Senior Vice President, Network Engineering
About the role
As a part of Brookfield’s $416B credit platform, Oaktree is a premier credit manager emphasizing an opportunistic, value-oriented, and risk-controlled approach to investing across credit, equity, and real estate. Oaktree is committed to cultivating an environment that is collaborative, curious, inclusive and honors diversity of thought. Providing training and career development opportunities and emphasizing strong support for our local communities through philanthropic initiatives are essential to our culture. Oaktree is wholly owned by Brookfield, a leading global investment firm with more than $1 trillion in assets under management. Brookfield owns and operates high-quality businesses and real assets that provide essential services and form the backbone of the global economy. It invests on behalf of institutions and individuals around the world across infrastructure, renewable power and transition, private equity, real estate, and credit.
Responsibilities
The Technology department at Oaktree Capital Management delivers secure, scalable, and innovative solutions that power the firm’s global investment and business operations. Through strong partnerships across the company, we drive digital transformation, advance operational efficiency, and provide a trusted data foundation to create measurable impact for Oaktree’s teams, clients, and partners. Based in Los Angeles or Chicago, this position will lead the Network Engineering function within the Infrastructure and Operations team. The SVP, Network Engineering will serve as the firm’s senior technical authority on network architecture and strategy, owning the design, resilience, and long-term roadmap of Oaktree’s global network across all offices and cloud environments, while managing and mentoring a team of network engineers and overseeing MSP operations. This is a player-coach role: the successful candidate will set network architecture strategy and lead the team, while remaining hands-on with the organization's most complex technical challenges.
- Own the strategy, architecture, and multi-year technology roadmap for the firm’s internal and external networks, setting global standards for Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, and Arista platforms.
- Serve as the final escalation point for complex, business-critical network incidents, directing root-cause analysis and long-term remediation across