Senior Manager, Network Engineering
About The Position
Lead a geographically distributed network engineering team responsible for designing, operating, and modernizing a large-scale enterprise network across AWS cloud environments, on-premises data centers, and corporate offices. The role combines technical leadership and people management, with a focus on network reliability, resiliency, scalability, automation, security, and operational excellence, while establishing a modern, standardized network architecture. The Senior Manager will assess the current environment and lead transformation and modernization initiatives while maintaining stable day-to-day operations. The role partners with cloud engineering, security, infrastructure, application teams, business stakeholders, and vendors to align network capabilities with organizational goals. This is a contract-to-hire position based in Atlanta, Georgia, with a hybrid workplace. The stated pay range is $75.00–$90.00 per hour.
Requirements
- 10+ years of progressive experience in Network Engineering, with prior leadership or management experience.
- Strong expertise in enterprise network architecture, routing, switching, and data center networking.
- Deep knowledge of BGP, WAN technologies, network resiliency, and high-availability design.
- Hands-on experience supporting and architecting AWS networking environments, including multi-region connectivity and cloud networking services.
- Strong experience with Palo Alto firewalls and network security technologies.
- Proven experience leading network transformation and modernization initiatives within enterprise environments.
- Experience supporting hybrid environments spanning cloud, data center, and office networks.
- Demonstrated ability to lead teams while maintaining hands-on technical involvement.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with AWS Cloud WAN.
- Experience with ExpressRoute.
- Experience with Megaport.
- Experience with Terraform.
- Experience with Ansible or similar automation platforms.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) frameworks.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines for network automation.
- Experience with New Relic or other network monitoring and observability platforms.
- Experience implementing network automation strategies.
- Experience implementing configuration management solutions.
- Experience implementing standardized network operating models.
- Experience implementing enterprise architecture governance.
Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a geographically distributed team of network engineers, providing technical direction, career development, and operational leadership.
- Assess the current network environment and develop a prioritized roadmap for modernization, standardization, and lifecycle management.
- Improve network performance, resiliency, capacity planning, security, and observability across cloud and on-premises environments.
- Support infrastructure modernization, including cloud migrations and data center transformation initiatives.
- Establish engineering best practices for network automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), version control, peer review, and change management.
- Participate in architecture reviews, complex troubleshooting, and critical incident response.
- Partner with cloud engineering, security, infrastructure, application teams, and business stakeholders to align network capabilities with organizational goals.
- Lead disaster recovery planning, operational readiness initiatives, carrier and vendor management, and executive-level reporting.
- Improve configuration management processes and operational efficiency through automation and repeatable deployment methodologies.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage, if eligible.
- Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital coverage, if eligible.
- 401(k) retirement plan with pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available, if eligible.
- Voluntary Life and AD&D insurance for the employee and dependents, if eligible.
- Short- and long-term disability coverage, if eligible.
- Health Spending Account (HSA), if eligible.
- Transportation benefits, if eligible.
- Employee Assistance Program, if eligible.
- Time off or leave, including PTO, vacation, or sick leave, if eligible.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
