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Koch Industries

Private conglomerate in energy and materials

Manager – IT Infrastructure

Network Engineering & AdministrationConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • Experience leading and developing teams responsible for enterprise networking technologies, including Cisco Local Area Network (LAN), Wireless, Identity Services, and Software-Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN).
  • Experience with enterprise networking protocols and architectures, including Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), routing design, traffic engineering, and network resiliency.
  • Experience with SD-WAN technologies such as Cisco SD-WAN (Viptela) and Cisco Meraki SD-WAN.
  • Experience managing priorities, resources, delivery commitments, and operational reliability within a complex enterprise technology environment.
  • Experience partnering with and influencing multiple technical, business, and stakeholder groups to deliver business and technology outcomes.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, coach, and develop a team of network engineers and technical specialists, creating opportunities to grow technical expertise, leadership capability, and business knowledge.
  • Build a high-performing culture centered on ownership, accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning.
  • Develop organizational capability through performance management, career development, talent assessment, knowledge sharing, and succession planning.
  • Partner with business, Architecture, Security, Operations, and technology leaders to establish priorities and translate strategic objectives into actionable roadmaps and execution plans.
  • Align resources to high-value opportunities while balancing delivery commitments, modernization, technical debt, operational needs, risk reduction, and long-term value creation.
  • Provide technical leadership across LAN, Wireless, Identity Services, and SD-WAN, while empowering engineers to own design and implementation decisions.
  • Drive service reliability and operational excellence through clear objectives, measures, accountability, and effective management of incidents, problems, risks, lifecycle activities, and renewals.
  • Advance standardization, simplification, automation, modern networking, identity, and security capabilities to improve scalability, efficiency, customer experience, and organizational leverage.
  • Facilitate decisions and remove barriers across complex initiatives, technical risks, escalations, and stakeholder groups.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with network automation, Infrastructure-as-Code practices, or infrastructure modernization.
  • Experience with cloud-connected networking environments.
  • Experience leading geographically distributed or global teams.
  • Experience applying automation, analytics, or AI-enabled operations to improve network reliability, security, troubleshooting, or user experience.

About the Company

Koch Industries

Private conglomerate in energy and materials

Koch Industries is a large, private, diversified conglomerate that operates in energy, chemical processing, and manufacturing. It started from an innovation that turned heavy crude oil into gasoline and grew through long‑term investments rather than short‑term market moves. The company generates value by refining fuels and producing chemical products, and it operates Georgia-Pacific, a major maker of paper and building products. Its business model relies on reinvesting most earnings back into the company to fund steady, long‑term growth rather than paying out frequent dividends or seeking quick profits. Koch differentiates itself from many competitors by staying privately owned, which reduces pressure from public markets and enables longer‑range planning. The company’s goal is to build scale and durability across its holdings by sustainable, multi‑decade growth rather than rapid, episodic gains.

Company size
5,001-10,000
Company stage
Growth Equity (Non-Venture Capital)
Total funding
$985.2M
Headquarters
Wichita, KS
Founded
1940

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