Senior Network Engineering Leader (Remote)

Oportun; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 128,000 - 204,000; Full time

Job summary

Oportun is seeking a Senior Manager, Networking to lead a hands-on team delivering enterprise networking across on-prem, cloud, and secure-access environments. You’ll translate business needs into scalable network architectures, drive automation, and modernize SD-WAN and cloud integrations.

The role combines architecture, design reviews, vendor evaluations, and cross-functional collaboration with Security, Cloud, and Infra teams to improve availability, security, and developer experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a high-performing networking engineering team focused on architecture, solution design, implementation, automation, and modernization of Oportun’s enterprise network.
• Own the technical roadmap for enterprise networking, translating business and technology strategy into scalable architectures, engineering priorities, and multi-quarter initiatives.
• Architect and deliver solutions across routing, switching, wireless, VPN, firewalls, load balancing, SD-WAN, secure access, cloud networking, and hybrid connectivity.
• Establish reference architectures, engineering standards, reusable design patterns, and guardrails that improve consistency, resiliency, security, and speed of delivery.
• Drive network automation and infrastructure-as-code practices using Python, Ansible, Terraform, PowerShell, APIs, and CI/CD workflows.
• Partner with Information Security, Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure, End User Computing, application teams, and business stakeholders to engineer solutions for new capabilities, migrations, office/site changes, cloud adoption, and security initiatives.
• Lead technical design reviews, proof-of-concepts, vendor evaluations, capacity planning, and complex troubleshooting; provide engineering direction for high-impact incidents when deep network expertise is required.
• Modernize Oportun’s networking platforms and services across Cisco/Juniper, Aruba/Mist, Palo Alto, Zscaler, Aviatrix, Azure, and AWS, balancing technical debt reduction with new capability delivery.
• Build observability into network solutions by defining telemetry, performance measures, health signals, and actionable monitoring that enable proactive engineering and rapid fault isolation.
• Own engineering lifecycle practices including architecture documentation, design specifications, implementation plans, testing, validation, change readiness, and knowledge transfer to teams responsible for ongoing service support.
• Manage strategic vendor and service-provider relationships, including technology selection, technical performance, roadmap alignment, commercial planning, and lifecycle decisions.
• Lead hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development while creating a culture of technical ownership, experimentation, engineering rigor, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Network engineering

Leadership

Cloud networking

Security collaboration

Automation

Python

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Cisco/Juniper

Aruba/Mist

Palo Alto

Zscaler

Aviatrix

Azure

AWS

Job description

Oportun is seeking a Senior Manager, Networking to lead a hands-on team delivering enterprise networking across on-prem, cloud, and secure-access environments. You’ll translate business needs into scalable network architectures, drive automation, and modernize SD-WAN and cloud integrations.

The role combines architecture, design reviews, vendor evaluations, and cross-functional collaboration with Security, Cloud, and Infra teams to improve availability, security, and developer experience.