Network Engineering Manager: Secure, 24x7 IT Leadership

Space Coast Credit Union; Town of Florida (NY); On-site; USD 154,000 - 163,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Wellness

Financial Perks

Education Support

Generous Time Off

Exclusive Discounts

Job summary

Space Coast Credit Union (SCCU) seeks a Manager of Network Engineering to lead the IT Network Engineering function, ensuring secure, reliable, and highly available network infrastructure across the organization.

You will plan and direct LAN/WAN, wireless, firewall, VPN, and cloud connectivity activities while upholding industry best practices for security, scalability, and business continuity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or other relevant degree or equivalent experience is required.
• 8-10 years of Network Engineering experience, including 3-5 years of Management experience in a technical role required.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for managing network operations, engineering strategy, and service reliability in a 24x7 operating environment.
• Plans, coordinates, directs, and designs operational activities of the IT Network Engineering team, including LAN, WAN, wireless, firewall, VPN, cloud connectivity, and network services.
• Responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining industry best practices to secure network infrastructure, perimeter defenses, segmentation, and remote access capabilities across the organization.
• Continually develops strategies, standards, and procedures to maintain secure network defenses against unauthorized access to internal, external, branch, data center, cloud, and remote connectivity environments.
• Oversee network architecture and technical designs that provide high levels of availability, performance, redundancy, and security while complying with enterprise architecture standards, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices.
• Works closely with IT leadership, security, infrastructure, application, and business stakeholders to identify, recommend, implement, and support cost-effective network technology solutions.
• Serves as primary point of contact and liaison between IT Network Engineering, Information Security, Infrastructure, Operations, and business technology teams.
• Manages all the deliverables to ensure adherence to deadlines, specifications, and budgets.
• Manage relationships with telecom carriers, internet service providers, network vendors, and managed service providers to ensure operational excellence and reliable connectivity.
• Implements network performance metrics, availability reporting, capacity planning, SLA monitoring, and periodic reporting for leadership.
• Monitors and tracks project progress and reports findings to leadership.
• Ensures staff keeps current with technological developments within the industry.
• Provide after-hours support for network maintenance, upgrades, patching, incident response, outage resolution, and change implementation.

Skills

Network Engineering

Management

Team Leadership

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Information Technology or equivalent

Job description

Space Coast Credit Union (SCCU) seeks a Manager of Network Engineering to lead the IT Network Engineering function, ensuring secure, reliable, and highly available network infrastructure across the organization.

You will plan and direct LAN/WAN, wireless, firewall, VPN, and cloud connectivity activities while upholding industry best practices for security, scalability, and business continuity.