About The Role:

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 to IT leadership and business stakeholders.

What You’ll Need:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Network Engineering, or related field. Equivalent experience considered.
• 10+ years of progressive network engineering experience, with at least 3 years in a people management or technical lead role.
• Demonstrated experience architecting enterprise-grade network solutions in a manufacturing, industrial, or highly regulated environment.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with AWS networking services (VPC, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, Route 53, WAF, Security Groups).
• Proven experience in network security device management including NGFWs (Palo Alto, Fortinet, Cisco), IDS/IPS, NAC, CASB/SASE, and Web Filtering platforms.
• Strong background in routing and switching protocols: BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, MSTP, VLANs, and QoS.
• Experience with wireless network design and management (Cisco Meraki, Aruba, or equivalent) across large, distributed campuses.
• Certification(s) in CCNP Enterprise or CCIE, AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty, CISSP or CISM, Palo Alto PCNSE, AWS Solutions Architect – Professional, ITIL v4 Foundation, etc.

Technical Skills:

• Network platforms Cisco (IOS-XE/XR/NX-OS), Palo Alto, Juniper, Meraki, Fortinet
• Cloud Networking: AWS VPC, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, VPN, WAF, Security Groups, NACLs
• Security Tools: Firewalls, IDS/IPS, SIEM (Rapid7/Splunk/Palo Alto), NAC (Cisco ISE/Aruba ClearPass), Vulnerability Scanners
• Protocols: BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, STP/MSTP, VXLAN, DMVPN, MPLS, 802.1x, QoS
• Wireless:Enterprise Wi-Fi 6/6E, WPA3, WLAN controllers, RF design and site surveys