Director, Residential ISP Network Strategy & Engineering

BrainWorks; Town of Texas (WI); Hybrid; USD 153,000 - 187,000; Full time

Job summary

BrainWorks in Dallas–Fort Worth, TX seeks a Director of Network Planning & Engineering to lead strategy, planning, engineering, and expansion of a residential broadband network. You will manage an experienced team and own the technical roadmap across core/backbone, regional aggregation, peering, transit, and tower backhaul.

The ideal candidate combines strong service-provider depth with leadership capability to set strategy, drive growth, and foster an empowered engineering organization.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive network engineering experience in a residential ISP environment.
• 5+ years of direct people leadership experience, preferably Senior Manager level or above.
• Experience leading planning and engineering of production networks delivering broadband to residential customers.
• Strong experience across service-provider core/backbone, aggregation, backhaul, capacity planning, peering, and transit.
• 5+ years hands-on leadership with Cisco service-provider networks (routing and architecture for large-scale production).
• Strong understanding of BGP, routing architecture, resiliency, and high-availability network design.
• Experience owning third-party carrier relationships and negotiations.
• CCNP/CCIE or comparable Cisco service-provider expertise preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of approximately 10 Network Engineering and Planning professionals.
• Own the technical strategy and roadmap for the production network.
• Lead network planning and execution to support market and network expansion.
• Own planning across core/backbone POPs, regional aggregation, peering/transit, and tower backhaul.
• Design and deliver tower and regional backhaul solutions.
• Own third-party carrier relationships, including performance, pricing, renewals, and negotiations.
• Identify opportunities to improve carrier performance and reduce network costs.
• Partner with Network Operations and provide leadership during major outages or events.
• Develop the engineering team and build ownership and accountability across the organization.
• Establish priorities and processes to avoid centralized decision-making.

Skills

Residential ISP experience

People leadership

BGP / routing architecture

Cisco service-provider networks

Carrier relationships

Tower backhaul planning

Network strategy & roadmap

Tools

Cisco routing & switching

Backbone/core network design

Job description

BrainWorks in Dallas–Fort Worth, TX seeks a Director of Network Planning & Engineering to lead strategy, planning, engineering, and expansion of a residential broadband network. You will manage an experienced team and own the technical roadmap across core/backbone, regional aggregation, peering, transit, and tower backhaul.

The ideal candidate combines strong service-provider depth with leadership capability to set strategy, drive growth, and foster an empowered engineering organization.