Network Manager at Ascendion Inc.

About Ascendion

Ascendion is a full-service digital engineering solutions company. We make and manage software platforms and products that power growth and deliver captivating experiences to consumers and employees. Our engineering, cloud, data, experience design, and talent solution capabilities accelerate transformation and impact for enterprise clients. Headquartered in New Jersey, our workforce of 6,000+ Ascenders delivers solutions from around the globe. Ascendion is built differently to engineer the next.

Ascendion | Engineering to elevate life

We have a culture built on opportunity, inclusion, and a spirit of partnership. Come, change the world with us:

• Build the coolest tech for world’s leading brands


• Solve complex problems – and learn new skills


• Experience the power of transforming digital engineering for Fortune 500 clients


• Master your craft with leading training programs and hands-on experience

Experience a community of change makers!

Join a culture of high-performing innovators with endless ideas and a passion for tech. Our culture is the fabric of our company, and it is what makes us unique and diverse. The way we share ideas, learning, experiences, successes, and joy allows everyone to be their best at Ascendion.

About the Role:

• The Manager – IT Network Infrastructure, direct and lead the teams responsible for the enterprise network, including providing all necessary support, project oversight, and production activities; as well as working with and influencing across various lines of business and technology groups.


• In addition, this role is responsible for developing and maintaining business continuity and disaster recovery plans for the areas of oversight, including routine testing of key assumptions made in both plans, forecasting planning of infrastructure resources, monitoring methodologies and implementation, maintaining active/active datacenter configuration management, and budgeting activities.


• The Manager – IT Network Infrastructure is the subject matter expert for the networking infrastructures.

Job Title: Network Manager

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage, develop, motivate, counsel, train and evaluate staff of four different specialties, validate that work is performed accurately, analyze errors, and resolve problems for all IT Systems personnel.


• Prioritize, assign, and direct all work assignments on systems issues and assigned projects to support day-to-day operations and future implementations objectives.


• Provide leadership and direction through technical subject matter expertise to staff responsible for integration of software and hardware applications.


• Plan for the future use of systems hardware and software, services, technologies, applications, and standards and coordinate the purchase, installation and implementation of systems hardware and software according to department standards and procedures.


• Manage the development of network architecture, design, and ongoing review of system configurations in collaboration with relevant team members.


• Manage the development, documentation and implementation of operating procedures, and systems documentation such as gold builds, best practices, knowledge base, disaster recovery backup and recovery.


• Direct all project management for the large computing projects that cross multiple technologies, platforms, and administrative boundaries.


• Ensure all networking software and hardware versions, maintenance levels, registration and inventory and provide upgrades as necessary to ensure appropriate security and patch levels are maintained.


• Maintain a thorough understanding of state and federal laws and regulations related to compliance including bank secrecy and anti-money laundering laws appropriate to the position.


• Participate in the “Management On-Call” rotation.


• Perform other job-related duties as necessary.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum of seven years’ experience in Information Technology in a senior level administrator role


• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, comparable discipline, or equivalent work experience


• Minimum of three years’ experience in project management and personnel supervision is required.


• Demonstrate strong aptitude to work with business owners for planning of enterprise-wide technologies.


• Demonstrate strong aptitude to work effectively and support others in an environment of continuous change.


• Subject matter expert with Firewalls, Routers, Switches, Voice Gateways, and Fabric Interconnects


• Subject matter expert with common networking technologies, including NAT, PAT, DHCP, RADIUS, RSTP, PVST, STP, VLANs, FTP, TFTP, NAC, EIGRP, RIP, DNS, CIDR, ARP, AAA, TACACS, fiber optics, DWDM, VPN, DMVPN, BGP, ACLs, packet capture/analysis, Netflow, WCCP, VoIP, encryption, network segmentation, tunneling, filtering, and other network technologies.


• Subject matter expert with Data Center equipment, including 7K, 5K, 2K, and B22 platforms, Virtual Device Contexts, Overlay Transport Virtualization, Virtual Port Channels, Fabric Extender Technology, etc.


• Subject matter expert with multi-homed connections to multiple ISPs, redundant network connections, port-channels, GLBP, HSRP, LACP.


• Demonstrate strong knowledge with a broad spectrum of these technologies: Load Balancing, iRules, iApps, Local Traffic Manager, Access Policy Manager, SAML/SSO.

Location: Sacramento, CA

Salary Range: The salary for this position is between $120,000 – $160,000 annually.  Factors which may affect pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

Benefits: The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: [medical insurance] [dental insurance] [vision insurance] [401(k) retirement plan] [long-term disability insurance] [short-term disability insurance] [5 personal days accrued each calendar year. The Paid time off benefits meet the paid sick and safe time laws that pertains to the City/ State] [10-15 days of paid vacation time] [6 paid holidays and 1 floating holiday per calendar year] [Ascendion Learning Management System]

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