Senior Manager-Network Engineer

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What you’ll be doing...

As the Senior Manager, you will lead a team responsible for the centralized support team for Global Network Management. Global Network Management is responsible for the management of all Verizon's networks (wireless, wireline, core). The centralize support team creates automations, AI and fault management to give network engineers the ability to perform their tasks more efficiently and effectively, and at far greater scale, .

• Leading the effort to transform the way we do operations by leveraging automation tools to develop scalable workflows.

• Understanding new technology development and aligned team member training and development.

• Setting individual performance objectives and providing performance reviews.

• Understanding automation platform architecture and align team’s activities accordingly.

• Working with stakeholders to ensure that requirements are met and projects are successful.

• Monitoring and measuring team performance – provide reporting to executive level.

• Automation Orchestration: Drive the development of tools for auto-triage, auto-mitigation, and auto-notification to achieve aggressive orchestration and MTTR reduction targets.

• Network Intelligence: Leverage telemetry data and AI/ML models to provide authoritative network visibility and smarter incident response.

• Operational Excellence: Enforce the "Prepare, Pause, and Confirm" methodology to ensure all automation activities maintain the highest safety and reliability standards.

What we’re looking for...
You’re a technical expert with experience managing multiple medium to large projects at once. You know how to manage a project team, creating clarity, removing barriers, and using creativity to make decisions that impact projects and staff members. Cross-functional work is ideal for you, given your collaborative nature and ability to work with a variety of stakeholders across the organization.

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or six or more years of work experience.

• Six or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training

• Strong leadership skills with the ability to set clear strategic priorities in a high-flux environment.

• Exceptional communication skills for interfacing with global senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.

• Ability to work US hours

Even better if you have one or more of the following:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Sciences, Software Engineering, or Electrical Engineering.
Master’s degree in Engineering, Telecommunications, or Technology-related field.
Strong Networking background.
Ability to lead and drive projects to completion and balance multiple work assignments simultaneously.
Ability to lead technical discussions with a group of individuals in the industry with varying technical positions.
Technical project management experience and interpersonal skills.
Experience with network automation tools.
Understanding of Agile Framework.
Proven experience leading technical teams in automation development and software integration.
Advanced knowledge of Verizon’s network architecture or internal automation platforms (e.g., ATOM, AP, SevOne) or network systems.

• Experience with AI/ML integration for predictive network health and automated Root Cause Analysis (RCA).

Where you’ll be working

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Equal Employment Opportunity

Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, gender, disability or any other legally protected characteristics.