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 will lead the strategy, delivery, and operational excellence of the company’s 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.

You'll 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

• Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 15 years of prior related experience. Graduate Degree with a minimum of 13 years of prior related experience. In 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 “owner’s mindset” and strong say-do ratio.
• Committed to simplification, standardization, modernization, and engineering excellence.