Senior Manager, Datacenter Network

Core Responsibilities

• Hires, evaluates, and supervises crew.
• Provides guidance and training as necessary to develop crew.
• Sets performance standards, reviews performance, and makes informed compensation decisions in accordance with all applicable Human Resources policies and procedures.
• Oversees the network team, which provides network services, including designing, installing, configuring, and integrating new network technologies.
• Ensures network installations meet standards and align with the divisional strategy.
• Manages the resolution of the most complex issues elevated from Support Center and Technical Services groups.
• Ensures problem identification, escalation, and resolution occurs in an expedient manner on all platforms.
• Oversees the implementation and maintenance of policies and procedures, system monitoring and automation, and troubleshooting activities.
• Identifies opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Ensures the maintenance of the telecom network documentation repository.
• Participates in the development of short and long term department goals.
• Implements operational plans to achieve department objectives.
• Ensures service level commitments are clearly understood to meet business needs.
• Manages the testing, evaluation, and selection of vendor products and manages relationships with vendors.
• Ensures compliance with Information Technology and Information Security policies and procedures within the team, and ensures deliverables meet Information Security Requirements.
• Leads the management and strategy of data center network fabrics, including leaf-spine architectures and software-defined networking (SDN) solutions.
• Ensures data center network architectures support high availability, fault isolation, east-west traffic optimization, and automation.
• Promotes consistent, end-to-end infrastructure design across compute and network domains.
• Evaluates and manages data center networking technologies and vendors based on scalability, operational complexity, TCO, and lifecycle alignment.
• Collaborates with Network management peers to ensure consistent end-to-end availability and performance of Vanguard’s network services.
• Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Minimum of ten years related work experience.
• Network experience preferred.
• Undergraduate degree in a related field or the equivalent combination of training and experience.
• Graduate degree preferred.
• Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP), Cisco Certified Internetwork Engineer (CCIE), or Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP) preferred.
• Working knowledge of data center networking concepts, including BGP, EVPN, VXLAN, and leaf-spine topologies.
• Experience managing senior technical engineers and enterprise networking vendors.
• Understanding of integrating a comprehensive network stack and hybrid cloud connectivity.

About the Role

Oversees the datacenter network team, which provides network services, and ensures long-term strategies meet current and future network requirements. Manages the evaluation and selection of network technologies.