Manager, Network & Cybersecurity Engineering

JOB SUMMARY

This position leads the combined Network and Cybersecurity Engineering teams and serves as both a hands-on senior engineer and working manager. The role is responsible for providing day-to-day technical and operational leadership while remaining directly involved in complex engineering work across enterprise networking and cybersecurity domains.

The Manager of Network & Cybersecurity Engineering is responsible for the design, configuration, implementation, maintenance, monitoring, and continual improvement of the organization’s enterprise network and cybersecurity platforms. This includes technical leadership for network infrastructure, perimeter security, network security, endpoint security, application security, data security, threat prevention, security monitoring, and incident response.

This role functions as the organization’s lead network engineer and primary cybersecurity engineering leader. The position is expected to establish technical standards, guide platform strategy, oversee engineering and operational readiness, support incident response efforts, evaluate new technologies, assist with budgeting and lifecycle planning, and ensure alignment between infrastructure, security, and organizational goals.

While the role includes supervisory responsibilities, it is intentionally structured to remain highly hands-on, particularly as the network and cybersecurity teams continue to integrate and mature.

Salary Range: $140,000-$150,000 annually

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Customer Commitment – Demonstrates responsiveness and high-quality service.
• Professionalism & Integrity – Upholds ethical, fair, and trustworthy behavior.
• Organizational Excellence – Commits to continuous improvement and operational quality.
• Success Through Teamwork – Collaborates effectively and fosters open communication.

JOB SPECIFIC COMPETENCIES

• Advanced technical knowledge of enterprise network architecture and cybersecurity platforms.
• Strong hands-on engineering capability across routing, switching, firewalls, segmentation, secure access, monitoring, and response technologies.
• Demonstrated leadership in cybersecurity practices including incident response, security standards, platform strategy, and risk reduction.
• Strong skills in leadership, mentorship, and team development.
• Excellent communication, analytical, and troubleshooting capabilities.
• Experience developing technical standards, architecture documentation, procedures, and roadmaps.
• Proficiency in evaluating, adopting, and implementing infrastructure and security technologies.
• Strong organizational, prioritization, and project management abilities.
• Skilled in conflict resolution, stakeholder engagement, and cross-functional collaboration.

REPRESENTATIVE DUTIES

Note: The following duties are illustrative and not exhaustive. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment to the position.

Team Leadership & Collaboration

• Provide day-to-day leadership, guidance, and mentorship to network and cybersecurity engineers.
• Supervise team member performance, development, skill progression, and work prioritization.
• Support staffing, recruiting, onboarding, retention, and succession planning efforts.
• Build and maintain a unified culture across the combined network and cybersecurity teams.
• Collaborate with IT leadership, operational directors, business stakeholders, and project teams to align priorities and resources.
• Serve as the primary technical escalation point for complex network and cybersecurity issues.

Hands-On Engineering Responsibilities

• Function as the organization’s lead engineer for enterprise network infrastructure and related security technologies.
• Configure, troubleshoot, optimize, and maintain Cisco switches, routers, wireless, VPN, and related network technologies.
• Administer, configure, troubleshoot, and support Check Point firewalls and related perimeter security platforms.
• Lead complex troubleshooting efforts involving infrastructure, connectivity, segmentation, firewall policy, secure remote access, and security enforcement layers.
• Perform and support upgrades, migrations, lifecycle replacements, patching, and performance optimization across network and security platforms.
• Maintain direct involvement in technical design, implementation, root-cause analysis, and production support.

Cybersecurity Leadership & Operations

• Serve as the senior technical leader for cybersecurity engineering, security operations coordination and incident response.
• Lead or coordinate technical incident response activities for cybersecurity and network-related events, including containment, eradication, recovery, and post-incident improvement.
• Develop, maintain, and improve cybersecurity engineering standards, response procedures, and technical playbooks.
• Evaluate, recommend, implement, and optimize technologies that strengthen prevention, visibility, monitoring, and response capabilities.
• Partner with internal teams and external providers to support vulnerability management, logging, alerting, investigation, and remediation efforts.
• Maintain awareness of emerging threats, attack techniques, defensive controls, and relevant technologies.

