Director – Network Infrastructure (Financial Services Industry)
- In collaboration with the relevant stakeholders, define the Network vision and drive all aspects of the Network Strategy, ensuring that technology-based solutions and services are fully supported by the right architectures, systems and operating models.
- Accountable for Global Network Services, Projects, Operations , Engineering
- Partner with the business to understand evolving work trends in design, engineering and modelling software which need to be supported by the underlying network infrastructure
Responsibilities
- Overall management responsibilities for Network teams (around 30 engineers).
- Act as the subject matter expert on Network technology and services matters, challenging and coaching Network leads / managers, thriving to exceed Service Level Objectives and delivering outstanding value to the business.
- Managing network solutioning / architecture as well as network implementation and upgrades
- Manage the organization’s networks and take accountability for the worldwide service.
- Ensure all network service outages are restored in a timely manner and abide by the fix once principles
- Lead and manage the Network Services function to ensure a coordinated, user orientated service
- Manage vendor relationships by communicating effectively, holding vendors accountable, and cultivating a positive working relationship;
- Ensure that technology standards and best practices are maintained across the organisation.
- Work with Product Owners and stakeholders in other departments to ensure that Technology strategy and execution align.
- Work closely with the Network Solutions Architect to ensure that designs are properly thought through in a timely manner as necessary for project deliveries.
- Drive continual service improvement initiatives aimed at improving service quality, IT and business outcomes.
Management
- Manage the budget for Network Services including reporting and forecasting
- Manage network supplier relationships, to ensure that the supplier portfolio meets organization needs.
- Managing network security by working closely with Information Security, to ensure that networks are maintained in a highly secure state, and that operating procedures and methods are best suited to maintain security of the company networks.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience Essential
- Bachelor’s degree and/or equivalent experience in Information Technology, Computer Science
- Min 5 years of experience in networking, with proven track record of managing sizable enterprise network team
- Experience in all aspects of networking from engineering, deployment to BAU
- Experience in network security
- Significant experience in the following IT infrastructure concepts and solutions:
- In depth knowledge of architectures, monitoring, security control, redundancy, and high availability for network, voice and wireless system
- Firewall and cloud firewall architecture knowledge (Checkpoint and Zscaler)
- F5 load Balancers
- Knowledge of WAN Optimisation (BGP, MPLS, VPN)
- Highly available architectures, with resilient network design experience
- Network performance management and capacity planning
- Strong knowledge of cyber-security and Network Security.
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