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Director- Network Engineering

Employer
Georgia Tech
Location
Atlanta, Georgia

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Technology, Network & Systems Administration
Institution Type
Four-Year Institution

Job Purpose: This position is the top networking architecture and design function for Georgia Tech’s campus and is responsible for the campus network engineering technology plans, specifications and implementations including all voice, data, wireless, and network assets. This position represents Georgia Tech at national network technology forums as well as executive leadership for other programs and projects.  

Major Responsibilities:

  • Oversee all campus network architecture design, planning, development and implementation to ensure optimum performance, accessibility, and reliability of network resources to the GT community.
  • Develop, lead, and counsel staff through coaching, education, mentoring, and providing continual evaluation of employee development with the end goal of ensuring top performance.
  • Define 24/7 network monitoring metrics and response criteria. Collaborate with the system management team to deploy and maintain the required networking tools. Ensure solutions and services are linked to business strategy with measurable benefits.
  • Participate in budgetary planning by assessing department and customer requirements, outlining anticipated expenditures and proposing fund allocation to support the needs of the Institute.
  • Executive leadership and strategic development for other programs and projects.
  • Support and contribute to the Campus Strategic planning process. Prepare reports, briefings, business models, and operational plans for presentation to Senior and Executive Campus Leadership.
  • Basic Qualifications:
  • Education: A Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Computer Science or related field.
  • Work Experience: Ten or more years of job related experience or any equivalent combination.
  • Certifications: N/A
  • Skills: Must have experience designing and managing networks that support very large, high traffic public internet sites. Extensive knowledge of load balancing products and techniques. Demonstrated experience with principal network equipment, carriers, current network technologies, and current web application technologies. Solid understanding of IT Security best practices with extensive knowledge of firewall, IPS, and IDS and other means of securing and controlling unauthorized access to data. Expertise with data center equipment and data center management best practices, and familiarity with SAN/NAS technologies, and database technologies. Ability to motivate and lead engineering and operational support groups, with a demonstrated track record of building and maintaining highly collaborative, flexible, and productive cross-organization teams. Ability to facilitate collaboration among internal and external resources. Comprehensive knowledge of local and wide area IP networking engineering including: bandwidth provisioning and security programs for very high bandwidth internet sites; carrier-class telecommunications services; unicast and multicast streaming media distribution technologies, load balancing and failover management technology, network management tools, an caching environment design and integration.

 

  Qualifications   Preferred Qualifications:

  • Preferred Education: Master's degree
  • Preferred Work Experience:  Experience with regional research and education networking
  • Preferred Certifications:CISSP, BICSI, Cisco, Juniper
  • Preferred Skills: Experience with networks supporting distributed applications, cloud or cloud computing infrastructures.  Diversity awareness and application. The ability to lead and manage a large team (40+).  
  • Additional Duties include: Lead teams responsible for internet routing, firewall infrastructure, cable plant infrastructure, LAN/WAN switching, HPC networking, Wi-Fi infrastructure, 9,000+ telephone lines. Manage vendors.  Design, plan, budget, procure, configure, and install networking systems.  Coordinate and consult with IT and departmental customers.  Provide strategic and tactical plans for operating a high performance network infrastructure.  Represent Georgia Tech at state, regional, and national events.  Participate in Georgia Tech Information Technology strategy and coordination.
  •  Additional Information: N/A Impact & Influence: This position will interact on a consistent basis with: Executive leadership, Directors, Managers, IT personnel, administrative and financial staff, both internal and external to the Institute. This position will typically advise and counsel: Same as above. This position will supervise: Department managers for Network Backbone, Telecomm, CATV, Wireless, and Engineering Teams.   Department Description  Network Engineering is a part of the Infrastructure and Foundational Technologies team headed by the Chief Operating Officer IT.  Network Engineering is responsible for the telecom network, CATV network, IP network, as well as the copper and fiber cable plant infrastructure for the Institute.  Wireless networking, firewall operation and management, interfaces with mobile carriers (DAS), and DNS are all part of the responsibility of the network engineering department.

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