Network & Security Architecture

• Design and implement scalable, resilient, and secure infrastructure solutions.
• Define and maintain architecture standards, engineering baselines, hardening standards, and best practices.
• Ensure layered security controls are incorporated across network, endpoint, application, identity, and data environments.
• Evaluate new products, platforms, and services for business value, risk reduction, and technical fit.
• Recommend strategic improvements in enterprise architecture, security posture, redundancy, and resilience.

Operations, Maintenance & Compliance

• Monitor network and security platform performance, capacity, health, and reliability.
• Maintain operational readiness through patching, updates, backups, lifecycle planning, and configuration management.
• Enforce security policies, technical standards, and regulatory or compliance requirements.
• Ensure systems and platforms are maintained in a secure, supported, and auditable manner.
• Support vulnerability remediation and operational follow-through on identified infrastructure and security risks.

Strategic Planning & Project Management

• Assist with long-term infrastructure and cybersecurity strategy, planning, and roadmap development

• Prepare, support, and track budgets for network and security initiatives, maintenance, renewals, and capital planning.
• Lead or participate in technical projects from planning through implementation and operational transition.
• Develop and maintain documentation related to architecture, standards, operational procedures, configurations, and recovery processes.
• Identify opportunities for modernization, risk reduction, service improvement, and operational efficiency.

Vendor & Stakeholder Management

• Work with vendors and partners to evaluate solutions, procure equipment and services, and resolve technical issues.
• Oversee support relationships, maintenance agreements, renewals, and service expectations.
• Coordinate with service providers, security partners, and other third parties to support operational and strategic objectives.
• Ensure vendor-delivered solutions align with technical standards, security requirements, and business needs.

This role requires a high-performing engineering leader who is ready to work shoulder-to-shoulder with both network and Cybersecurity teams while driving innovation, stability, and security across the enterprise infrastructure.

MINIMUM EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Network Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related field; or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• 7+ years of progressively responsible hands-on experience in enterprise network engineering and/or cybersecurity engineering.
• Significant experience working in a complex enterprise environment.
• Strong hands-on experience with Cisco network infrastructure, including switches, routers, routing, switching, and network troubleshooting.
• Strong hands-on experience with Check Point firewalls, including configuration, troubleshooting, policy management, and maintenance.
• Demonstrated experience leading or coordinating complex technical work across both infrastructure and security domains.
• Experience in team leadership, supervision, or mentorship, whether formal or informal.
• Demonstrated experience supporting or leading cybersecurity functions such as incident response, security engineering, monitoring, prevention, or security platform administration.

CERTIFICATION, LICENSE AND SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

• Cisco CCNP certification strongly preferred; equivalent advanced enterprise network engineering experience may be considered.
• Additional Cisco certifications such as CCIE are a plus.
• CISSP or equivalent cybersecurity certification is preferred.
• Candidates may be required to complete technical assessments.
• Candidates may be required to provide certification verification where applicable.

Physical Demands

The work is light to medium and requires exerting up to fifty (50) pounds of force occasionally and/or one (1) to ten (10) pounds of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body; may also require balancing, manual dexterity, hearing, mental acuity, repetitive motion, speaking, talking, and visual acuity.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

Work is performed in a dynamic environment that requires sensitivity and responsiveness to changes in organizational goals, priorities, risks, and operational needs. The role may require participation in after-hours support, incident response, maintenance windows, and critical outage response.

JOB CLASS

Unclassified – At-will Employees who serve at the pleasure of the Clerk and do not have appeal rights should they be demoted, suspended, or terminated.

CAREER PATH

• Senior Manager, IT Infrastructure

• Director, IT Infrastructure

• Senior Director, IT Infrastructure

• Chief Information Officer

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the essential job functions satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary job functions described herein. Since every duty associated with this position may not be described herein, employees may be required to perform duties not specifically spelled out in the job description, but which may be reasonably considered to be incidental in the performing of their duties just as though they were actually written out in this job description.