Director of Network Engineering & Connectivity Solutions

The Panel; Dublin; Hybride; EUR 150 000 - 190 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

The Panel in Dublin is seeking a Director of Network Engineering & Connectivity Solutions to own the strategy for a large, complex network estate and lead a hybrid team. The role partners with an external MSP to govern delivery and outcomes.

Ideal candidates have extensive hands-on network engineering background, senior leadership experience, and proven governance of major outsourced contracts within regulated or critical infrastructure sectors.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in network engineering and telecoms (including regulated or critical-infrastructure environments).
• 5+ years in senior leadership with real delivery accountability.
• Genuine MSP-governance experience and experience running outsourced network contracts.

Responsabilités

• Own the end-to-end network and connectivity strategy for the organisation and deliver it.
• Govern the key Managed Network Service Provider on performance, commercials and outcomes.
• Drive the shift to intelligent, self-healing networks: SDN, automation, Zero Trust, cloud connectivity and AIOps.
• Keep critical services secure, resilient and recoverable by design.

Description du poste

Director of Network Engineering & Connectivity Solutions

Dublin based - Hybrid arrangement ( 3 days per week in office).

The network backbone behind critical national infrastructure needs a leader who delivers, not just designs. The Panel is partnering with a leading regulated organisation to appoint a Director of Network Engineering & Connectivity Solutions, owning the strategy for a large, complex network estate and being accountable for executing it. You will work in partnership with the external MSP. The role is closer to a traditional domain-head role, with strategy responsibilities layered on top, than the infra-transformation role is.

The ideal candidate will have 10+ years in network engineering and telecoms (including regulated or critical-infrastructure environments), 5+ years in senior leadership with real delivery accountability, and genuine MSP-governance experience.

This is a candidate who has IT leadership background combined with in depth technology background, hands-on technologist, close to delivery, owns the outcome.

A very strong experienced network engineering leader, not a generalist infrastructure or DC candidate, who has also run a large outsourced network contract (ideally a Tier 1 telco or major MSP) inside financial services or another critical-infrastructure sector. You should have deep technical credibility in SDN/networking plus real commercial/contractual muscle managing a strategic supplier at scale

Role / Function

a domain-owner role for networking and connectivity specifically (WAN, LAN, Wi-Fi, data centre and cloud networking, SDN), with a heavy and explicit emphasis on governing the organisation's Managed Network Service Provider. This person is accountable for the actual availability, resilience and performance of network services, and leads a hybrid team of internal SMEs plus the strategic service partner.

Responsibilities include :

• Own the end-to-end network and connectivity strategy, and deliver it.
• Govern the key Managed Network Service Provider on performance, commercials and outcomes.
• Drive the shift to intelligent, self-healing networks: SDN, automation, Zero Trust, cloud connectivity and AIOps.
• Keep critical services secure, resilient and recoverable by design.