Network Manager - IT

The Timberline Group; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Job summary

The Timberline Group is seeking an experienced IT Infrastructure Architect in St. Louis to lead infrastructure strategy and a team of engineers. You will align with application development, cyber security, and business operations to design scalable, secure network solutions and reduce technical debt through lifecycle management.

You will guide roadmaps, evaluate emerging technologies, and ensure performance across applications and infrastructure with strong communication to executives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, mathematics, computer science, or business.
• 7+ years IT experience; 8+ years in infrastructure architecture; 6+ years in large-scale tech architecture.
• 3+ years of architecture road maps & evangelizing architecture principles.
• Extensive knowledge of SAN, networks, security technologies.
• Strong communications & mentoring experience.

Responsibilities

• Align with application development, cyber security, and business operations teams.
• Maintain uptime and security posture against SLAs with monthly metrics.
• Design and execute vision and network road maps approved by the IT Director.
• Lead a team of engineers/admins; foster trust and high performance.
• Develop reference architectures and reduce technical debt through lifecycle management.
• Evaluate new technologies and standards from an enterprise infrastructure view.
• Provide direction on infrastructure and security standards for scalability and performance.
• Consult on major initiatives and guide design decisions; solve complex tech problems.
• Partner with managers to build cohesive architecture practice across Infrastructure.

Skills

IT leadership

Infrastructure architecture

Large-scale architecture

Network/security knowledge

Communication

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

SAN/Storage networks

LAN/WAN

RF/wireless tech

MPLS/DWDM/GPON

Cloud technologies

HA/DR design

Job description

• Align and collaborate closely with application development, cyber security, and business operations teams.
• Maintain up time and availability, as well as security posture, at established thresholds and SLA's, with measurements and indicators reported and tracked on a monthly basis.
• Design and execute the vision and strategy and network road maps, as aligned with and approved by the Director of IT.
• Ensure Network services are continuously improving, optimized, and aligned to the organization.
• Lead a team of technical engineers/admins, creating an environment of trust, open dialogue, creative thinking and team cohesiveness, setting high standards of team and individual performance, aiding in the development of individual contributors, and providing clarity and alignment on strategic vision and business initiatives.
• Responsible for guiding the development of reference architectures and technology road maps and helping migrate from legacy to modern technologies with an eye on reducing technical debt using solid life cycle management principles.
• Guide the evaluation of new strategic technologies and emerging standards, from an enterprise infrastructure perspective, accounting for future needs as well as established processes.
• Provide direction to the various development, customer, and business groups on infrastructure and security technology standards while ensuring that applications, infrastructure and security needs are architected for total scalability and performance.
• Consult on major initiatives to guide key design decisions and may be called in to help identify solutions to complex technical and business problems as well.
• Partner with other managers and architects to build the cohesive architecture practice across the Infrastructure organization.

Key Responsibilities:

• Align and collaborate closely with application development, cyber security, and business operations teams.

• Maintain up time and availability, as well as security posture, at established thresholds and SLA's, with measurements and indicators reported and tracked on a monthly basis.

• Design and execute the vision and strategy and network road maps, as aligned with and approved by the Director of IT.

• Ensure Network services are continuously improving, optimized, and aligned to the organization.

• Lead a team of technical engineers/admins, creating an environment of trust, open dialogue, creative thinking and team cohesiveness, setting high standards of team and individual performance, aiding in the development of individual contributors, and providing clarity and alignment on strategic vision and business initiatives.

• Responsible for guiding the development of reference architectures and technology road maps and helping migrate from legacy to modern technologies with an eye on reducing technical debt using solid life cycle management principles.

• Guide the evaluation of new strategic technologies and emerging standards, from an enterprise infrastructure perspective, accounting for future needs as well as established processes.

• Provide direction to the various development, customer, and business groups on infrastructure and security technology standards while ensuring that applications, infrastructure and security needs are architected for total scalability and performance.

• Consult on major initiatives to guide key design decisions and may be called in to help identify solutions to complex technical and business problems as well.

• Partner with other managers and architects to build the cohesive architecture practice across the Infrastructure organization.

Job Requirements:
Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree required from an accredited college or university, preferably in engineering, mathematics, computer science, or business.

• 7+ years of IT experience, with at least 8 years with infrastructure architecture and at least 6 years of experience in large scale technology architecture definition.

• 3+ years of experience in developing architecture road maps, reference architectures, and evangelizing adoption of architecture principles in the design and delivery of technology solutions.

• Extensive technical knowledge of Storage Area Networks (SAN), networks components (LAN/WAN), network security and technologies

• Strong understanding of wireless technologies such as LTE, Digital Microwave, Radio Frequency (RF) propagation, and Spectrum Usage, as well as a strong understanding of fiber technologies such as MPLS, DWDM, and GPON technologies.

• Understanding of Cloud technologies and principles

• Extensive experience in HA/DR design, deployment strategies, and principles

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and demonstrated ability to present complex ideas to business and IT executives in a simplified way.

• Experience mentoring technical and solution architects in good design principles.

Successful Candidate will Demonstrate:

• Must have the desire to understand the needs of internal business stakeholders, be conversant with the emerging technology trends and practices within the industry, and maintain good working relationships.

• Proven ability to deliver innovative transformational IT projects, with focus on business value and technical milestones required

• Ability to conceptualize, launch and deliver multiple technology solutions by influencing future technology decisions and directions required

• Must possesses solid financial discipline with the ability to communicate facts with an eye towards cost vs. benefit.

• Must be a confident and innovative leader, excellent communicator and accomplished driver of large-scale technology delivery.

Job Type: Full-time
Experience:

• management: 1 year (Preferred)
• implementing: 1 year (Preferred)
• network administration: 1 year (Preferred)
• linux: 1 year (Preferred)

Benefits:

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance