Associate Director of Network Engineering

Associate Director of Network Engineering

Location: New Haven, CT / Hybrid

Type: Direct Hire / Full-Time

Overview:

Hands-on technical leadership role responsible for enterprise network infrastructure, team management, network design, security, troubleshooting, and optimization.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor a team of network engineers and serve as escalation point for complex issues.
• Design, configure, and maintain LAN/WAN, SD-WAN, firewalls, VPNs, wireless, and UCaaS/CCaaS environments.
• Manage network security, monitoring, performance, hardware lifecycle, and upgrades.
• Support hybrid cloud networking across Azure/AWS/Google Cloud.
• Lead network projects including office expansions, data center migrations, and cloud integrations.
• Manage vendors and maintain network documentation and diagrams.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, application, server, and cybersecurity teams.

Requirements:

• 12+ years of network engineering experience with 3–5 years in leadership.
• Strong Cisco, Fortinet, Aruba, Meraki, Arista, and cloud networking experience.
• Expertise in BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, VLANs, STP, QoS, VPNs, firewalls, and Zero Trust.
• Experience with network automation/monitoring tools and cloud-based UCaaS/CCaaS.
• BS/BA in IT, Computer Science, or related field, or equivalent experience.