Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Oportun is a mission-driven financial services company that provides responsible credit, savings, and budgeting capabilities to help members build a better financial future. The Senior Manager, Networking will lead and develop a networking engineering team while designing and modernizing enterprise networking capabilities across on-premises, cloud, and secure-access environments. The role owns the networking roadmap and drives architecture, automation, resiliency, security, and cross-functional technical delivery.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a high-performing networking engineering team focused on architecture, solution design, implementation, automation, and modernization of Oportun’s enterprise network
- Own the technical roadmap for enterprise networking, translating business and technology strategy into scalable architectures, engineering priorities, and multi-quarter initiatives
- Architect and deliver solutions across routing, switching, wireless, VPN, firewalls, load balancing, SD-WAN, secure access, cloud networking, and hybrid connectivity
- Establish reference architectures, engineering standards, reusable design patterns, and guardrails that improve consistency, resiliency, security, and speed of delivery
- Drive network automation and infrastructure-as-code practices using technologies such as Python, Ansible, Terraform, PowerShell, APIs, and CI/CD workflows
- Partner with Information Security, Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure, End User Computing, application teams, and business stakeholders to engineer solutions for new capabilities, migrations, office/site changes, cloud adoption, and security initiatives
- Lead technical design reviews, proof-of-concepts, vendor evaluations, capacity planning, and complex troubleshooting; provide engineering direction for high-impact incidents when deep network expertise is required
- Modernize Oportun’s networking platforms and services across technologies such as Cisco/Juniper, Aruba/Mist, Palo Alto, Zscaler, Aviatrix, Azure, and AWS, balancing technical debt reduction with new capability delivery
- Build observability into network solutions by defining telemetry, performance measures, health signals, and actionable monitoring that enable proactive engineering and rapid fault isolation
- Own engineering lifecycle practices including architecture documentation, design specifications, implementation plans, testing, validation, change readiness, and knowledge transfer to teams responsible for ongoing service support
- Manage strategic vendor and service-provider relationships, including technology selection, technical performance, roadmap alignment, commercial planning, and lifecycle decisions
- Lead hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development while creating a culture of technical ownership, experimentation, engineering rigor, and continuous improvement
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Minimum 8 years of progressively responsible network engineering experience, including designing and delivering complex enterprise network solutions
- Demonstrated people leadership experience leading professional technical teams and developing senior-level engineers; experience leading managers and/or technical leads is strongly valued
- Deep enterprise networking expertise across routing, switching, wireless, VPN, firewalls, load balancing, secure access, and hybrid/cloud networking
- Hands-on architecture and engineering experience with technologies such as Cisco/Juniper, Aruba/Mist, Palo Alto, Zscaler, Aviatrix, Azure, and AWS
- Experience translating business and security requirements into network architectures, detailed designs, implementation approaches, and technical roadmaps
- Experience driving network automation, infrastructure as code, or API-based engineering using tools such as Python, Ansible, Terraform, PowerShell, or equivalent technologies
- Strong experience with network resiliency, observability, capacity planning, performance engineering, and complex problem solving
- Strong cross-functional leadership and communication skills, with the ability to influence architecture and engineering decisions across technical teams
- CCNP/CCIE, Aruba, PCNSE, Zscaler, Aviatrix, cloud networking, or similar advanced technical certifications
- Experience designing or modernizing SD-WAN, Zero Trust Network Access, SASE/SSE, cloud connectivity, or multi-cloud networking solutions
- Experience with observability platforms such as ThousandEyes, LogicMonitor, SolarWinds, or similar tools
- Experience implementing engineering workflows using Git, CI/CD, automated testing, configuration validation, or policy-as-code practices
- Experience leading large-scale network transformation, migration, or platform modernization programs
- Experience working in regulated industries
Benefits
- A diverse, equitable and inclusive culture where employees feel a sense of belonging and are encouraged to share their perspectives.
- Employee resource groups.
- Remote work arrangement.
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