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Job ID: JOB_ID_9357

Job Summary

The Network Manager is responsible for leading the design, implementation, operations, and continuous optimization of the organizations enterprise network infrastructure across multiple data centers. This role combines deep technical expertise with people leadership, strategic planning, operational governance, and vendor management to ensure a secure, scalable, highly available, and highperformance network environment.

The Network Manager oversees a team of network engineers, sets architectural direction, serves as the senior escalation point for complex network issues, and partners with crossfunctional stakeholders to align network capabilities with current and future business objectives.

Key Responsibilities

Network Strategy, Design, and Architecture

  • Define, own, and maintain the enterprise network architecture, standards, and longterm roadmap across LAN, WAN, MAN, and data center environments.
  • Provide architectural oversight for complex, multidata center and hybrid network designs.
  • Design scalable, resilient, and secure network architectures to support business growth and digital transformation.
  • Review and approve highlevel designs, technical specifications, and major network changes.
  • Develop and maintain detailed network diagrams, standards, and design documentation.
  • Collaborate with business leaders, application teams, cloud teams, and security teams to translate business needs into technical network requirements.

Network Implementation and Operations

  • Oversee the deployment, configuration, and lifecycle management of enterprise network infrastructure, including:
    • Routers, switches, firewalls, VPN concentrators, and load balancers
  • Ensure consistent configuration standards and operational best practices across all network environments.
  • Establish and enforce operational processes, SLAs, KPIs, and change management procedures.
  • Act as the senior escalation point for critical network incidents, outages, and complex troubleshooting.
  • Lead root cause analysis (RCA), postincident reviews, and implementation of preventive measures.
  • Ensure effective disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity strategies for network infrastructure.

Team Leadership and People Management

  • Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Network Engineers (L2/L3).
  • Set performance expectations, conduct evaluations, and support individual development and certification goals.
  • Foster strong collaboration, documentation discipline, and knowledge sharing within the team.
  • Manage oncall rotations, workload distribution, and operational readiness.

Network Security and Compliance

  • Partner with Information Security teams to design and enforce network security architecture and controls.
  • Oversee implementation of network security mechanisms, including:
    • Firewalls, IDS/IPS, segmentation, ACLs, encryption, and secure access
  • Ensure compliance with regulatory and industry standards such as PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, and internal governance frameworks.
  • Oversee networkrelated security audits, vulnerability assessments, and remediation efforts.
  • Support Zero Trust and leastprivilege access models across enterprise and data center networks.

Network Performance, Optimization, and Capacity Planning

  • Drive continuous improvement of network performance, availability, and reliability.
  • Analyze monitoring and telemetry data to identify bottlenecks and performance risks.
  • Lead capacity planning, traffic analysis, and lifecycle management initiatives.
  • Oversee implementation and governance of Quality of Service (QoS) policies to prioritize critical applications.
  • Improve network resiliency through redundancy, failover, and faulttolerant designs.

Vendor, Budget, and Project Management

  • Manage relationships with network hardware, software, and service providers.
  • Lead vendor evaluations, RFPs, contract negotiations, and technology selection.
  • Own network budgets, forecasting, and costoptimization initiatives.
  • Oversee networkrelated projects such as upgrades, migrations, and data center deployments, ensuring ontime and onbudget delivery.

Documentation, Governance, and Continuous Improvement

  • Ensure comprehensive documentation of network architecture, configurations, procedures, and standards.
  • Establish governance frameworks for network design reviews, risk management, and compliance.
  • Stay current with emerging networking technologies, security threats, and industry best practices.
  • Drive standardization, automation, and modernization initiatives where appropriate.

Technical Skills and Expertise

Core Networking Technologies

  • Advanced knowledge of enterprise networking protocols and architectures, including:
    • TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, MPLS
    • Layer 2 and Layer 3 switching and routing
    • VLANs, trunking, STP, VPC, EVPN
  • Expertise in designing highavailability, redundant, and faulttolerant network architectures.

Data Center and MultiSite Networking

  • Extensive experience supporting multidata center environments and interDC connectivity.
  • Knowledge of spineleaf and data center fabric architectures.
  • Understanding of loadbalancing technologies (L4/L7 concepts) and traffic distribution strategies.
  • Experience designing for disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity use cases.

Network Security Technologies

  • Strong understanding of network security architecture and best practices.
  • Experience with:
    • Firewalls (including NGFW concepts)
    • IDS/IPS
    • Network segmentation and access control
  • Handson or architectural oversight of:
    • VPN technologies (sitetosite, remote access, IPSec, SSL)
    • Encryption, authentication, and secure tunneling
  • Ability to align network security controls with compliance requirements and enterprise security frameworks.

Performance, Monitoring, and Troubleshooting

  • Experience with enterprise network monitoring, logging, and management tools.
  • Strong capability in advanced troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
  • Ability to interpret traffic flows, latency, and throughput trends to drive optimization.
  • Familiarity with ITILaligned incident, problem, and change management practices.

Vendor Platforms

  • Handson and leadership experience with enterprise networking vendors such as:
    • Cisco
    • Juniper
    • Palo Alto
    • Other leading hardware and security vendors

Automation and Modern Networking (Preferred)

  • Exposure to network automation, scripting, or orchestration concepts.
  • Familiarity with hybrid and cloudconnected networking models.
  • Understanding of configuration standardization and infrastructure lifecycle management.

Qualifications

Required

  • Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field, or equivalent professional experience.
  • 12+ years of experience in enterprise network engineering and operations.
  • 35+ years in a network leadership or management role.
  • Proven experience managing largescale, multidata center network environments.
  • Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred

  • Professional certifications such as CCNP, CCIE, JNCIP, JNCIE, or equivalent.
  • Experience leading network modernization or transformation initiatives.
  • Financial and project management experience.

Work Environment

  • Primarily office or hybrid work environment.
  • Occasional travel to data centers or remote sites as required.
  • Participation in executivelevel incident management and afterhours escalation for critical network events.

Compensation & Location

Salary: $150,000 – $200,000 per year

Location: Remote

Recruiter / Company – Contact Information

Recruiter / Employer: Sureminds Solution

Email: bhamlovevanshi50@gmail.com

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