Director, Network Operations

ADP is hiring a Director, Network Services

• Are you empathetic to client needs and inspired by transformation and impacting the lives of millions of people every day?
• Are you an inspiring leader who people have followed and worked for over and over again?
• Are you looking to join a dynamic, inclusive team environment with a culture of collaboration and belonging? 

Well, this may be the role for you. Ready to design what’s next?

In this role, you will be responsible for overseeing 24×7 network operations, engineering and delivery across the enterprise, including on-premises environments, datacenters, and cloud environments. This role is a global role with networking associates and leads in many parts of the world.  You will be accountable for the operational stability, performance, and continuous improvement of the enterprise network. This role leads global 24×7 network operations responsible for on-premises, data centers, and cloud networking environments. The position emphasizes operational rigor, incident and change management excellence, observability, and execution against defined service-level objectives in a globally distributed, follow-the-sun model.

No two days are the same as you work with your team and business leaders to understand our next wave of work. To thrive in this role, you’ll have 10 years of experience leading global network operations teams, as well as progressive experience in enterprise network operations and engineering. You’re a passionate leader focused on engagement as well as results, and you’re not afraid to roll your sleeves up and dive into the code when necessary. As part of our team, you’ll find exciting challenges, get opportunities to grow your career, and develop solid friendships as we design what’s next for ADP and the industry. Pace should not scare you. We still find time for a healthy dose of fun.

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WHAT YOU’LL DO:

Here’s what you can expect on a typical day:

Network Operations & Service Delivery

• Own 24×7 global network operations, ensuring availability, performance, and resiliency across LAN, WAN, WLAN, VPN, SD-WAN, carrier circuits, and related infrastructure.
• Maintain accountability for the global health of the network estate, including Cisco switching, wireless, SD-WAN, and supporting platforms.
• Ensure all critical services are monitored, alerted, and operationally supported.
• Establish and enforce operational KPIs, SLAs, and runbooks to drive consistent service delivery and accountability.
• Own Objectives and Key Results (OKR) metrics
• Produce regular operational reporting and dashboards for leadership, highlighting performance, risk, and improvement opportunities.

Incident, Problem & Change Management

• Lead global incident management for network-related outages, including participation in on-call escalation for critical events.
• Leverage your strong background in troubleshooting, and strong analytical skills, to be able to isolate/troubleshoot a problem and lead the team to the root of a problem.
• Ensure timely root cause analysis (RCA), post-incident reviews, and implementation of corrective and preventative actions.
• Drive a culture of urgency, ownership, and continuous improvement to reduce incident frequency and MTTR.
• Own global network change management processes, including weekly change review meetings and governance.
• Review, challenge, approve, and oversee execution of network changes through the ServiceNow change management platform.
• Assess downstream application and service impacts to minimize operational risk.

Network Analytics, Monitoring & Observability

• Build and operate a Network Analytics mindset and Observability Center of Excellence (COE).
• Leverage telemetry, analytics, and monitoring tools to provide real-time visibility into network performance and availability.
• Define thresholds, alerts, and trend analysis to proactively identify and mitigate issues before customer impact.
• Standardize dashboards and metrics to support operational decision-making and executive visibility.

Global Team Leadership & Execution

• Direct and manage a globally distributed team of network operations, delivery, and engineering professionals.
• Own and operate a follow-the-sun support model with seamless regional handoffs, consistent processes, and standardized tooling.
• Provide hands-on leadership through coaching, mentoring, performance management, and career development.
• Ensure teams understand operational priorities, expectations, and their role in maintaining service stability.
• Foster strong collaboration with Infrastructure, Cloud, Security, Service Management, Monitoring, and Application teams.

Lifecycle, Asset & Configuration Management

• Own lifecycle management for all network assets, ensuring hardware, software, and firmware remain compliant and supported.
• Enforce adherence to global hardware and software standards across the network estate.
• Ensure accurate representation of network assets and dependencies within ITAM and CMDB systems.
• Maintain high data quality for configuration items, including upstream and downstream service relationships.
• Build and validate bills of materials (BOMs) for office build-outs and real estate projects in alignment with standards.

