IT Network Manager

Excelitas is a global technology leader with more than 7,500 employees, focused on delivering market-driven solutions to fulfill the illumination, optical, detection, and imaging needs of OEMs and end-users across the biomedical, semiconductor, industrial, consumer products, scientific, security, defense, and aerospace sectors. We design and build everything from individual optical components to fully integrated photonic systems—delivering the technology that enables our customers’ most mission-critical breakthroughs.

About the role

We are excited to welcome a hands-on, people-centric IT Network Manager to our Pittsburgh headquarters. In this role, you’ll lead a talented team while staying deeply involved in the engineering work that keeps our enterprise networks secure, scalable, and high-performing. This is an ideal opportunity for someone who thrives in both leadership and technical execution—and wants to make a meaningful impact on a growing global organization.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a high-performing network/IT team—providing coaching, guidance, and growth opportunities while driving a culture of collaboration and accountability.
• Stay hands-on with daily operations, including the configuration, deployment, and maintenance of routers, switches, firewalls, wireless access points, and core infrastructure.
• Design and evolve our enterprise network architecture, ensuring our LAN/WAN and cloud environments are secure, resilient, and ready for the business needs of today and tomorrow.
• Own complex troubleshooting and escalations, quickly diagnosing and resolving issues to protect uptime and performance.
• Drive major network and IT projects, managing scope, budgets, timelines, and communication across the organization.
• Strengthen our security posture by developing and enforcing policies around firewalls, VPNs, IDS/IPS, and access control.
• Build strong relationships with vendors and internal partners, helping shape requirements, negotiate SLAs, and ensure successful delivery of solutions.
• Maintain clear, accessible documentation for architectures, configurations, processes, and disaster recovery plans—supporting reliability, governance, and continuity.

Requirements

• Deep, hands-on experience with enterprise LAN/WAN environments, routing, switching, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, and wireless systems.
• Proficiency with enterprise-grade routers, switches, firewalls, WLAN controllers, and cloud networking concepts.
• Solid understanding of network security practices—including VPNs, IDS/IPS, threat detection, and secure architecture principles.
• Experience deploying and managing enterprise wireless networks.
• Familiarity with cloud networking in AWS (VPC, Direct Connect) or Azure (VNet, ExpressRoute).
• Knowledge of network monitoring, automation, and performance tools.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, especially in high-pressure or time-sensitive environments.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to translate technical topics for non-technical audiences.
• Experience with ITIL practices and disciplined approaches to change, incident, and problem management.
• Leadership strengths—mentorship, delegation, performance management, and team motivation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Network Engineering, or a related field OR equivalent practical experience with strong demonstration of capability.
• CCNA, CCNP, Network+, or similar industry certifications (highly preferred).
• 7+ years of progressive experience in networking roles (highly preferred).
• 3+ years directly managing or leading an engineering team (highly preferred).
• Proven success delivering large-scale infrastructure projects (highly preferred).

This is an on-site position located at our Pittsburgh headquarters. No relocation or visa sponsorship is offered. Must be a US Person and comply with the Controlled Goods Program (CGP) and International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR).