworks, protocols, and best practices.
Proven ability to lead and develop high-performing teams.
Excellent strategic planning, project management, and decision-making skills.
Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.
Must be comfortable with public speaking and presenting to large groups.
Results-oriented—ability to deliver results and strive to achieve excellence in all tasks and goals consistently.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Exceptional organizational and analytical skills demonstrated skill in requirements gathering, resource organization, and schedule development.

Nice To Haves

Relevant certifications such as CCIE, CISSP, CISM, or equivalent is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing network engineer and security professionals' team.
Foster a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and excellence within the team.
Develop and manage departmental budgets, ensuring optimal allocation of resources.
Oversee Hotwire's network infrastructure's design, implementation, and maintenance.
Ensure network scalability, reliability, and performance to support current and future service offerings.
Collaborate with other departments to integrate network solutions that align with business objectives.
Develop and implement comprehensive network security policies, procedures, and protocols.
Monitor and respond to security incidents, vulnerabilities, and threats in a timely manner.
Conduct regular security assessments and audits to ensure industry standards and regulations compliance.
Drive the strategic planning process for network engineering and security teams, aligning with company goals and industry trends.
Develop and maintain strategic partnerships with key vendors and stakeholders.
Lead and manage large-scale network projects from inception to completion, ensuring timely delivery and within budget.
Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to define project requirements, objectives, and deliverables.
Utilize project management tools and methodologies to track progress and mitigate risks.
Ensure compliance with all relevant regulations, standards, and best practices (e.g., PCI-DSS, GDPR).
Develop and implement risk management strategies to protect network assets and data integrity.
Stay abreast of legal, regulatory, and technological changes affecting network security.
Scale deployment into production and support ongoing network management in partnership with Operations team.
Lead the engineering implementation and execution of multiple Product launches.
Collaborate and manage relationships with Product business leaders and Senior Executive team.
Manage the implementation for multiple engineering transformation and process improvement initiatives.
Partner with Product Management, PMO, and Operations teams to ensure successful outcomes.
Collaborate with the Product, Engineering, and Operations teams to ensure ongoing strategy and work delivery to key stakeholders meets their expectations and appropriate handoff for post-operational support for product launches.
Lead, assess, and approve the introduction of new products, features, and patches to the production environment.
Vendor management regarding roadmap, feature requests, RFI, RFP, and RFQ, acceptance testing and certification, deployment, spares, troubleshooting, support, and maintenance.
Oversee the process of introducing proactive monitoring and automation capabilities.
Network: Design, Architecture, Deployment and Maintenance for Core/Backbone, peering (transit, private, public, cloud connectivity Server Farms/back-ends/hosting/CDN Backup and out-of-band networks Business Partners direct peers Network QoS Optical Transport: Design, Architecture, Deployment, and Maintenance Optical network for non-IP products Metro rings IP Address Management IPv4 and IPv6 management for the entire enterprise Customer DHCP Infrastructure Performance & Capacity Management Traffic analysis Bandwidth management Network element management Circuit management (leased and owned) Peering business management Network Tools Syslog SNMP based tools Config management Performance management Security Control: Design, Architecture, Deployment and Maintenance for Service Provider Firewalls: hardware, virtualized, and cloud VPNs: site-to-site and RAS (remote access) Load Balancers: hardware, virtualized and cloud IPS/IDS Web Application Firewalls DDoS threat mitigation services Vulnerability management Security Tools: Design, Architecture, Deployment and Maintenance AAA for infrastructure (Authentication, Authorization, Accounting) Public Key Infrastructure and Certificate Management Privileged Account Management for Infrastructure Endpoint Protection for Infrastructure Traffic Analyzers Clocks (NTP Infrastructure) Internal pen testing infrastructure System Integrity Check Tools
Other duties as assigned by Supervisor.

Benefits

Comprehensive Healthcare/Dental/Vision Plans
401K Retirement Plan with Company Match
Paid Vacation, Sick Time, and Additional Holidays (including your Birthday!)
Paid Volunteer Time
Paid Parental Leave
Hotwire Service Discounts - for employees who live on a property serviced by Hotwire. Discounted service offerings are provided for high-speed internet, video service, phone, and security service
Employee Referral Bonuses
Exclusive Entertainment Discounts/Perks

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