Director Network Engineering & Administration
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Role summary
Manages, directs, or supervises staff and the strategic design, planning, maintenance, upgrading and administration of the organization’s computer networks. Manages, directs, or supervises staff and the design, planning, maintenance, upgrading and administration of the organization’s computer networks. This includes the effective tactical management and administration of a configuration of network equipment, routers, switches, servers, wireless technologies, workstations, firewalls and other peripheral systems and appliances. Interacts with peer levels in the business groups to get a detailed understanding of their current and future business objectives and translates those needs into network engineering goals project plans. Manages the detailed evaluation of emerging network related technology innovations to determine their technical applicability to the organization, from a compatibility, scalability, performance, security and integration perspective. May have responsibility to deliver on multiple simultaneous operational projects within the networking engineering group. Requires progressive IT network design, management and administration experience in a large complex organization.
Job summary sourced from the Empsight benchmark job library.
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