Vendor, Carrier & Capacity Management

• Manage global carrier relationships, service providers, and network vendors.
• Ensure capacity planning and utilization monitoring support current and forecasted business needs.
• Evaluate vendor performance, escalate service issues, and recommend improvements or alternatives to leadership.
• Support contract renewals and vendor selection by providing operational performance insights.

Security & Compliance Operations

• Partner with Information Security teams to ensure network operations meet security and compliance requirements.
• Own remediation of network-related audit and compliance findings using Archer as the system of record.
• Ensure security controls are operationalized and validated within day-to-day network operations.

Automation & Operational Improvement

• Work with automation team to reduce human reactive work.
• Identify operational inefficiencies and recommend process improvements or tooling enhancements.
• Promote standardized, repeatable, and auditable operational practices across all regions.

TO SUCCEED IN THIS ROLE:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 10 years of progressive experience in enterprise network operations and engineering.
• CCIE or equivalent work experience of 10 years
• 10 years of experience leading global network operations teams.
• Demonstrated experience running 24×7, follow-the-sun operational models.
• Strong hands-on experience with enterprise networking technologies including LAN, WAN, WLAN, SD-WAN, VPN, and carrier services.
• Proven experience with ITSM processes, including incident, problem, and change management.
• Experience with ServiceNow or comparable ITSM platforms.
• Strong operational reporting, KPI definition, and service-level management experience.
• Must be able to work well under pressure and have a strong understanding of the existing technology landscape along with new and emerging technologies, as well as, Business Process improvements and Change Management.
• Must possess senior level communication, presentation and negotiation skills and recognized organizational savvy. Superb organizational and time management skills for managing multiple, diverse and conflicting activities and senior leaders as required.
• Must be able to interface with and influence key internal stakeholders, as well as interact effectively with client contacts and third-party vendor representatives.
• Experience leadership capable of building a strong cross business unit team that can achieve the highest standards of performance.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Experience operating large-scale Cisco, F5, Palo Alto Networks, Arista, and Fortinet based environments.
• Network observability and analytics platforms.
• Experience integrating automation into network operations (e.g., scripting, orchestration, auto-remediation).
• Cloud networking SME experience across major providers (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience supporting compliance frameworks and audits in regulated environments.
• ITIL certification or equivalent operational framework experience.

Leadership Competencies

• Operational Ownership:Demonstrates accountability for service reliability, stability, and execution.
• Decisive Incident Leadership:Remains calm under pressure, drives rapid resolution, and makes informed risk-based decisions.
• People Development:Builds high-performing teams through coaching, feedback, and clear expectations.
• Process Discipline:Values structured, repeatable processes and enforces operational rigor.
• Data-Driven Management:Uses metrics, dashboards, and analytics to guide decisions and prioritize work.
• Collaboration & Influence:Effectively partners across technical and business teams to resolve issues and deliver outcomes.
• Continuous Improvement Mindset:Proactively identifies gaps and drives incremental operational improvements.

Attitude

• Considers themselves a technologist or engineer first and seeks to champion development creativity.
• Empathy for customer needs and business unit associates to drive overall customer success.
• Able to make the hard calls on personnel assignments. Not afraid to take bold moves.
• Understands the criticality of quality and continual operations (24x7x365).
• Can operate in distributed/large company (1000+ engineers working in software/SaaS).

YOU’LL LOVE WORKING HERE BECAUSE YOU CAN:

• Have courageous team collaboration. Courage comes from how associates are willing to have difficult conversations, speak up, be an owner, and challenge one another’s ideas to net out the best solution.
• Deliver at epic scale. We deliver real user outcomes using strong judgment and good instincts. We’re obsessed with the art of achieving simplicity with a focus on client happiness and productivity.
• Be surrounded by curious learners. We align ourselves with other smart people in an environment where we grow and elevate one another to the next level. We encourage our associates to listen, stay agile, and learn from mistakes.
• Act like an owner & doer. Mission-driven and committed to leading change, you will be encouraged to take on any challenge and solve complex problems. No tasks are beneath or too great for us. We are hands-on and willing to master our craft.
• Give back to others. Always do the right thing for our clients and our community and humbly give back to the community where we live and work. Support our associates in times of need through ADP’s Philanthropic Foundation.
• Join a company committed to equality and equity. Our goal is to impact lasting change through our actions.

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