Director- Network Engineering

About Us

Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our Strategic Plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

About Georgia Tech

Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech's Mission and Values

Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:

Students are our top priority. We strive for excellence. We thrive on diversity. We celebrate collaboration. We champion innovation. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression. We nurture the wellbeing of our community. We act ethically. We are responsible stewards.

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

About The Office Of Information Technology (OIT)

The Office of Information Technology (OIT) provides information technology leadership and support to the Georgia Institute of Technology, working in partnership with academic and business units to meet the unique needs of a leading research university. OIT serves as the primary source of enterprise-wide information technology and telecommunications services in support of students, faculty, staff, and researchers.

Job Summary

This position is the top networking architecture and design function for Georgia Tech's campus and is responsible for the campus network engineering technology plans, specifications and implementations including all voice, data, wireless, and network assets. This position represents Georgia Tech at national network technology forums as well as executive leadership for other programs and projects. This position will interact on a consistent basis with: Executive leadership, Directors, Managers, IT personnel, administrative and financial staff, both internal and external to the Institute.This position will typically advise and counsel: Same as above.This position will supervise: Department managers for Network Backbone, Telecomm, CATV, Wireless, and Engineering Teams.

Responsibilities

Job Duty 1 -

Oversee all campus network architecture design, planning, development and implementation to ensure optimum performance, accessibility, and reliability of network resources to the GT community

Job Duty 2 -

Develop, lead, and counsel staff through coaching, education, mentoring, and providing continual evaluation of employee development with the end goal of ensuring top performance

Job Duty 3 -

Define 24/7 network monitoring metrics and response criteria; Collaborate with system management team to deploy and maintain the required networking tools; Ensure solutions and services are linked to business strategy with measurable benefit

Job Duty 4 -

Participate in budgetary planning by assessing department and customer requirements, outlining anticipated expenditures and proposing fund allocation to support the needs of the Institute

Job Duty 5 -

Executive leadership and strategic development for other programs and projects

Job Duty 6 -

Support and contribute to the Campus Strategic planning process; Prepare reports, briefings, business models, and operational plans for presentation to Senior and Executive Campus Leadership.

Job Duty 7 -

Perform other duties as assigned

Responsibilities

Overall leadership and management of daily operational workload (DNS/DHCP, cabling infrastructure, wired and wireless networking) to include briefing of any major incidents and reports of same to OIT senior leadership. Overall responsibility for major network projects involving campus access layer, fiber-optic and copper wiring infrastructure, and DNS/DHCP service including vendor refresh or changes. This includes leadership responsibility for yearly access layer upgrades for campus with substantial equipment and infrastructure fit-up budgets typically in excess of $1M. Represent operational side of network team for all future OIT spend forecasts; assist leadership with determining various costs and finalizing plan and budget. Responsibility for annual networking equipment software maintenance cycle (Cisco, Juniper, Arista, et al) - determining which equipment to renew, tracking overall list, and working with leadership to identify funding and drive the purchases.

Educational Requirements

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Computer Science or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience

Other Required Qualifications

Overnight travel required for project delivery; flexibility in on-site daily service delivery hours (due to client shift schedules, project requirements).

Required Experience

Ten years of job related experience

Preferred Qualifications

Additional Preferred Qualifications

Experience with networks supporting distributed applications, cloud or cloud computing infrastructures

Preferred Educational Qualifications

Master's Degree

Proposed Salary

Salary Range- $153,329 to $169,000

Location: Atlanta, GA

Job Grade: I9

SKILLS

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

Experience designing and managing networks that support very large, high traffic public internet sites. Extensive knowledge of load balancing products and techniques. Demonstrated experience with principal network equipment, carriers, current network technologies, and current web application technologies. Solid understanding of IT Security best practices with extensive knowledge of firewall, IPS, and IDS and other means of securing and controlling unauthorized access to data. Expertise with data center equipment and management best practices, and familiarity with SAN/NAS technologies, and database technologies. Ability to motivate and lead engineering and operational support groups, with a demonstrated track record of building and maintaining highly collaborative, flexible, and productive cross-organization teams. Ability to facilitate collaboration among internal and external resources. Comprehensive knowledge of local and wide area IP networking engineering including: bandwidth provisioning and security programs for very high bandwidth internet sites; carrier-class telecommunications services; unicast and multicast streaming media distribution technologies, load balancing and failover management technology, network management tools, an caching environment design and integration.

Equal Employment Opportunity

The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. The University is committed to maintaining a fair and respectful environment for all. To that end, and in accordance with federal and state law, Board of Regents policy, and University policy, Georgia Tech provides equal opportunity to all faculty, staff, students, and all other members of the Georgia Tech community, including applicants for admission and/or employment, contractors, volunteers, and participants in institutional programs, activities, or services. Georgia Tech complies with all applicable laws and regulations governing equal opportunity in the workplace and in educational activities.

Georgia Tech prohibits discrimination, including discriminatory harassment, on the basis of race, ethnicity, ancestry, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, disability, genetics, or veteran status in its programs, activities, employment, and admissions. This prohibition applies to faculty, staff, students, and all other members of the Georgia Tech community, including affiliates, invitees, and guests. Further, Georgia Tech prohibits citizenship status, immigration status, and national origin discrimination in hiring, firing, and recruitment, except where such restrictions are required in order to comply with law, regulation, executive order, or Attorney General directive, or where they are required by Federal, State, or local government contract.

All members of the USG community must adhere to the USG Statement of Core Values, which consists of Integrity, Excellence, Accountability, and Respect. These values shape and fundamentally support our University¿s work. Additionally, all faculty, staff, and administrators must also be aware of and comply with the Board of Regents and Georgia Institute of Technology's policies on Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom. More information on these policies can be found here: Board of Regents Policy Manual | University System of Georgia (usg.edu) .

Other Information

This is not a supervisory position.

This position does not have any financial responsibilities.

This position will not be required to drive.

This role is not considered a position of trust.

This position does not require a purchasing card (P-Card).

This position will not travel

This position does not require security clearance.

Background Check

Successful candidate must be able to pass a background check. Please visit http://policylibrary.gatech.edu/employment/pre-employment-screening