Director, Network & Unified Communications

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Job Title: Director, Network & Unified Communications  

Job Code: 36452

Job Location: (On Site) Melbourne, FL

Job Schedule:  9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

L3Harris Technologies is seeking a Director, Network & Unified Communications to lead the strategy, delivery, and operational excellence of the company’s global connectivity and collaboration ecosystem. This leader will ensure seamless, end-to-end IT connectivity across a complex landscape of providers and technologies, including wide area and local area networks, wireless infrastructure, telecommunications, and enterprise unified collaboration platforms.

Essential Functions:

• Develop and execute the enterprise Network & Unified Communications strategy aligned to the Connectivity pillar and the broader Technology Reinvention strategy.
• Lead modernization initiatives including SD-WAN, NAC, Zero Trust-aligned network segmentation, wireless redesign, VoIP/UC modernization, and optimization of network edge environments.
• Establish a roadmap for reliability, capacity, lifecycle modernization, and secure workload placement across data centers, cloud, and edge sites.
• Oversee the design, deployment, and operations of all global network and telecom services, ensuring high availability, resiliency, and compliance.
• Drive proactive monitoring, observability, automation, and engineering standards to reduce MTTR, eliminate technical debt, and improve service stability.
• Lead end-to-end service management (incident, problem, change, capacity) in partnership with service delivery, Service Desk, Deskside, and Managed Service Providers.
• Own the enterprise UC strategy, covering voice, VoIP, Video/Telepresence, conferencing tools, contact center capabilities, SIP trunking, and future UCaaS capabilities.
• Modernize legacy telecom environments and transition to more secure, scalable, cloud-aligned platforms where appropriate.
• Lead a global team of network and telecom engineers, architects, and operations specialists; foster a culture of ownership, engineering rigor, and continuous improvement.
• Manage strategic partners, OEMs, and MSPs to ensure SLA performance, operational transparency, and value realization.
• Drive workforce planning, talent development, and capability building to support a modern, software-defined, automated network environment.
• Partner with Cybersecurity to ensure compliance with Zero Trust principles, STIGs, government/regulatory requirements, and industry best practices.
• Drive network segmentation, identity-based access, and integrated threat detection in collaboration with security engineering.
• Ensure proper documentation, configuration management, architectural governance, and audit readiness.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 15 years of prior related experience. Graduate Degree with a minimum of 13 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 19 years of prior related experience.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Deep expertise in enterprise networking (LAN/WAN, SD-WAN, VPN, routing/switching, Wi-Fi, DNS/DHCP/IPAM).
• Strong experience with unified communications, VoIP, SIP, telephony, video conferencing, and collaboration technologies.
• Proven track record driving large-scale network modernization, cloud connectivity, and secure architecture transformations.
• Experience operating within highly regulated environments (DoD, aerospace/defense, go