Senior Manager, Networking

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $127.8k - $204.4k / year

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Oportun

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2006

💼 Consulting

🛡️ Insurance

💳 Fintech

Consulting • Insurance • Fintech

Oportun is a financial technology company that specializes in providing affordable personal loans and savings solutions. They are recognized as Bankrate's #1 app for saving money in 2024. Oportun offers personal loans ranging from $300 to $10,000 for various financial needs such as bills, repairs, and deposits, with quick funding and affordable payments. The company provides a unique app that helps users manage their loans and saves money intelligently. Oportun also focuses on financial education and offers tools like loan calculators and prequalification services, which do not impact credit scores. Although Oportun is not a bank, they ensure deposits are FDIC insured through partner banks.

📋 Description

• Lead and develop a high-performing networking engineering team focused on architecture, solution design, implementation, automation, and modernization. • Own the technical roadmap for enterprise networking and translate 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. • Drive network automation and infrastructure-as-code practices using Python, Ansible, Terraform, PowerShell, APIs, and CI/CD workflows. • Partner with Information Security, Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure, End User Computing, application teams, and business stakeholders on new capabilities, migrations, site changes, cloud adoption, and security initiatives. • Lead technical design reviews, proof-of-concepts, vendor evaluations, capacity planning, and complex troubleshooting. • Modernize networking platforms across Cisco/Juniper, Aruba/Mist, Palo Alto, Zscaler, Aviatrix, Azure, and AWS. • Build network observability through telemetry, performance measures, health signals, and actionable monitoring. • Own architecture documentation, design specifications, implementation plans, testing, validation, change readiness, and knowledge transfer. • 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.

🎯 Requirements

• 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 complex enterprise network solutions • People leadership experience leading technical teams and developing senior-level engineers • Deep expertise in routing, switching, wireless, VPN, firewalls, load balancing, secure access, and hybrid/cloud networking • Hands-on architecture and engineering experience with 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 with network automation, infrastructure as code, or API-based engineering using Python, Ansible, Terraform, PowerShell, or equivalent • Experience with network resiliency, observability, capacity planning, performance engineering, and complex problem solving • Strong cross-functional leadership and communication skills • Advanced technical certifications such as CCNP/CCIE, Aruba, PCNSE, Zscaler, or Aviatrix are preferred • Experience with SD-WAN, Zero Trust Network Access, SASE/SSE, cloud connectivity, or multi-cloud networking is preferred • Experience with observability platforms, Git, CI/CD, automated testing, configuration validation, or policy-as-code is preferred • Experience leading large-scale network transformation, migration, or platform modernization programs is preferred • Experience working in regulated industries is preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture • Employee resource groups • Base salary compensation of $127,800–$204,400 (excluding other compensation elements and benefits) • Equal opportunity employment