MQ Referrals Only - Senior Manager, Network Operations

• You bring 7+ years of network engineering experience in production environments and at least 3 years leading and developing technical teams • You're a hands-on Cisco expert — deeply comfortable with switching platforms and routing protocols like BGP and OSPF, and confident in your ability to operate at both a strategic and technical level • You've architected and managed Palo Alto Networks firewall deployments and understand how network security decisions ripple across an organization • You have deep, practical knowledge of AWS cloud networking — VPCs, Transit Gateways, Direct Connect, CloudFront, Route53 — and know how to design for resilience at scale • You have a track record of owning and maintaining high-availability networks at 99.9%+ uptime, and you take that standard personally • Infrastructure-as-code is part of how you work — you're experienced with Terraform and understand the value of treating infrastructure like software • You think in systems and automate by instinct — with a strong foundation in network automation, scripting, and DevOps practices that help your team move faster with fewer errors • You're as comfortable in a vendor negotiation or colocation facility conversation as you are in a technical design review • You hold a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or have built equivalent expertise through hands-on experience • Nice-To-Haves • Nice-To-Haves • Experience working in payments, financial services, or another highly regulated industry — you already understand what it means to operate in a high-stakes compliance environment • Familiarity with PCI-DSS or other compliance frameworks, and how they shape network design and security decisions • Industry certifications such as CCIE, CCNP, PCNSE, or AWS Advanced Networking that demonstrate your depth of expertise • Hands-on experience with network observability tools and practices, and a habit of using data to stay ahead of issues before they become incidents • A background in leading infrastructure modernization or cloud migration initiatives — you've navigated the complexity before and know how to bring teams along for the journey • Experience with SD-WAN technologies and an understanding of how they fit into a modern, distributed network architecture • Typical Process • Typical Process • Application Submission • Recruiter phone call • Hiring manager video call • Virtual “Onsite” consisting of 4-5, 45 min calls