Manager - IT Infrastructure

As a Manager, IT Infrastructure, you will lead a team of engineers and technical specialists responsible for enterprise network capabilities across Local Area Network (LAN), Wireless, and Identity Services, and Software-Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN).

In this role, you will develop people, build organizational capability, and help deliver secure, reliable, and scalable network services that create value for Koch businesses. You will partner with Architecture, Security, Operations, and business stakeholders to align technology priorities and engineering execution with business outcomes.

You will use your technical knowledge to guide decisions and challenge assumptions, while empowering your team to own solutions, innovate, continuously improve, and focus resources on the highest-value opportunities.

Our Team

The Koch Infrastructure team provides reliable, flexible, and secure solutions that empower business outcomes and profitable transformation. Our global infrastructure team manages all aspects of the enterprise network, hosting solutions, and leveraged datacenters. We provide enterprise infrastructure monitoring for IT components across the enterprise. We are currently focused on the following transformation strategies: talent, proactive management, process optimization and automation, security by design, delivering rock-solid operations, and enhanced observability.

Location

This role can be located in Wichita, KS / Atlanta, GA / Plano, TX and requires an in-office presence with flexibility.

This role is not eligible for VISA sponsorship.

What You Will Do

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of network engineers and technical specialists, creating opportunities to grow technical expertise, leadership capability, and business knowledge
• Build a high-performing culture centered on ownership, accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning
• Develop organizational capability through performance management, career development, talent assessment, knowledge sharing, and succession planning
• Partner with business, Architecture, Security, Operations, and technology leaders to establish priorities and translate strategic objectives into actionable roadmaps and execution plans
• Align resources to high-value opportunities while balancing delivery commitments, modernization, technical debt, operational needs, risk reduction, and long-term value creation
• Provide technical leadership across LAN, Wireless, Identity Services, and SD-WAN, while empowering engineers to own design and implementation decisions
• Drive service reliability and operational excellence through clear objectives, measures, accountability, and effective management of incidents, problems, risks, lifecycle activities, and renewals
• Advance standardization, simplification, automation, modern networking, identity, and security capabilities to improve scalability, efficiency, customer experience, and organizational leverage
• Facilitate decisions and remove barriers across complex initiatives, technical risks, escalations, and stakeholder groups

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience leading and developing teams responsible for enterprise networking technologies, including Cisco LAN, Wireless, Identity Services, and SD-WAN
• Experience with enterprise networking protocols and architectures, including BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, routing design, traffic engineering, and network resiliency
• Experience with SD-WAN technologies such as Cisco SD-WAN (Viptela) and Cisco Meraki SD-WAN
• Experience managing priorities, resources, delivery commitments, and operational reliability within a complex enterprise technology environment
• Experience partnering with and influencing multiple technical, business, and stakeholder groups to deliver business and technology outcomes

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience with network automation, Infrastructure-as-Code practices, or infrastructure modernization
• Experience with cloud-connected networking environments
• Experience leading geographically distributed or global teams
• Experience applying automation, analytics, or AI-enabled operations to improve network reliability, security, troubleshooting, or user experience

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