Senior Manager, Core Network
Schneider Electric
policy compliance
team coaching
capacity planning
supplier liaison
service monitoring
kpi tracking
Work closely with other GTS product ownership to align on the strategies and support each other on live services.
Liaise with Core network suppliers support to get incidents resolved as soon as possible.
Work closely with the business representatives to ensure/ improve the availability of services.
The Core Network Senior Manager will analyze market network solutions and envision future services and their benefits. They will collaborate with solution architects to define E2E services, including service catalogues, contracts, and costs. Additionally, they will promote infrastructure standards, rules, and technologies across the Schneider ecosystem.
Develop a best-in class monitoring to support SLA’s determined on the platform side.
Build an efficient and performant team: solution architects, SREs, governance to provide the services to the business.
Create a vision for the core network for the part 3 to 5 years - align with other teams and publish a finalized strategy.
The Core Network Senior Manager will collaborate with local business representatives, suppliers, and various GTS product domains (Infrastructure, Governance, Cloud, Microservices, DevOps, Cybersecurity), as well as Service Delivery, Operations, and the PMO. They will ensure adherence to network standards and governance, guaranteeing uninterrupted service availability to the business.
Track the KPIs of its services on regular basis and provide improvement plans.
Analyze the market for network related solution, be up to date with innovation topics.
Responsible to build and maintain relationship with all suppliers, improve on the efficiency and costs.
Define/ Maintain E2E services for the core network with clear inventory, processes, ownership and KPIs in place.
Provides support as required during critical (high) incidents related to core network capabilities under ownership.
- Support the team to ensure their compliance with the Schneider policies and processes, and specifically to the Togaf, DevOps framework.
- Provide mentoring and coaching to the team members.
- Support the team members in their career development and help them develop their skills
- Assessment of resource capacity facilitating the allocation of resources to best align to the portfolio.
ccnp
ccie
togaf
sd-wan
bgp
leadership
There will be a need for the Senior Manager to travel domestic and/ or internationally(25%)
We are looking for IMPACT Makers; exceptional people who turn sustainability ambitions into actions at the intersection of automation, electrification, and digitization. We celebrate IMPACT Makers and believe everyone has the potential to be one.
You must submit an online application to be considered for any position with us. This position will be posted until filled.
This is a role with technical know-how, strong leadership qualities to eager drive core network initiatives, transformations from start to finish and lead on the global core network strategy in IT strategies and programs.
- Be sharp, with good interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills, comfortable working within a multinational team.
- Relevant Professional certifications: Wireless: Cisco Certified Network Professional Wireless (CCNP Wireless), Certified Wireless Network Professional (CWNP) or Certified Wireless Network Expert (CWNE); LAN and WAN: CCIE (Routing and Switching) or CCNP (Routing and Switching ).DC: CCNP ( Data Center)
- Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks like TOGAF and Zachmann
- Technical writing experience.
- Master’s degree in a Computer Science or equivalent demonstrable professional experience.
- Adequate core network management, logging and monitoring tools knowledge
- 5 years’ experience as a Core Network Architect and/or Engineer
- Advanced virtualization technologies knowledge
- Advanced knowledge of SDN solutions: SD-WAN , SD-DC (we use Cisco today)
- Advanced knowledge of Lan and WiFi solutions (we use Cisco today; other technologies are nice to have)
- Experience with DDI solutions: DHCP, DNS, NTP
- ITIL V4, Dev/SecOps and Enterprise Architecture frameworks (TOGAF, Zachman, DoDAF, Gartner Methodology).
- Experience with routing design, techniques, and protocols such as BGP and OSPF
- 3 years’ experience architecting core network solutions
- Ability to work independently with minimal direction; self-starter/self-motivated
- Nice to have certifications: Cloud (AWS, Microsoft Azure),
- 3 to 5 years of leadership core for the core network services.
- Authentication, Directory Services, LDAP and IAM: Microsoft Active Directory & Azure Active Directory, Certificate Services, Single Sign-On, AWS IAM, SAML, OAuth.
- Advanced knowledge of disaster recovery services & strategies
- Experienced in working knowledge of DevOps frameworks.
- Adequate working knowledge of security and hardening concepts
€36 billion global revenue+13% organic growth150 000+ employees in 100+ countries#1 on the Global 100 World’s most sustainable corporations
*core network includes complete network connectivity to our resources on premise and on cloud.
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