Senior Manager Network Engineering

Pearson is currently seeking a senior manager to lead our amazing network team. This position is responsible for Pearson's global network, spanning public cloud and private datacenter, which underpins all of Pearson's leading digital learning products. This includes Customer products and Enterprise backend services. The chosen leader will work with internal teams, management, and vendors to deliver, maintain, and enhance our network security posture. The ideal candidate should be people oriented, forward thinking, and detail-oriented with a strong desire to work within a collaborative environment. Must have leadership experience managing a globally dispersed team of engineers.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of network engineers. Provide strategic direction, oversee day-to-day activities, and manage all network driven project deliverables.
• Work directly with peers, senior leadership, and team members from Technology, Security, Risk and Compliance, Site Reliability Engineering, and Product to develop and implement standardized network solutions across the landscape, both on-premises and cloud.
• Responsible for network transformation - goals, roadmap, and delivery, to ensure the network aligns with strategic growth imperatives.
• Proven ability to lead an engineering team responsible for architecture, design, and implementation of SD-WAN and cloud native solutions.
• Ability to translate business requirements into low-level design criteria and facilitate collaborative engineering sessions that result in highly available network solutions.
• Demonstrate a proven track record of success as a leader within fast paced and dynamic environments that span multiple geographical regions.
• Exhibit the ability to leverage interpersonal skills to bring teams and leaders together to meet/exceed organizational goals.
• Leverage business acumen to compile business justification of conceptual ideas to include financial impact, level of effort, benefits/tradeoffs for executive consumption.
• Manage strategic partnerships with vendors to ensure the engineering team stays abreast of industry trends, to include leading proof of concept and product/service evaluation workstreams.
• Contribute to annual capital and business as usual (BAU) planning.
• Empower engineers and manage the delivery of projects - on time and within budget.
• Partner with technology vendors and procurement peers to validate financial costs - capital and expense, statement of work (terms and conditions) that represent technology solutions vetted by network engineering tech leads.
• Be available 24 hours a day 7 days a week on-call as an escalation point.

Technical Skills

• 5+ years as manager for network engineering function, specifically design and delivery expertise
• Functional knowledge of networking and data communication fundamentals including connectivity methods, security functions, and routing/switching protocols - both cloud and on-premises
• Working knowledge of internetworking and security standards (RFC and IETF)
• Expert knowledge of OSI model
• Fundamental networking principles (TCP/IP, OSPF, BGP and EIGRP)
• Technical expertise with F5 load-balancer technology
• Working experience with the following: application firewall inspection, web application firewall, intrusion detection/prevention, dynamic web filtering, internet proxy, firewall management and audit tools
• AWS experience desired.

Competencies

• 4-year university degree or college diploma in computer studies or 8 years equivalent working experience within enterprise networking
• Problem solving/troubleshooting abilities
• Excellent interpersonal skills - oral and written
• Basic financial and accounting knowledge - amortization, depreciation, CAPEX/OPEX
• Ability to work well in a project team environment
• Detail and results oriented
• Customer focused and excellent organizational skills required

What to expect from Pearson

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Job: TECHNOLOGY

Organization: Corporate Strategy & Technology

Schedule: FULL_TIME

Req ID: 11678