Network Operations Manager

Pacific Life

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Quick summary

Work type
On-site
Location
Charlotte, NC
Salary
$152,370–$186,230 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
8 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live today

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Salary context

Above market

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This role pays more than 68% of similar roles. Most pay $129,500–$186,625 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $169k versus about $158k for comparable roles.

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About Pacific Life

Pacific Life is a life insurance company offering a wide range of life insurance, annuity, and investment products and services to individuals, businesses, and pension plans. Industry: Life Insurance & Annuities

Pacific Life currently has 57 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $145,080–$177,320 across 36 roles with salary data.

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At a glance

TL;DR · Network Operations Manager

The Network Operations Manager joins a small team to provide end-to-end operational delivery of enterprise network services across a global 24x7 infrastructure. This role involves providing strategic and operational leadership over Network Operations, overseeing regional delivery teams, managed service providers, and service performance against agreed SLAs and KPIs. Key responsibilities include managing incident, problem, and change management processes, acting as an escalation authority for major outages, and governing vendor compliance. The successful candidate will utilize technical expertise in protocols such as IPSec, DMVPN, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, VPC, QoS, and 802.1x. Required tools and platforms include Cisco IOS-XE, NXOS, Aruba, F5, Riverbed, Splunk, and SolarWinds. The role solves the business problem of ensuring global network availability, stability, and performance through continuous improvement and automation.

What you'll do

  • Own the delivery of 24x7x365 network operations services across global infrastructure.
  • Ensure network performance aligns with established SLA and KPI targets.
  • Oversee incident, problem, and change management processes across all tiers.
  • Act as the primary escalation authority for major incidents and enterprise outages.
  • Govern the managed service provider model and ensure vendor compliance with staffing and quality targets.
  • Lead vendor performance reviews including weekly service reviews and quarterly business reviews.
  • Oversee network capacity planning and performance optimization initiatives.
  • Drive continuous improvement through automation, tooling enhancement, and documentation standardization.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of experience leading a network operations team in a global enterprise environment.
  • 10+ years of experience in engineering, implementing, and supporting global networks.
  • Advanced technical skills in L2 and L3 protocols including IPSec, DMVPN, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, VPC, QoS, and 802.1x.
  • Familiarity with Cisco IOS-XE and NXOS, Aruba, F5, Riverbed, Cisco (Catalyst, ISR, ASR, Nexus), Splunk, and SolarWinds.
  • Knowledge of Cisco ACI and Aruba ClearPass (preferred).
  • Experience leading outsourced and remote teams (preferred).
  • Cisco CCNP or Cisco CCIE certification (preferred).
  • B.S./MS in Engineering and/or Computer Science or equivalent experience.

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