Network Data Admin (FTE)

Responsibilities:

• Being vision led by providing industry leading infrastructure solutions to the enterprise.
• Build Program timelines, estimate of level of effort, manage milestones, and course correct Programs to maintain overall schedule/cost/quality by mitigating the program risks.
• Orchestrate planning, communications, testing, and stakeholder management across multiple teams.
• Leverage Service or Product expertise to deliver RFI\RFP and Statements of work (SOW). Includes defining technical requirements, leading technical presentations, and reviews, and making solution\design tradeoffs with Telecom carriers.
• Define and negotiate Service Contracts with suppliers. Includes leveraging service expertise to define technical specifications, Service Level Agreements, Product Features and Capabilities.
• Increase reliability of the service through engineering practices, data driven approach, hardware/software refresh programs and optimization efforts.
• Identify opportunities for improvement in existing processes and drive ideas to completion.
• Planning service innovations by exhibiting and employing a product engineering mindset across the team.
• Partner with key stakeholders to drive the procurement, installation, configuration, testing, and deployment of IT infrastructure.
• Modernizing the infrastructure capabilities with market research, adopting cutting edge technologies, and partnering with product managers.
• Modernizing the infrastructure capabilities with market research and adopting cutting edge technologies.
• Developing and sustaining strong working relationships with business, application program managers, ISPs, OEM vendors, Engineering peers.

Required Qualifications:

12+ years of experience in IT Infrastructure management operating in a complex, multi-system environment as a Technical Program manager.

• 5+ years of experience in leading the end-to-end delivery of IT infrastructure services, Telecom Carrier management, RFI, RFP and Statements of work (SOWs) and defining supplier KPIs.
• 5+ Years of relevant experience in networking technologies driving large scale, date driven projects are highly desirable.
• Willingness to work 24X7 shifts.
• Working knowledge of BGP, OSPF and switching concepts like STP, Vlans, etc.
• Configuring Routers & Switches from deployments to Migrations.
• Working knowledge on Cisco / Juniper / F5 / Arista platforms.
• Good knowledge in fundamentals of networking like packet flow ,TCP/IP etc.
• Plan and execute end-to-end delivery of IT infrastructure Programs across the portfolio especially in Networking.
• Demonstrated track record of leading end-to-end delivery of IT infrastructure services and Programs (planning, budget, procurement, installation, configuration, deployment, contract management etc.)
• Excellent organizational and program management skills.
• Expertise in IT infrastructure and Networking technologies.
• Exposure to Cloud technologies would be an added advantage.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills required for preparing clear, concise, and grammatically correct materials and communicating information effectively to others.
• Ability to use various project management methodologies, including agile.
• Solid customer focused, relationship focused pattern of work.
• Ability to create structure from abstract ideas, take initial concepts to full maturity.
• Technically savvy with the ability to solve both technical and non-technical problems.
• BS or MS in computer science, or a related discipline.