Senior Manager, Core Network

About the job:

Schneider Electric is undergoing a global infrastructure transformation programme, led by the Global Technology Services team (GTS). Working within GTS, the Senior Manager-Core Network will be leading the GTS Infrastructure Architects, Solution Delivery and Operation teams.

Schneider Electric's global transformation program focuses on enhancing business and IT capabilities through data center optimization, cloud migrations, network optimizations, and application modernization. This initiative leverages digital technologies such as Cloud, Microservices, Core Network, and DevOps to drive significant improvements and efficiencies.

The Core Network Senior Manager will analyze market network solutions and envision future services and their benefits. They will collaborate with solution architects to define E2E services, including service catalogues, contracts, and costs. Additionally, they will promote infrastructure standards, rules, and technologies across the Schneider ecosystem.

The Core Network Senior Manager will collaborate with local business representatives, suppliers, and various GTS product domains (Infrastructure, Governance, Cloud, Microservices, DevOps, Cybersecurity), as well as Service Delivery, Operations, and the PMO. They will ensure adherence to network standards and governance, guaranteeing uninterrupted service availability to the business.

This is a role with technical know-how, strong leadership qualities to eager drive core network initiatives, transformations from start to finish and lead on the global core network strategy in IT strategies and programs.
Key Responsibilities:
• Analyze the market for network related solution, be up to date with innovation topics.

• Create a vision for the core network for the part 3 to 5 years - align with other teams and publish a finalized strategy.

• Define/ Maintain E2E services for the core network with clear inventory, processes, ownership and KPIs in place.

• Work closely with the business representatives to ensure/ improve the availability of services.

• Work closely with other GTS product ownership to align on the strategies and support each other on live services.

• Responsible to build and maintain relationship with all suppliers, improve on the efficiency and costs.

• Provides support as required during critical (high) incidents related to core network capabilities under ownership.

• Track the KPIs of its services on regular basis and provide improvement plans.

• There will be a need for the Senior Manager to travel domestic and/ or internationally(25%)

• Build an efficient and performant team: solution architects, SREs, governance to provide the services to the business.

• Develop a best-in class monitoring to support SLA's determined on the platform side.

• Liaise with Core network suppliers support to get incidents resolved as soon as possible.

Team management:

• Provide mentoring and coaching to the team members.
• Support the team members in their career development and help them develop their skills
• Support a culture of continuous improvement and embrace change within the team
• Support the team to ensure their compliance with the Schneider policies and processes, and specifically to the Togaf, DevOps framework.
• Assessment of resource capacity facilitating the allocation of resources to best align to the portfolio.

Key skills and requirements:

Mandatory:

• 3 to 5 years of leadership core for the core network services.
• 5 years' experience as a Core Network Architect and/or Engineer
• 3 years' experience architecting core network solutions
• Experience with routing design, techniques, and protocols such as BGP and OSPF
• Advanced knowledge of SDN solutions: SD-WAN , SD-DC (we use Cisco today)
• Advanced knowledge of Lan and WiFi solutions (we use Cisco today; other technologies are nice to have)
• Experienced in working knowledge of DevOps frameworks.
• Adequate working knowledge of security and hardening concepts
• Advanced virtualization technologies knowledge
• Experience with DDI solutions: DHCP, DNS, NTP
• Authentication, Directory Services, LDAP and IAM: Microsoft Active Directory & Azure Active Directory, Certificate Services, Single Sign-On, AWS IAM, SAML, OAuth.
• Adequate core network management, logging and monitoring tools knowledge
• Advanced knowledge of disaster recovery services & strategies
• Be sharp, with good interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills, comfortable working within a multinational team.
• Ability to work independently with minimal direction; self-starter/self-motivated

Preferred:

• Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks like TOGAF and Zachmann
• Relevant Professional certifications: Wireless: Cisco Certified Network Professional Wireless (CCNP Wireless), Certified Wireless Network Professional (CWNP) or Certified Wireless Network Expert (CWNE); LAN and WAN: CCIE (Routing and Switching) or CCNP (Routing and Switching ).DC: CCNP ( Data Center)
• Nice to have certifications: Cloud (AWS, Microsoft Azure),
• ITIL V4, Dev/SecOps and Enterprise Architecture frameworks (TOGAF, Zachman, DoDAF, Gartner Methodology).
• Technical writing experience.

Education:

• Master's degree in a Computer Science or equivalent demonstrable professional experience.

*core network includes complete network connectivity to our resources on premise and on cloud.

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