Senior Manager, Datacenter Network

Core Responsibilities

• Hires, evaluates, and supervises crew. Provides guidance and training as necessary to develop crew. Sets performance standards, reviews performance, and makes informed compensation decisions in accordance with all applicable Human Resources policies and procedures.
• Oversees the network team, which provides network services, including designing, installing, configuring, and integrating new network technologies. Ensures network installations meet standards and align with the divisional strategy.
• Manages the resolution of the most complex issues elevated from Support Center and Technical Services groups. Ensures problem identification, escalation, and resolution occurs in an expedient manner on all platforms.
• Oversees the implementation and maintenance of policies and procedures, system monitoring and automation, and troubleshooting activities. Identifies opportunities for continuous improvement. Ensures the maintenance of the telecom network documentation repository.
• Participates in the development of short and long term department goals. Implements operational plans to achieve department objectives. Ensures service level commitments are clearly understood to meet business needs.
• Manages the testing, evaluation, and selection of vendor products and manages relationships with vendors.
• Ensures compliance with Information Technology and Information Security policies and procedures within the team, an ensures deliverables meet Information Security Requirements.
• Leads the management and strategy of data center network fabrics, including leaf-spine architectures and software-defined networking (SDN) solutions.

• Ensures data center network architectures support high availability, fault isolation, east-west traffic optimization, and automation.
• Partners with server, storage, virtualization, and security teams to ensure consistent, end-to-end infrastructure design across compute and network domains.
• Evaluates and manages data center networking technologies and vendors based on scalability, operational complexity, TCO, and lifecycle alignment.
• Collaborates with Network management peers to ensure consistent end-to-end availability and performance of Vanguard's network services.

• Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.

• • Minimum of ten years related work experience. Network experience preferred.
  • Undergraduate degree in a related field or the equivalent combination of training and experience. Graduate degree preferred.
  • Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP), Cisco Certified Internetwork Engineer (CCIE), or Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP) preferred.
  • Working knowledge of data center networking concepts, including BGP, EVPN, VXLAN, and leaf-spine topologies.
  • Experience managing senior technical engineers and enterprise networking vendors.
  • Understanding of integrating a comprehensive network stack and hybrid cloud connectivity.