Hybrid full time opportunity for our global, professional services client.
Candidates outside of Washington, DC may be considered for remote opportunity
Job DescriptionThe Global Manager Network Services will lead a team responsible for the design, implementation, monitoring, maintenance, and support of the client’s global 24x7 voice, LAN, WAN, cloud connectivity, internet services, and network security platforms.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Network Engineers supporting the client’s global network environment.
- Manage team workload, workflow, staffing, performance, training, and on-call engineering schedules.
- Oversee the design, implementation, maintenance, and support of voice, LAN, WAN, wireless, cloud networking, internet edge, and network security services.
- Establish and maintain network policies, procedures, standards, documentation, and operational controls.
- Ensure compliance with change-management, maintenance, disaster recovery, business continuity, security, and documentation requirements.
- Partner with Information Security, Compliance, Systems Infrastructure, Enterprise Applications, Service Desk, and Technical Architecture teams to deliver reliable and secure technology services.
- Lead network modernization initiatives, including SASE, SD-WAN, cloud networking, automation, and security enhancements.
- Review and approve network designs, implementation plans, and infrastructure standards to ensure alignment with business, cybersecurity, and operational requirements.
- Manage network hardware lifecycle, capacity planning, availability, and performance optimization.
- Coordinate with IT leadership, project managers, vendors, and other stakeholders to ensure projects are appropriately planned, staffed, monitored, and delivered.
- Develop operational metrics and provide clear reporting on network availability, performance, service delivery, and improvement initiatives.
- Facilitate regular operational meetings, service reviews, and technical strategy discussions.
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, or a related field; equivalent experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
- A minimum of five years of experience leading network engineering and operations teams.
- Experience managing teams and supporting a global, 24x7 enterprise environment.
- Advanced knowledge of Cisco routing and switching technologies, including BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, VLANs, QoS, and TCP/IP networking.
- Experience with SASE technologies, including SD-WAN, Zero Trust, and secure remote access.
- Strong knowledge of network security technologies, including VPNs, firewalls, NAC, IDS/IPS, and secure remote-access solutions.
- Experience with cloud networking, wireless networking, internet edge infrastructure, high-availability design, and network monitoring and performance-management platforms.
- Familiarity with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform or comparable network automation tools.
- Knowledge of disaster recovery, business continuity, capacity planning, and operational governance.
- Strong project-management, communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in a professional services, legal, financial services, or other highly regulated environments.
- Cisco CCNP Enterprise, CCIE, or Cisco SD-WAN certification.
- CISSP, CISM, or a comparable security certification.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, or a related field; equivalent experience may be considered.
- Minimum five years of experience leading network engineering and operations teams.
- Experience managing teams and supporting a global, 24x7 enterprise environment.
- Advanced knowledge of Cisco routing and switching, including BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, VLANs, QoS, and TCP/IP networking.
- Experience with SASE technologies, including SD-WAN, Zero Trust, and secure remote access.
- Strong knowledge of VPNs, firewalls, NAC, IDS/IPS, and secure remote-access solutions.
- Experience with cloud networking, wireless networking, internet edge infrastructure, high-availability design, and network monitoring platforms.
- Familiarity with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform or comparable network automation tools.
- Knowledge of disaster recovery, business continuity, capacity planning, and operational governance.
- Strong project-management, communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Experience in professional services, legal, financial services, or other highly regulated environments.
- Cisco CCNP Enterprise, CCIE, or Cisco SD-WAN certification.
- CISSP, CISM, or comparable security certification.
What We Do
STONE SEARCH is a boutique Executive Search firm specializing in the placement of seasoned professionals within the internetworking/intranetworking fields of technology in both full time and consulting engagements. We focus on “Bleeding Edge” Technology, from Financial Trading Systems to Multi-Site Commercial Networks. Stone Search was founded in November, 2001 and is led by Michael Stone, formerly of The Gardner Group. After being in the technical recruitment business for eight years, Michael decided to take his extensive knowledge and contacts under his own “roof.” The Stone Search team includes recruiters experienced in the technology industry. Our collective experience ranges from former hardware engineers to sales and marketing and human resource trained professionals. We all share similar methods of recruiting and strong ethics. The team feels that there is nothing more important than representing each company like a trusted employee and each candidate like a colleague that we deal with everyday. We do extensive Management and Executive Management search as well. In addition, we have expertise recruiting for the “Big 4” professional services firms as well as many similar organizations. We are able to locate road warriors willing to do 100% travel for these types of organizations. With over 15 years of experience bringing technology experts to businesses and helping in the career progression of several return candidates, Stone Search has deep industry qualifications. In addition, we have a strong network of candidates, recruiters, and corporate resources to broaden our searches. This value-added approach distinguishes Stone Search from our competitors.








