About the Role
The Manager, Network Infrastructure leads WME's global network and voice estate, encompassing connectivity, wireless, security, and telephony across eight sites. This is a hands-on technical management role, leading a team of four engineers while serving as the senior technical authority for architecture and troubleshooting.
Responsibilities
- Lead, develop, and grow a team of four globally distributed network and voice engineers.
- Own on-call, escalation, and coverage models; build backup coverage that eliminates single points of failure.
- Set team priorities and workload across time zones and sites; own the WiFi Engineer contract resource and its month-9 decision.
- Own LAN / WAN architecture and operations, including Cisco switching and campus/data-center networking.
- Manage routing on the Palo Alto firewall platform.
- Own site-to-site connectivity and inter-site VPN.
- Manage internet circuits and carrier / ISP relationships.
- Own core network services: DNS, DHCP, and IP address management (IPAM).
- Own hybrid cloud connectivity – the WAN / circuit side of Azure connectivity.
- Own load balancing and application delivery.
- Own enterprise wireless (WLAN) architecture, performance, and operations.
- Ensure a reliable, secure wireless experience for all users.
- Direct the WiFi Engineer contractor's RF design and remediation work.
- Own Palo Alto NGFW management, including security policy and rule lifecycle.
- Implement and operate Zero Trust network architecture, segmentation, 802.1X, and network access control (NAC).
- Own remote access VPN and SASE / SSE connectivity.
- Partner with the cybersecurity function on security incident response and triage.
- Own VoIP and unified communications across the estate, including Cisco Call Manager (CUCM) administration.
- Manage dial plans, SIP trunking, PSTN connectivity, and E911 compliance.
- Own voice quality of service (QoS) end-to-end.
- Build backup coverage for the voice / telecom function to remove key-person risk.
- Own network monitoring, observability, performance management, and capacity planning.
- Own network resilience, including redundancy, failover, and disaster-recovery posture.
- Run change management for the network and voice estate.
- Maintain topology and configuration documentation.
- Own the physical network layer across sites, including structured cabling and switch hardware lifecycle.
- Drive network automation and infrastructure-as-code using tools like Ansible and Python.
- Manage network and voice vendors, hardware / circuit lifecycle, and renewals.
- Apply AI / AIOps tooling to operations where it adds value.
Requirements
- 8+ years in network engineering with progressive responsibility, including team-lead or people-management experience.
- Deep routing and switching expertise.
- Palo Alto NGFW management experience.
- Core network services experience (DNS, DHCP, IPAM).
- Enterprise wireless (WLAN) design and operations experience.
- Network security expertise, including Zero Trust, 802.1X, NAC, and segmentation.
- Remote access VPN and secure connectivity experience.
- Voice / unified communications experience, including Cisco Call Manager (CUCM).
- Experience managing internet circuits and carrier / ISP relationships.
- Hybrid cloud networking experience.
- Load balancing / application delivery experience.
- Network automation / scripting experience (Ansible, Python, or equivalent).
- Experience partnering with security teams on incident response and triage.
- Experience running distributed / global network operations across multiple sites and time zones.
- People management experience, including hiring, developing, and leading engineers.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrated use of AI tooling in technical work.
Skills
- Cisco switching
- Campus networking
- Data-center networking
- Palo Alto firewalls
- Site-to-site VPN
- SD-WAN
- DNS
- DHCP
- IPAM
- WLAN
- Zero Trust
- 802.1X
- NAC
- Segmentation
- GlobalProtect
- SASE
- SSE
- VoIP
- Cisco Call Manager (CUCM)
- SIP trunking
- PSTN
- E911
- QoS
- Ansible
- Python
- F5 load balancing
- AI/AIOps
Location
- Global
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Manager
- 8+ years
Salary/Compensations
- $138,750 - $185,000 annually
Benefits
- Health care
- Retirement
- Vacation
- Other paid time off
- Additional offerings
About the Company
- Enterprise IT runs on one idea: operational excellence — infrastructure that just works, problems fixed at the root, and an engineering bar that keeps climbing.
Equal Opportunity
- WME is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, or religion or belief.
