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Manager, Network Engineering - Hands on
SALARY: $123K - $155K flex PLUS 15% BONUS
LOCATION: CHICAGO, IL
Hybrid, 3 days in office
Mandatory Five day in office from Aug 4th-Sept 26th, 2025
Looking for a hands on manager of WAN / LAN, CISCO, AIC, checkpoint, F5. 2 years leading teams in advanced routing protocols BGP MPLS OSPF. Support of network troubleshooting, devops, ansible, terraform, Jenkins, python, github.
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.
- 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
Qualifications:
- 2 years experience successfully managing / leading technical teams.
- Understanding of network management, security, monitoring
- 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
Salary : $123,000 - $155,000
