Director of Networking
About the role
The Director of Networking is responsible for Voyager's corporate network strategy, architecture, operations, and lifecycle management across corporate offices, engineering environments, manufacturing sites, secure collaboration platforms, and mission-support locations. Reporting to the Chief Information Officer (CIO), this leader will own the reliability, security, scalability, and performance of Voyager's corporate network foundation, including LAN/WAN, wireless, internet edge, SD-WAN, VPN, firewalls, network segmentation, monitoring, and carrier/provider relationships.
Responsibilities
Define and execute the enterprise corporate networking roadmap across Voyager facilities, programs, and shared services.
Develop network standards, reference architectures, lifecycle plans, and operating procedures for LAN, WAN, wireless, remote access, network edge, and segmentation.
Design resilient network architectures that support engineering, manufacturing, secure collaboration, and high-availability business operations.
Drive standardization across sites while allowing for mission-specific network requirements and regulated-environment constraints.
Own operational performance for corporate network services, including uptime, capacity, incident response, change control, and root-cause analysis.
Establish monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and service metrics that make network health visible to IT and business leadership.
Lead major network upgrades, site launches, office expansions, and migrations from legacy or ad-hoc designs to scalable enterprise patterns.
Partner with IT support and infrastructure teams to resolve user-impacting connectivity issues quickly and sustainably.
Partner with cybersecurity to align network architecture with zero-trust principles, access controls, CMMC, ITAR/EAR, CUI handling, and enterprise risk requirements.
Support audit readiness by maintaining network diagrams, standards, evidence, change records, and control documentation.
Build network continuity, disaster recovery, and incident response playbooks for mission-critical sites and business services.
Build and lead a high-performing network function, including internal staff, managed services, telecom carriers, and technology partners.
Manage vendor performance, contracts, budgets, licensing, refresh cycles, and technology selection with strong commercial discipline.
Communicate network risks, tradeoffs, investment needs, and progress clearly to executive and cross-functional stakeholders.
Coach teams toward automation, documentation discipline, repeatable deployment patterns, and continuous operational improvement.
Requirements
Must hold an active TS/SCI upon hire.
High school diploma or equivalent.
10+ years of progressive networking, infrastructure, or enterprise IT experience, including 5+ years leading network teams, programs, or major network transformation efforts.
Deep hands-on knowledge of enterprise LAN/WAN, wireless, firewalls, VPN, SD-WAN, internet edge, routing, switching, DNS/DHCP, network monitoring, and network segmentation.
Experience supporting multi-site enterprise environments with high availability, secure access, and regulated data requirements.
Demonstrated ability to lead network modernization, standardization, and operational maturity across distributed facilities.
Experience partnering with cybersecurity teams on access controls, segmentation, logging, vulnerability remediation, and incident response.
Strong executive communication, vendor management, budget planning, and cross-functional stakeholder management skills.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in aerospace, defense, space systems, advanced manufacturing, or another highly regulated industry.
Experience with Microsoft cloud networking, Azure Government, GCC High, secure collaboration environments, and hybrid connectivity.
Experience with Cisco, Palo Alto, Fortinet, Aruba, Juniper, Meraki, Zscaler, or similar enterprise networking and security platforms.
Relevant certifications such as CCNP, CCIE, JNCIP, PCNSE, CISSP, CISM, Security+, Network+, ITIL, or similar.
Experience building automation for network provisioning, monitoring, documentation, or compliance evidence.