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What You'll Do:

OCC is looking for a Network Engineering Manager to join the team.  This dynamic role combines operational and strategic responsibilities, blending technical and managerial duties, including HR direct report, vendor and customer interactions.  Key responsibilities include overseeing network service and delivery across various platforms, such as Cisco ACI, Checkpoint, F5 and hybrid LAN/Cloud (AWS) environments.  The goal is to ensure the team consistently deliver a high-quality, stable network experience for customers.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.

• Oversee management of team members from HR, mentoring and career development.

• Design, implement, oversee and support services for customers and partners.

• Ensure compliance with Network, IT, Security and Governance standards (NIST-CSF, COBIT)

• Enhance network performance and availability.

• Document, research, publish, maintain company policies and procedures.

• Collaborate with project teams to improve network deployments and operations.

• Work with management and partners to refine processes and reduce inefficiencies.

• Encourage innovations, out-of-the-box problem-solving

• Collaborate with customers, partners, vendors and carriers to identify and address complex challenges.

• Support enterprise on-call rotations and change management schedule.

• Manage, mentor and assist team members

Supervisory Responsibilities:

Serve as part of the network management team, overseeing direct reports and coordinating with fellow managers, working together as one team.

Qualifications:

The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary functions.

Must have

• 2+ years’ experience successfully managing / leading technical teams.

• Understanding of network management, security, monitoring

• Excellent written and verbal communications skills.

• Flexible to work on/off shift to meet company, customer and internal requirements

• Detailed documentation skill set, including planning, material preparation and public speaking

• Clear, concise and precise written and verbal communication skills to effectively communicate with people of various backgrounds

• Strong interpersonal, leadership, project management and mentoring skills

• Strong ability to use solution-oriented approach towards problem resolution

• Ability to work independently and be a team player

• Demonstrated capability and desire to help manage people, process, systems

Technical Skills:

Must have:

• Advanced knowledge of routing protocols, switching, firewalls (BGP, MPLS, ISIS)

• 4+ years’ experience hands on support and troubleshooting of networks

• 2+ years’ experience with design and implementation of moderate/complex networks

• Experience delivering Infrastructure as code, using and integrating DEVOPS tooling (Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, Python or Github).

• Experience building cloud infrastructure in environments such as AWS (preferred), Azure, Google, or similar

• Experience using Agile Methodology

Preferred

• Experience with SDN deployments or Cisco ACI

• Experience with Checkpoint firewalls (on-prep and virtual)

• Advanced experience with architecting, designing, deploying, and operating network elements such as DNS/IPAM; Firewalls; Network Access Control Solutions (NAC); load balancing; DDoS mitigation, tapping/sniffing infrastructures; and NTP

• Excellent physical communication troubleshooting skills using cabling and signaling analyzer, packet capture and analysis

Education and/or Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science / Engineering or related field.

Certificates or Licenses:

Preferred

• Relevant industry certifications such as Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud

• Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP or CCDP) equivalent field experience

• AWS certifications (DevOps Engineer, Solutions Architect, Advanced Networking, or Security or equivalent field experience)

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