Senior Manager, DDI Platform

Responsibilities

• Hires, evaluates, and supervises crew. Provides guidance and training as necessary to develop crew. Sets performance standards.
• Oversees the network team providing network services including designing, installing, configuring, and integrating new network technologies.
• Manages the resolution of complex issues elevated from Support Center and Technical Services.
• Oversees the implementation and maintenance of policies and procedures, system monitoring, and troubleshooting activities.
• Participates in the development of short and long term department goals.
• Ensures compliance with IT and Information Security policies within the team.
• Manages the team responsible for enterprise DDI architectures including authoritative, recursive, and hybrid DNS models.
• Provides tactical and strategic leadership for global traffic management (GTM) solutions.
• Enforces standards for DNS, DHCP, and IP address management (DDI) resiliency.
• Leads the integration of DDI platforms with automation and orchestration tools.

• Minimum of ten years related work experience
• Network experience preferred
• Undergraduate degree in a related field or equivalent combination of training and experience
• Graduate degree preferred
• Strong working knowledge of DNS architecture, DDI services (DNS, DHCP, IPAM), and enterprise DNS operations.
• Management experience governing network platforms for enterprise scale deployments
• Experience maintaining global traffic management solutions, including Akamai GTM, and their interaction with enterprise DNS ecosystems
• Knowledge of DNS automation, API driven provisioning, and lifecycle management in large scale environments, including understanding of IaC pipelines