Network Manager

About the role

The company is hiring a Network Manager to design, run and improve its enterprise network across offices, data centres and cloud. The role leads the network team and ensures fast, reliable and scalable connectivity for the business.

Key responsibilities

• Lead, mentor and manage network engineers and administrators.
• Own the network architecture, strategy and roadmap for LAN, WAN, SD-WAN, Wi-Fi and data centre networking.
• Ensure network availability, performance and capacity through proactive monitoring, tuning and upgrades.
• Manage routers, switches, wireless, load balancers, DNS, DHCP and IP address management.
• Oversee connectivity to cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and hybrid or multi-site environments.
• Lead network projects such as office rollouts, migrations, refresh cycles and new site connectivity.
• Manage ISPs, carriers and hardware vendors, including contracts, SLAs and escalations.
• Work with the security team on firewall, segmentation and access policies.
• Lead incident response and root-cause analysis for network outages.
• Maintain network documentation, diagrams, standards and change management (ITIL-aligned).
• Manage the network budget and report on KPIs (uptime, latency, incident trends) to leadership.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Telecommunications or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years in network engineering or administration, including 3+ years in a leadership role.
• Strong vendor, project and budget management skills.
• Excellent communication in English; additional languages are a plus.

Required skills

• Expert knowledge of TCP/IP, routing and switching protocols (BGP, OSPF, VLANs, STP, MPLS)
• Hands-on experience with Cisco, Juniper, Aruba, Fortinet or similar enterprise equipment
• SD-WAN, wireless design and network monitoring tools (SolarWinds, PRTG, Zabbix or similar)
• Cloud networking and hybrid connectivity
• Nice to have: CCNP/CCIE, JNCIP, ITIL, AWS Advanced Networking or Azure Network Engineer certifications; Python, Ansible and IaC; multi-country or high-availability environments

What we offer

• Competitive salary and benefits
• A leadership role owning a business-critical platform
• Training, certification and career growth support