Director - Network Engineer - DevOps, AI, CMMC

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Develop the network strategy and roadmap that aligns to business and technology objectives.
- Provide direction and manage work assignments for the Network Operations, Engineering, and Architecture teams.
- Ensure the portfolio of network services projects are delivered on-time and within budget.
- Monitor network SLAs and develop strategies to continuously improve service delivery performance.
- Champion the use of automation, agile, and DevOps principles to improve quality, efficiency, and speed of delivery for network services.
- Manage network technology lifecycle to drive innovation, improve security, and reduce technical debt.
- Create consistent, repeatable processes, procedures, and standards that ensure the delivery of high quality and customer focused network services.
- Typically manages a department or small sub-function for the organization OR a job function for a small to mid-sized business, which includes multiple teams led by managers and/or supervisors.

May also lead through influence of other teams/departments.

Typically responsible for creating workforce and staffing plans for department/unit to ensure availability of human capital necessary to accomplish departmental business results.

- Typically has hiring, firing, promotion and reward authority within own area, in accordance with guidelines.

Job-Specific Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Lead the execution of the network services strategy and roadmap, ensuring network capabilities support business objectives, technology modernization initiatives, and operational excellence.

- Provide leadership, mentorship, and strategic direction to a team of high-performing network engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.

- Ensure the successful delivery of network services initiatives, programs, and projects within established timelines and budget expectations.

- Monitor service performance and key operational metrics, driving continuous improvements in reliability, resiliency, security, and customer experience.

- Champion automation, Agile, DevOps, and infrastructure-as-code methodologies to improve quality, efficiency, scalability, and speed of delivery.

- Lead the evolution of network technologies and platforms to drive innovation, strengthen security, reduce technical debt, and support cloud-first business strategies.

- Establish and maintain repeatable processes, standards, governance, and best practices that ensure consistent delivery of high-quality network services.

- Partner with business and technology stakeholders to align network capabilities with current and future business requirements.

- Develop talent through coaching, mentoring, workforce planning, succession planning, and career development activities to build and sustain a high-performing engineering organization.

- Drive adoption of modern networking practices across public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud,...