Network & Unified Communications Director

Overview

Director, Network & Unified Communications $200K - $235K

Onsite Full-Time Employee – NO CONTRACTORS that want a contract position. No C2C, No CTH. No telecommuting, no renting an apartment there, and no weekend travel.

End client. Not a consulting company or implementation partner.

Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off.

A MUST
US Citizen
. Please don’t apply if you are not a US Citizen
Aerospace, Defense, or at least Manufacturing
A clearance is not needed but is preferred. If the applicant does not have one, we will need to work on getting them one once hired.

Lead the strategy, delivery, and operational excellence of the company’s global connectivity and collaboration ecosystem.

This leader will ensure seamless, end-to-end IT connectivity across a complex landscape of providers and technologies, including wide-area and local-area networks, wireless infrastructure, telecommunications, and enterprise unified collaboration platforms.

• Develop and execute the enterprise Network & Unified Communications strategy aligned to the Connectivity pillar and the broader Technology Reinvention strategy.
• Lead modernization initiatives including SD-WAN, NAC, Zero Trust-aligned network segmentation, wireless redesign, VoIP/UC modernization, and optimization of network edge environments.
• Establish a roadmap for reliability, capacity, lifecycle modernization, and secure workload placement across data centers, cloud, and edge sites.
• Oversee the design, deployment, and operations of all global network and telecom services, ensuring high availability, resiliency, and compliance.
• Lead end-to-end service management (incident, problem, change, capacity) in partnership with service delivery, Service Desk, Deskside, and Managed Service Providers.
• Own the enterprise UC strategy, covering voice, VoIP, Video/Telepresence, conferencing tools, contact center capabilities, SIP trunking, and future UCaaS capabilities.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 15 years of prior related experience.
• Graduate Degree with a minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.
• In lieu of a degree, minimum of 19 years of prior related experience.

Preferred Additional

Skills:

• Relevant certifications: CCNP/CCIE, JNCIP/JNCIE, CWNP, ITIL, PMP, or equivalent.
• Deep expertise in enterprise networking (LAN/WAN, SD-WAN, VPN, routing/switching, Wi-Fi, DNS/DHCP/IPAM).
• Strong experience with unified communications, VoIP, SIP, telephony, video conferencing, and collaboration technologies.
• Proven track record driving large-scale network modernization, cloud connectivity, and secure architecture transformations.
• Experience operating within highly regulated environments (DoD, aerospace/defense, government contractors, or similar).
• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence, manage MSPs, build high-performance teams, and deliver measurable operational outcomes.
• Experience implementing Zero Trust-aligned core network services.
• Background integrating cloud connectivity (AWS, Azure, GCP) and software-defined technologies.
• Experience delivering large-scale site upgrades, network refresh programs, or global telecom modernization initiatives.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to translate technical requirements into operational and financial outcomes.
• Strategic thinker with an “owner’s mindset” and strong say-do ratio.
• Committed to simplification, standardization, modernization, and engineering excellence.
• Able to influence across diverse business units, functions, and technology domains.
• Empowers teams, builds trust, promotes accountability, and models L3
  
  Harris values.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities.