Ritchie Bros - Westchester, IL
posted 3 days ago
About the position
The Manager, Network Engineering is responsible for leading a diverse team of network engineers in the design, implementation, and management of RBG's network infrastructure. This role ensures that the organization's network operations are efficient, secure, and scalable to meet current and future business needs. The Network Engineering Manager collaborates with various departments to align network systems with organizational goals and ensures seamless communication and connectivity across all global sites. The position involves both strategic planning and hands-on leadership to drive network projects, maintain operational excellence, and enhance the organization's overall network capabilities, ensuring they meet both current and future demands.
Responsibilities
- Lead, manage and mentor a team of network engineers, ensuring they have the skills, tools, and knowledge to support a complex network infrastructure.
- Assign roles and responsibilities effectively, ensuring the team's workload is balanced and aligned with project priorities.
- Oversee the day-to-day operations, including troubleshooting escalations and resource allocation for critical network support tasks.
- Set clear goals, monitor team performance, and conduct regular performance reviews.
- Lead the design and implementation of a scalable, secure, and resilient global network architecture that spans on-premises data centers, cloud environments, and remote locations.
- Architect solutions that integrate cloud-based networking (AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle) with on-premises systems.
- Develop and execute network strategies aligned with the company's long-term technology roadmap.
- Manage the network infrastructure budget, ensuring cost-effective solutions while meeting performance and security requirements.
- Manage large-scale network projects such as upgrades, expansions, and migration.
- Implement tools and processes to continuously monitor network performance, availability, and security.
- Lead the incident response process for network-related outages or performance degradations.
- Design and implement redundancy strategies such as failover mechanisms, load balancing, and multi-path routing.
- Continuously assess network capacity, usage trends, and future needs.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into technical requirements for network architecture.
- Stay abreast of the latest developments in networking technologies.
- Lead initiatives to automate routine network tasks such as provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and issue resolution.
- Establish and maintain relationships with service providers and technology vendors.
Requirements
- 5 Years management experience.
- 10 years in IT.
- University degree in the field of computer science or information systems or equivalent experience.
