Network Unified Communications- Director

To be considered all candidates must be willing to work onsite at our clients Melbourne Florida location.

For candidates not local to the area my client can provide relocation asssistance.

A full benefit package including health paid parental leave $$$ adoption assistance NO CAP PTO and even pet insurance awaits the chosen candidate. This position will have a 9/80 work schedule (off every other Friday).

The chosen candidate willlead the strategy delivery and operational excellence of the companys global connectivity and collaboration ecosystem. They will lead modernization initiatives including SD-WAN NAC Zero Trust-aligned network segmentation wireless redesign VoIP/UC modernization and optimization of network edge environments.

Youll be doing things like this:

• 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.

Qualifications

• Bachelors 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.

Ideally you will have many of the following:

• 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 owners mindset and strong say-do ratio.
• Committed to simplification standardization modernization and engineering excellence.

Required Experience:

Director