Senior Director of Network Engineering

About the Job:

We are seeking an experienced and visionary Senior Director of Network Engineering to lead our core networking team. This role involves overseeing the design, implementation, and optimization of Gartner's core networking infrastructure, ensuring seamless connectivity and reliability for our global operations. The ideal candidate will possess a deep technical background, strong leadership skills, and the ability to drive innovative solutions in a fast-paced environment.

What You’ll Do:

• Strategic Leadership: Define and implement the strategic technical direction for Gartner’s network and internal data center footprint, including in-office infrastructure across global locations. Develop and execute a comprehensive core networking strategy that aligns with Gartner’s business objectives and future growth plans.
• Infrastructure Management: Oversee 24x7x365 infrastructure, network operations, and database management, ensuring availability, performance, and security.
• Team Leadership: Direct and mentor a diverse team of 15 network, data center, and database engineers across the USA, EMEA, and Asia, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Network Design & Implementation: Oversee the architecture, design, and deployment of core networking solutions, including routing, switching, and high availability.
• Performance Optimization: Monitor and analyze network and data center metrics, implementing enhancements to ensure optimal system efficiency and stability.
• Security & Compliance: Establish and enforce network security protocols, ensuring compliance with industry standards and best practices to protect Gartner’s data and infrastructure.
• Vendor Management: Manage relationships with technology vendors and service providers, evaluating and selecting third-party solutions that support networking objectives.
• Budget Management: Develop and oversee a $3.M CapEx budget for infrastructure refresh, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities and fiscal responsibility.
• Cost Control: Identify and implement cost-saving initiatives, including the consolidation of data centers and the establishment of a unified cloud/on-prem operations team.
• Reliability Improvement: Develop and enforce change control processes and standardization initiatives to significantly reduce system outages and enhance overall reliability.
• Operational Excellence: Schedule and execute data backups for both cloud and on-premises environments, ensuring robust data retention.
• Cybersecurity Enhancement: Elevate enterprise risk management by deploying advanced network and data protection solutions and ransomware backup strategies to safeguard against external threats.
• Resource Management: Implement metrics-based reporting structures using observability tools to monitor infrastructure and network health and prioritize maintenance activities.
• Collaboration Across Teams: Partner with IT and engineering teams to integrate core networking solutions with cloud services, data centers, and other technology initiatives.
• Innovation & Technology Adoption: Stay updated on emerging technologies and trends in networking, evaluating potential applications for Gartner’s infrastructure and services.

What You Need:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field; Master’s degree preferred.
• 12+ years of experience in networking engineering, with at least 5 years in a leadership role focused on core networking.
• Proven expertise in core networking technologies, including LAN, WAN, MPLS, BGP, OSPF, and network security protocols.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking and hybrid cloud architectures (AWS, Azure, etc.).
• Deep understanding of data center and network operations, including physical and virtual environments.
• Experience in managing enterprise databases both on-premises and in AWS and Azure clouds.
• Strong leadership, communication, and project management skills.
• In-depth knowledge of network technologies and security practices.
• Experience with cloud migration strategies and cloud management tools.
• Expertise in VMware or similar virtualization technologies for server and storage management.
• Ability to optimize virtual environments for performance and cost-effectiveness.
• Knowledge of data backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning.
• Familiarity with backup technologies and strategies for both on-premises and cloud environments.
• Understanding cybersecurity principles, risk management, and compliance frameworks.
• Experience deploying data protection solutions, including ransomware backup strategies.
• Proficiency in analytics tools for monitoring infrastructure health and performance.
• Capability to leverage data-driven insights for decision-making and operational improvements.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., CCIE, CCNP, CISSP) are highly desirable.

What you’ll receive:

• Competitive compensation.
• Limitless growth and learning opportunities.
• A collaborative and positive culture - join a diverse team of professionals that are as smart and driven as you.
• A chance to make an impact – your work will contribute directly to our strategy.
• Enjoy the flexibility of working from home and the energy of collaborating with peers in our dynamic offices.
• 20+ PTO days plus holidays and floating holidays in your first year.
• Extensive medical, dental insurance and vision plan.
• 401K with corporate match, immediate vesting.
• Health-and-wellness-related allowance programs.
• Parental leave.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Gartner Gives Charity Match.

        And much more!

 

What are we:

• Action Oriented - Deliver fast, get great results. We embrace the vision, roadmap to success and the action it takes to make it happen. 
• Intellectually Curious - Seek to learn, love to teach. We’re humble and embrace respectful, radical candor with a mindset of ongoing professional and personal development.
• Collaborative - One team, shared mission. We welcome feedback and understand the value of working together to accomplish more than what is possible individually.

 

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Who are we? 

At Gartner, Inc. (NYSE:IT), we guide the leaders who shape the world.

Our mission relies on expert analysis and bold ideas to deliver actionable, objective insight, helping enterprise leaders and their teams succeed with their mission-critical priorities.

Since our founding in 1979, we’ve grown to more than 21,000 associates globally who support ~14,000 client enterprises in ~90 countries and territories. We do important, interesting and substantive work that matters. That’s why we hire associates with the intellectual curiosity, energy and drive to want to make a difference. The bar is unapologetically high. So is the impact you can have here.

What makes Gartner a great place to work? 

Our sustained success creates limitless opportunities for you to grow professionally and flourish personally. We have a vast, virtually untapped market potential ahead of us, providing you with an exciting trajectory long into the future. How far you go is driven by your passion and performance.

We hire remarkable people who collaborate and win as a team. Together, our singular, unifying goal is to deliver results for our clients.

Our teams are inclusive and composed of individuals from different geographies, cultures, religions, ethnicities, races, genders, sexual orientations, abilities and generations.

We invest in great leaders who bring out the best in you and the company, enabling us to multiply our impact and results. This is why, year after year, we are recognized worldwide as a great place to work.

What do we offer? 

Gartner offers world-class benefits, highly competitive compensation and disproportionate rewards for top performers. 

In our hybrid work environment, we provide the flexibility and support for you to thrive — working virtually when it's productive to do so and getting together with colleagues in a vibrant community that is purposeful, engaging and inspiring.

Ready to grow your career with Gartner? Join us.

Gartner believes in fair and equitable pay. A reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this role is 134,000 USD - 185,000 USD. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range, or be above or below the range, based on factors including, but not limited to, education, training, experience, professional achievement, business need, and location. In addition to base salary, employees will participate in either an annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance, or a role-based, uncapped sales incentive plan. Our talent acquisition team will provide the specific opportunity on our bonus or incentive programs to eligible candidates. We also offer market leading benefit programs including generous PTO, a 401k match up to $7,200 per year, the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount, and more.

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