Senior Manager, Network Infrastructure

Health Partners is currently hiring a Senior
Manager, Network Infrastructure
. The Senior Manager leads the strategy, design, and delivery of Health Partners' enterprise network environment, ensuring secure, reliable, and high performing data services across the organization. This role shapes the technical direction of network services and drives major network initiatives from planning through execution, while maintaining alignment with the organization's overall technology strategy and longterm objectives.

This position is accountable for the availability, performance, security, and monitoring of the Enterprise Network, ensuring consistent and dependable connectivity for critical business systems and applications. The Enterprise Network is foundational to Health Partners' digital services and overall technology operations.

The Enterprise Network includes, but is not limited to, core switching and routing, wireless infrastructure, data center fabric, application load balancers, firewalls, Internet connectivity, DNS, DHCP, NTP, cloud networking, client remote access, sitetosite VPNs, carrier WAN services, LAN, DDoS protection services, low voltage networking, and cellular connectivity.

In addition, this role provides strategic and operational leadership for the IT Network Services teams and collaborates closely with other IT teams and business partners to support change initiatives, contractual and vendor requirements, and the planning and execution of new hardware and software installations or upgrades. These efforts focus on enhancing functionality, strengthening resilience, and aligning network capabilities with evolving business needs.

Reporting to the Vice President of IT Infrastructure Technology and the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), the Senior Manager leads a team of 16 professionals and oversees an enterprise network spanning 158 locations, including hospitals, clinics, and a distributed remote workforce-helping ensure technology capabilities that support high quality care and organizational excellence.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Networking, Information Technology, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and professional experience.
• Fifteen (15) years of experience in IT network technology and/or network architecture
• Five (5) years of people management experience
• Five (5) years of experience leading midsized to enterprise wide technology projects.
• Strong vendor management and contract negotiation skills
• Budget management and forecasting experience.
• Experience with large scale Cisco Layer2/3 switch and router deployment, (Network Infrastructures) in a multi-site, multi-protocol environment.
• Proficient with a multi-homed Internet deployment; inside and outside cable plant infrastructure and standards, DNS, DHCP, and Network Security Infrastructure Systems
• Expertise with architecture framework development, system design, and architecture deployment.
• Experience with Software Defined Access Methodology - Security & Segmentation, including implementation of both macro (virtual networks) and micro (specific user/device) segmentation to secure IoT and user devices.
• Effective communication skills, written and verbal across hierarchical levels and varying levels of experience or base knowledge with network architecture.
• Proficient knowledge and experience of:
  • Cisco - Network and Security frameworks, Zero Trust
  • Carrier Services - Wave, E-Access, Internet, Point-Point, MOE, DWDM, SONET.
  • Network and Routing protocols.
  • Routing Protocols- EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, and IBGP
  • Misc- DNS, DHCP, IDS/IPS, Web Security Appliances, Load Balancing systems, Firewalls, etc.

• M-F; core business hours
• This position participates in a quarterly oncall management rotation to support operational continuity.
• This position provides after hours oncall coverage and supports change management activities as needed.

• Responsible for the supervision of staff, including having the authority to hire, transfer, lay off, promote, discipline and discharge, train, reward, and review performance of employees. Ensures compliance with organizational and departmental policies…