Director – Core Network Services in Bad Homburg, Germany
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I'm excited to share that one of our clients in Germany is hiring for a Director – Core Network Services! Below are the job details. If you're interested, please send your CV to apply.
Title: Director – Core Network Services
Location: Bad Homburg, Germany
Duration: Permanent, full-time
Job Type: Hybrid / Onsite
Languages: German (Native) and English
The ideal candidate has a strong focus on technical leadership skills with strong people leadership skills to support the successful implementation of a large portfolio of project work. The Director has significant experience in traditional data network management and has already made the transition to cloud environments: participating in cloud migrations, receiving training in CSP services ideally Azure. The Director thrives on organizing a team and delivering results in a heavily matrixed environment.
The candidate shall have business relationship skills, as he/she will be the senior-most Network team representative
Responsibilities:
- Lead network engineering staff primarily located in EMEA region; provide structured organizational leadership to the team.
- Guide and develop the technical staff, leading them from traditional data center networking to cloud networking in terms of skills, processes, and mind-set.
- Navigate a matrixed, large environment to deliver projects within a fast-paced environment on time and within budget; remove technical and non-technical roadblocks for the team.
- Oversee the management of project budgets either by self or by the Project Managers.
- Work with peer groups and consultants to build a landing zone architecture; and to assess/remediate prior non-standard deployments that may contain security or operational vulnerabilities.
- Work and support Global Real Estate stakeholders steering new buildings engineering from design to implementation of networks. The role shall facilitate the interactions with the wider network Team.
- Serve as a strategic interface to peer groups and business units who generate project work for the network function. Communicate strategy plans and project plans to the business unit points of contact; bring business requirements back to the core network team.
- Provide decision-making analysis and recommendations for the selection of solutions, vendors, proposals, cost scenarios, etc.
- Provide or at least support to organize occasional tier-3 support for escalated incidents & problems on best effort basis.
- Work with application owners and systems engineers to anticipate and plan for changes and hyper care associated with planned migrations.
- Drive the development of technical standards around data center/cloud networks, trust zone architectures, and other core/shared network services.
Required Skills & Experience:
- Demonstrated experience and skills performing the responsibilities above.
- Minimum of 5 years directly managing technical staff in a medium or large enterprise (10,000 or more employees preferred).
- Minimum of 5 years leading large / complex IT projects (network project experience is preferred, but experience will be considered in managing other areas of IT infrastructure).
- High-level technical skills in at least one of the areas within the scope of the role, along with strong broad skills across networking.
- The Manager is expected to understand the basic architecture and design of the client's network, but not necessarily at a detailed engineering level.
- Ability to build, motivate and develop teams.
- Ability to influence a variety of stakeholders and to drive changes of behavior in technical staff (e.g. to become more disciplined in documentation, requirements gathering and change control; to learn more technical depth; and to learn and accept broader responsibilities, etc.).
- Budget Management experience.
- Project & Portfolio Management skills.
- Candidate must be highly organized, process-oriented, and disciplined in terms of developing and following procedures, producing documentation, and making data-driven decisions.
- Interpersonal and communication skills; ability to collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders in highly matrixed environment.
- Strong sense of ownership, customer service, organization, and follow-through.
- Ability to prioritize work and manage time effectively.
- Ability to work in a highly visible, fast-paced environment with minimal supervision.
- Positive, collaborative, supportive, problem-solving approach to working with others.
Preferred Additional Skills & Experience:
- Previous or current network certifications are preferred such as CCNP/CCIE/CISP.
- Azure certifications are highly desirable.
- Network architecture / design experience or expertise.
- International experience, holding responsibility for multinational staff and/or projects.
- ITIL v4 certification is beneficial.
