What are the responsibilities and job description for the Associate Director/Network Engineering position at Pharmaceutical Company?
Associate Director Network Engineering, Pharma Company, East Hanover, 220k plus bonus
HYBRID MODEL, 3 DAYS ON SITE
MUST HAVE 10 PLUS YEARS GLOBAL NETWORK ENGINEERING, SD WAN
MUST HAVE ZSCALER BACKGROUND AND AWS
US CITIZEN OR GREEN CARD ONLY
NO C2C NO CORP TO CORP
HYBRID MODEL, 3 DAYS ON SITE, NO RELOCATION PROVIDED
3 DAYS ON SITE, MUST LIVE IN NJ/NY/PA AREA,
- Lead day?to?day operations of Americas network environment, including SD/WAN architecture, LAN/WAN, WiFi, remote access, Zscaler ZIA/ZPA, and AWS cloud network connectivity (VPCs, Transit Gateway, routing, and segmentation).
- Ensure high availability, reliability, and performance of critical network services supporting research, manufacturing, labs, corporate offices, commercial operations, and cloud workloads.
- Oversee incident, problem, and request management for all network related issues, ensuring rapid remediation and adherence to SLA expectations.
- Implement proactive monitoring, telemetry, and performance optimization using tools such as ThousandEyes, SolarWinds, Zscaler analytics, and CloudWatch.
- Maintain standardized network configurations, ensuring adherence to global network architecture, Zero Trust, segmentation, and firewall policies.
- Lead annual and multi?year regional network budget planning, ensuring forecasting accuracy and financial alignment to strategic priorities.
Manage ongoing operational spend, licensing, carrier contracts, and cloud networking costs to ensure financial stewardship across the Americas region
- Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, or related discipline.
- The candidate must have a minimum of 10 years of experience leading network engineering and operations teams in a complex, multi?site enterprise environment
- Deep expertise in SD?WAN, LAN/WAN, WiFi, firewalls, DNS/DHCP/IPAM, cloud networking, and hybrid network design.
- Requires deep, practical experience with cloud networking in AWS and Azure, including VPC/VNet design, routing, security controls, and hybrid connectivity models.
- Experience with Zscaler ZIA/ZPA, Zero Trust access models, and secure internet egress architectures.
- Strong understanding of network security,