Senior Manager - Network and Information Security
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About The Role:
This strategic leadership role is responsible for architecting, building, and governing enterprise network and security infrastructure across a high-tech manufacturing environment. The Senior Manager blends deep technical expertise in network architecture, cloud networking (AWS), and cybersecurity with hands-on people management to deliver secure, resilient, and scalable connectivity across all production and corporate sites. This role serves as the principal authority on network and security, working cross-functionally with IT, engineering, and business stakeholders to align network capabilities with manufacturing operational goals.
What You'll Do:
- Leadership, Team and Vendor Management
- Lead, mentor, and develop a small team of network and security engineers, providing technical guidance and career development.
- Set team priorities, manage workloads, and ensure 24/7 operational coverage through on-call rotations and escalation protocols.
- Manage external vendors, holding all parties accountable to defined SLAs, quality standards, and outcomes.
- Network Architecture and Design
- Own end-to-end enterprise network architecture, including LAN/WAN, SD-WAN, wireless, and OT/IT segmentation.
- Architect scalable, high-availability solutions supporting manufacturing operations, IoT devices, and enterprise applications.
- Lead routing and switching design (BGP, OSPF, VLAN segmentation, QoS) and manage equipment lifecycle.
- Maintain network architecture diagrams, standards documentation, and lifecycle roadmaps; evaluate emerging technologies and vendors to address capability gaps.
- Cloud Networking
- Design, implement, and manage networking constructs including VPCs, Transit Gateways, Direct Connect, VPN, Security Groups, and NACLs.
- Architect hybrid connectivity between on-premises sites and cloud services, ensuring low-latency, secure, and resilient integration.
- Partner with engineering and DevOps teams to define network guardrails, tagging standards, and organization-level policies.
- Optimize cloud networking costs and performance through right-sizing and architectural reviews.
- Network Security
- Lead design and enforcement of network security policies, including firewall rule management, ZTNA, NAC, and micro-segmentation.
- Manage firewalls, IDS/IPS, proxies, and related security appliances through their full lifecycle.
- Oversee vulnerability assessments and penetration test scoping; ensure timely remediation and report risk to stakeholders.
- Support compliance activities (NIST, SOC 2, ISO 27001, etc.) through controls documentation, audit evidence, and remediation execution.
- Operations & Incident Management
- Lead day-to-day network operations, ensuring high availability and performance across enterprise and manufacturing segments.
- Serve as the senior escalation point for network and security incidents, both internal and vendor-related.
- Oversee network monitoring platforms (e.g. Grafana, Datadog, LogicMonitor, etc.); define alerting thresholds, dashboards, and response runbooks.
- Drive root cause analysis (RCA) investigations and publish findings and corrective action plans for senior leadership.
- Manage ticketing workflows, ensuring SLA adherence for network-related work orders.
- Stakeholder Collaboration & Governance
- Act as the primary network engineering liaison to IT leadership, OT engineering, manufacturing operations, and engineering teams.
- Participate in capacity planning, capital budgeting, and vendor contract negotiations.
- Present network strategy, risk posture, and project updates
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