Group Lead - Core IT Networking

About This Role

Who We Are: 

• CAE Vision: Our vision is to be the worldwide partner of choice in defense and security, and civil aviation by revolutionizing our customers’ training and critical operations with digitally immersive solutions to elevate safety, efficiency and readiness. 

• CAE Defense & Security Mission: CAE's Defense and Security business unit focuses on helping prepare military customers to develop and maintain the highest levels of mission readiness. 

• CAE Values: Empowerment, Innovation, Excellence, Integrity and OneCAE make us who we are and we strive to make a difference in the world while helping each other succeed. 

What We Have to Offer: 

• Comprehensive and competitive benefits package and flexibility that promotes work-life balance 

• A work environment where all employees are valued, respected and safe 

• Freedom to succeed by enabling team members to deliver, take initiatives and make decisions 

• Recognition, professional development, advancement and having fun! 

Summary  

Provide leadership for Network Systems Engineering associated team members.  Must have proven and extensive enterprise systems deployment and support experience across a multi-site enterprise.  Applicants must have excellent communication and interpersonal skills.  

Essential Duties and Responsibilities  

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  

• Leads enterprise network team in design, deployment and support expectations for enterprise networking platform on-premise and cloud hosted. 

• Responsible for assuring all enterprise networks platforms are efficiently architected/designed, deployed, and optimized to ensure future growth and comply with industry and regulatory requirements. 

• Ensures status reports/logging is digested to accurately capture, evaluate, and optimize enterprise network. 

• Work closely with 3rd parties, affiliates, and cross functional teams to ensure enterprise and engineering platforms operate efficiently and securely across the enterprise network, private networks, and public internet services. 

• Solves problems and makes decisions daily relative to network issues.  Ensures that effective representation takes place for the coordination of work processes and projects with other departments and divisions. 

• Participate in all Mergers & Acquisition (M&A) activities including due diligence, data gathering, and leading integration efforts.  

• Designs a roadmap for the creation/expansion of existing enterprise network to scale-out through M&A activities while maintaining command, control, compliance of the global enterprise network across all CAE USA sites. 

• Reviews and enhances IT policy and procedures to ensure all IT platforms are compliant with corporate policies and guidelines with regards to enterprise networking.