Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Berkeley Lab operates ESnet, a scientific network supporting demanding scientific data needs. The Routing and Optical Network Engineering Manager leads the team responsible for designing, building, and operating ESnet’s global routing and optical backbone, while contributing to network services strategy and leadership.
Responsibilities
- Provides day-to-day leadership for a team of network engineers supporting ESnet's global routing and optical backbone by setting goals, coaching, fostering career growth, and driving accountability
- Builds a high-performing, collaborative team culture and continuously improves processes and practices
- Ensures network operational excellence, including outage response and proactive risk mitigation
- Oversees network engineering projects by assigning resources, coordinating priorities, and driving execution
- Supports budget planning through procurement forecasting, manages technical vendor relationships, contributes to department strategy and prioritization, and leads hiring to grow the engineering team
Skills
- Overall experience - Typically requires a minimum of 12 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 8 years and a Master's degree; or equivalent experience
- In addition for this managerial role - Typically requires an advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business or related field, plus three (3) years of experience in formal or informal lead/supervisory roles or equivalent experience
- Demonstrated expertise and experience in leading technical staff, with emphasis on wide area network engineering disciplines
- Ability to develop and maintain a high trust, psychologically safe team atmosphere
- Ability to continuously improve the effectiveness and efficiency of a technical engineering team
- Understanding of currently applicable networking engineering/architecture, systems and services design, and implementation and support experience, including both Optical and WAN routing fields
- Knowledge and experience guiding network architecture, engineering, and service strategy development, with the ability to collaborate across multiple stakeholders
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, with demonstrated success collaborating as both a team member and team leader
- Demonstrated experience hiring, training, and mentoring technical staff
- Demonstrated experience developing and implementing network engineering processes and plans, with strong network implementation project management skills
- Excellent operational skills, with a focus on global network infrastructure, continuous improvement, and metric-driven operational performance management
- Work must be performed within the United States
Benefits
- Exceptional health and retirement benefits, including pension or 401K-style plans
- Opportunities to grow in your career through the Tuition Assistance Program
- A culture where you’ll belong - we are invested in our teams!
- Accruing vacation and sick time
- Winter Holiday Shutdown every year
- Parental bonding leave (for both mothers and fathers)
- Pet insurance
- Work may be performed on-site, hybrid, or full-time telework
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