Manager, Network Engineering

About the Role

This leadership opportunity within Logix’s Network Engineering department oversees organization-wide network systems and information while managing major engineering projects, system updates, upgrades, migrations, and outages. The role focuses on IP/MPLS and optical networking technologies, including BGP, MPLS, IS-IS, OSPF, ROADM, DWDM, carrier Ethernet, and Juniper, Cisco, Nokia, and Ciena platforms. It combines technical leadership, team development, strategic planning, project management, and operational oversight, partnering with other leaders across Logix to support collaboration and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the creation and management of all projects within Network Engineering.
• Manages network capacity reports on a weekly basis.
• Manages the evaluation and testing of new technologies and provides recommendations to upper management.
• Coordinates with engineering staff for daily work assignments, reports, and analytics related to the Network Engineering workload.
• Provides departmental reports to upper management as needed.
• Develops budgets and cost-benefit analyses for network-based projects.
• Assists in current and future optical network designs.
• Organizes and communicates departmental objectives effectively.
• Provides oversight and input on process workflows for Network Engineering ticket activities and implementation of new technologies.
• Attends and/or sets up meetings within the group and with other departments as needed.
• Manages all lab testing projects and the production of supporting documentation.
• Ensures proper creation, review, and implementation of change management procedures.
• Performs other duties as requested by the Director of Engineering or as business needs dictate.
• Serves as the first-line escalation for the Network Engineering on-call person.
• Responsible for departmental and individual performance reviews.
• Handles recruiting, hiring, and evaluating employees, including motivation, coaching, and development.
• Plans and allocates resources and follows budgets.
• Makes recommendations aligned with strategy.
• Partners with other leaders in Logix and encourages team collaboration.
• Predicts risks and escalates before they occur.

Requirements

• Advanced knowledge of ROADM and DWDM-based fiber optic networks.
• Advanced knowledge of MPLS, including LDP, RSVP-TE or segment routing concepts, Layer 2/Layer 3 VPNs, traffic engineering, and carrier Ethernet services.
• Deep hands-on experience with BGP, including route policy, communities, route reflectors, peering, transit, customer routing, and troubleshooting.
• Strong operational and design experience with IS-IS and OSPF in large-scale routed networks.
• Demonstrated experience working with Juniper, Cisco, Nokia, and Ciena platforms in production carrier environments.
• Strong understanding of carrier network design principles, including redundancy, resiliency, convergence, QoS, scalability, and operational supportability.
• Ability to analyze packet captures, routing tables, forwarding behavior, telemetry, logs, and performance data to isolate and resolve complex issues.
• Experience developing detailed network documentation, method-of-procedure documents, test plans, and implementation plans.
• Operating knowledge of inventory management and order processing applications.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications such as Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio.
• Good interpersonal, creative, and organizational skills.
• Ability to collect data, establish facts, define problems, and evaluate their seriousness.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Telecommunications, or equivalent practical experience. Recommended to have a college degree or 15+ years’ experience in a major area.

Desired Skills

• Familiarity with optical transport systems, including ROADM, DWDM, coherent optics, wavelength services, and optical layer troubleshooting.
• Experience with carrier automation, telemetry, or configuration management tools such as Python, Ansible, NETCONF, YANG, gNMI, or vendor-specific APIs.
• Relevant industry certifications such as JNCIP/JNCIE, CCNP/CCIE Service Provider, Nokia NRS, or Ciena certifications.
• Experience supporting network modernization, IP/optical convergence, segment routing, EVPN, DCI, or large-scale backbone expansion initiatives.

Benefits

• Paid holidays
• Paid vacations
• 401K
• Medical, vision, and dental insurance

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the US on a full-time basis now and in the future.