Senior Network Assurance Manager

When you join Verizon

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the V Team Life.

What you’ll be doing...

As a Senior Network Assurance Manager, you will lead teams of Managed Service Network and Security Engineers supporting incident management activities in a multi-customer service center in direct support of US Public Sector customers. You will manage a 24x7x365 network and security operations team responsible for ticket management, triage and restoration of issues related to Verizon’s security and network product suite.   

In this role you will...

• Have ownership of continuous review, identification, development, and implementation of improvements into the environment to increase efficiency, quality, and speed of delivered services.

• Communicate and translate functional/operational goals into team/individual objectives, and manage the implementation of policies & procedures.

• Carry out, inspect and validate management administration tasks, such as time management and productivity measurement, personnel development, etc.

• Manage directly and proactively a team of highly technical, distributed engineers.

• Provide support/review and escalation for the direct team.

• Monitor, optimize and report on resource and workforce management.

• Collaborate with service delivery, program management, network operation centers, account team and various internal and external delivery and support teams to manage the service assurance function.

• Manage business expenses and revenue to ensure profitability.

• Ensure protection of customer proprietary network information and Verizon information assets

Where you’ll be working....
In this hybrid role you’ll have a defined work location of Cary, North Carolina that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager
 

What we’re looking for...

You must have...

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.

• Six or more years of relevant work experience.

• Six or more years of experience managing a network or security operations team

• Experience with communications products and networking technologies.

• An active DoD Top Secret clearance or the ability to qualify and maintain a Top Secret clearance

• Be located within commuting distance to the Cary, North Carolina office

• The ability to work outside of normal office hours

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• A technical degree.

• Knowledge of business processes (such as ITIL, Project Management) and the impact thereof on the technical environment.

• Ability to understand technical issue escalations.

• Skills to perform complex work for a functional area and general knowledge of other areas within the organization.

• Experience in coding/scripting

• Experience in a telecommunications or technology company.

• Experience managing a network operations team in a managed services environment

• Ability to think independently using and applying principles, theories, concepts and technologies.

• Strong leadership and team-building capabilities through experience in leading teams or projects to successfully achieve measurable results.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

In this hybrid role, you’ll have a defined work location that includes work from home and a minimum eight assigned office days per month that will be set by your manager.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Equal Employment Opportunity 

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