Manager, Networking – Core Networking

🔥 14 hours ago

🤠 Texas – Remote

🤠 Texas – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

👔 Manager

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Forward Air Corporation

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1001 - 5000 employees

🚗 Transport

📦 Logistics

Transport • Logistics

Forward Air Corporation is a leader in the expedited ground transportation industry, providing a comprehensive portfolio of services for over 25 years. They specialize in expedited linehaul (TL & LTL), pick-up and delivery, intermodal drayage, and pool distribution, along with tailored temperature-controlled logistics services. Committed to innovation, Forward Air continuously enhances technologies, systems, and tools to meet unique customer shipping needs across North America, establishing itself as a single resource and partner for supply chain solutions.

📋 Description

• Lead, mentor, develop, and provide technical direction to the Core Networking team • Develop and execute the organization's global network strategy across LAN, WAN, wireless, internet, MPLS, cloud networking, VoIP, and security services • Design, implement, administer, and support enterprise networking technologies across global data center and branch environments • Develop and maintain network standards, policies, architecture frameworks, and technology roadmaps • Ensure secure, resilient, scalable, and highly available network environments through monitoring, maintenance, and capacity planning • Lead network expansion, modernization, and infrastructure improvement initiatives • Lead troubleshooting and resolution of complex incidents involving routing, switching, firewalls, load balancing, DNS, VPN connectivity, and related services • Serve as senior escalation point and incident owner for critical networking and infrastructure issues through resolution and root cause analysis • Partner with Infrastructure, Systems, Telecommunications, Cybersecurity, Facilities Networking, Support teams, business stakeholders, and third-party providers • Evaluate and oversee implementation of emerging networking technologies, hardware, and software platforms • Manage vendor relationships, contract negotiations, service agreements, and partner performance • Maintain technical documentation, architectural diagrams, operational procedures, and configuration standards • Improve efficiency through automation, DevOps practices, and infrastructure-as-code methodologies • Lead infrastructure health assessments and recommend improvements to reliability, performance, scalability, and security • Perform other duties as assigned

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; equivalent combination of education and relevant experience may be considered • Industry certifications such as CCNP, CCIE, Palo Alto, Fortinet, AWS, Azure, or other relevant networking certifications preferred • 7+ years of progressive enterprise networking experience, including leadership or team management responsibilities • Deep understanding of enterprise network architecture including WAN/LAN, MPLS, internet connectivity, network security, cloud networking, and resilient global network design • Advanced expertise with routing and switching technologies, including BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, route maps, ACLs, route redistribution, traffic engineering, VLANs, STP, and PoE • Experience designing, implementing, and supporting modern data center networking technologies, including Spine-Leaf architecture, VXLAN, and EVPN • Experience with VPN technologies including IPsec and multi-vendor environments • Experience implementing and supporting enterprise firewall and network access control solutions, including Cisco Firepower, Palo Alto, Check Point, Fortinet, and Cisco ISE • Strong knowledge of internal, external, and global load-balancing technologies • Ability to lead strategic initiatives, manage competing priorities, influence stakeholders, and communicate with technical and executive audiences • Working knowledge of DNS, DHCP, storage networking (FCoE, iSCSI, NVMe/TCP), disaster recovery, Active Directory, and Windows/Linux server environments preferred • Demonstrated discretion and confidentiality in handling sensitive information • Proficient with Windows PCs, Microsoft O365 (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint), and web conferencing tools (Teams, Zoom, Webex) • Experience with Cisco ISR/ASR, DMVPN, Meraki, Arista, and VeloCloud preferred