Director, Network & Unified Communications 628309

Job Title: Director Network & Unified Communications

Job Code: 36452

Job Location: (On Site) Melbourne FL

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

Job Description:

L3Harris Technologies is seeking a Director Network & Unified Communications to 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.

Essential Functions:

• 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.
• Drive proactive monitoring observability automation and engineering standards to reduce MTTR eliminate technical debt and improve service stability.
• 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.
• Modernize legacy telecom environments and transition to more secure scalable cloud-aligned platforms where appropriate.
• Lead a global team of network and telecom engineers architects and operations specialists; foster a culture of ownership engineering rigor and continuous improvement.
• Manage strategic partners OEMs and MSPs to ensure SLA performance operational transparency and value realization.
• Drive workforce planning talent development and capability building to support a modern software-defined automated network environment.
• Partner with Cybersecurity to ensure compliance with Zero Trust principles STIGs government/regulatory requirements and industry best practices.
• Drive network segmentation identity-based access and integrated threat detection in collaboration with security engineering.
• Ensure proper documentation configuration management architectural governance and audit readiness.

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 lieu of a degree minimum of 19 years of prior related experience.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• 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.
• Relevant certifications: CCNP/CCIE JNCIP/JNCIE CWNP ITIL PMP or equivalent.
• 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 L3Harris values.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities.