Enterprise Network Manager

Enterprise Network Manager
Job Description
Overview
CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces. Included in the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world's real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives.
We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 35 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable offerings to our customers. We've continually refined, transformed, and perfected our approach to our business, creating a language that has become standard in our industry, for our customers, and even our competitors. We continue that effort today and are always working to improve and drive innovation. This is how we deliver for our customers, our employees, and investors. By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate.
As the Enterprise Networking Manager, you will be responsible for designing, managing, and maintaining our large US & European network infrastructure. The manager will take full ownership of office networking (LAN, WAN, Wi-Fi, SD-WAN, build-outs etc) in 65 offices and will work to build & staff the Network Monitoring and Observability team. This role requires hands-on, project and people management skills.
This position is in Washington, DC and offers a hybrid schedule of 3 days onsite, 2 days remote.
Responsibilities
• Build the Network Monitoring and Observability team
• Lead & manage 2 teams of network engineers and tech leaders
• Act as a player-coach, who can mentor & coach team members into highly productive team players
• Drive continuous improvement by focusing on engineering excellence
• Translate business requirements into technical requirements, develop project plan and work schedules for use by network scrum teams
• Develop and maintain an in-depth working knowledge of the CoStar Group network infrastructure
• Create and maintain detailed documentation related to the processes, services, locations and capabilities related to our network
• Adopt an owner-operator mindset and demonstrate full technical and managerial ownership
Basic Qualifications
• Bachelor's Degree required from an accredited, not for profit university or college.
• A track record of commitment to prior employers
• 5+ years in a Technical Management role
• 10+ years hands-on networking experience including managing large networks and diagnosing complex issues
• Demonstrated experience using and improving monitoring & analytics tools
• Network device automation & configuration management
• Experience leading technical teams, working through complex requirements and offering relevant, timely technical solutions
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; Must be able to communicate at a level appropriate to the audience (direct reports, peers and senior management)
• Excellent team building, negotiation and consensus building abilities
Preferred Qualifications and Skills
• One or more relevant certifications such as CCNA, CCNP, CCIE, CCSA, CCSE, PCNSE, PCSNA, Scrum Master (CSM), etc.
• Should have a good understanding of routing protocols BGP, EBGP, IBGP
• Supporting enterprise Wi-Fi over LAN and WAN environments (preferably Aruba)
• Supporting large deployments of Palo Alto firewalls and SD-WAN devices
• Participate in new office build designs and project management
• Demonstrated experience using & improving various monitoring tools such as PRTG, Solarwinds, LogicMonitor, Zabbix, Datadog, ManageEngine, Nagios, etc
• Proficiency using diagnostic tools such as Splunk, Azure Log Analytics, syslog, Wireshark, and various CLI tools such as netstat, netcat, curl, wget, grep, sed, etc
• Working in environments with >3,000 end points (VMs, workstations, etc)
• Config management tools like Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Terraform
• Work with various networking technologies including but not limited to:
o Firewalls -Palo Alto, CheckPoint, AWS Security Groups
o Cisco Nexus switches - 9Ks, 7Ks, 5Ks, 3Ks, FEXs
o SSL VPN solutions - Palo Alto, Junos Pulse, CheckPoint, Zscaler ZPA
What's in it for You
When you join CoStar Group, you'll experience a collaborative and innovative culture working alongside the best and brightest to empower our people and customers to succeed.
We offer you generous compensation and performance-based incentives. CoStar Group also invests in your professional and academic growth with internal training, tuition reimbursement, and an inter-office exchange program.
Our benefits package includes (but is not limited to):
• Comprehensive healthcare coverage: Medical / Vision / Dental / Prescription Drug
• Life, legal, and supplementary insurance
• Virtual and in person mental health counseling services for individuals and family
• Commuter and parking benefits
• 401(K) retirement plan with matching contributions
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Paid time off
• Tuition reimbursement
• On-site fitness center and/or reimbursed fitness center membership costs (location dependent), with yoga studio, Pelotons, personal training, group exercise classes
• Access to CoStar Group's Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Employee Resource Groups
• Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks
We welcome all qualified candidates who are currently eligible to work full-time in the United States to apply. However, please note that CoStar Group is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position.
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CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing