Overview

Here at Discount Tire, we celebrate the spirit of our people with extraordinary pride and enthusiasm. Our business has been growing for more than 60 years and now is the best time in our history to join us. We are opening more locations every year and we are always looking for qualified individuals to join us in our growth.

The Network Engineering Assistant Manager will have the right Technical and Leadership aptitude to coach and lead by example. Will participate in and execute technical implementations alongside a technical team.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Promotes the Company Vision To be the BEST!
  • Caring for and Cultivating People
  • Delighting our Customers
  • Growing Responsibly
  • Drives Value to the Business
• Lives and shares The Dream and philosophies and assists others to realize their dream; connects employees to Company vision and purpose
• Participates in recruitment, hiring, training, employee development and performance management
• Provides direction and feedback on day-to-day activities
• Communicates clear expectations, goals and development opportunities
• Liaise collaboration between managers, customers and employees
• Proxy for Network Manager in absence of IT Leadership in making decision
• Prepares employee development plans; recommends appropriate action to upper management
• Conducts performance reviews
• Provides Technical Mentoring and Coaching
• Serves as an escalation point for interpersonal and operational employee challenges
• Preform regular one on one meeting with team members
• Manages work schedules
• Monitors and adjusts employee workloads
• Monitors department projects to ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget
• Assist in gathering, tracking and reporting department attainment of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to upper management
• Collaboratively work across departments to identify and resolve risks, conflicts and challenges, recommends resolution and implementing process improvements
• Stays current on the latest industry technologies, trends, and strategies; brings forward solutions and serves as a Trusted Expert
• Develops and maintains departmental governance procedures
• Represent Network Engineering in times of absence of the Network Manager. Make executive decisions, hold meetings and provide accountability.

Specific duties to Assistant Manager, Network Engineering:

• Provides leadership and strategy in evaluating and implementing new technologies that enhances Discount Tire's Network Infrastructure environments
• Consults with multiple stakeholders to collaboratively define and improve IT Network Engineering best practices.
• Assist Network Manager with tracking assigned project to ensure projects are within budget and timelines are adjusted as needed.
• Works closely with enterprise security to ensure security requirements are fully integrated into IT Network strategies, designs and implementations
• Lead the design and development of monitoring, reporting, and analytics focused on ensuring resiliency and proactive alerting for Network Monitoring.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

• This position requires a minimum of 8 years experience leading highly technical teams in developing network strategies, network project designs, and producing documentation for operation transition.
• Experience in managing and leading teams. Proven ability to provide a high degree of planning, execution and outcome is required.
• Strong analytical and financial skills are required including, ability to collect, organize, analyze and disseminate information with attention to detail and accuracy.
• Must have demonstrated leadership ability, business acumen, and industry knowledge.
• SDN and SD-WAN Network experience
• Routing and Switching experience with BGP, EIGRP,OSPF, IPSec, GRE, HSRP/VRRP, NAT/PAT, SNMP, MPLS VoIP, SIP, VPLS, QoS, Firewalls, SDN, SDA, and Cisco DNA
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint is needed.
• Ability to communicate across all levels of the organization, present complex ideas concisely and clearly articulate ideas both verbally and in writing is necessary.
• Excellent analytical, planning and negotiation skills are needed.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the expert ability to develop strong relationships with key members of both internal and vendor teams.
• Demonstrated business acumen with an expert knowledge and understanding of business issues, priorities, goals, and strategy is necessary.
• Must be highly organized, extremely detail oriented with strong leadership experience.
• Maintaining confidentiality, treating others with respect and upholding Company values is a key attribute.
• Ability to perform in a fast-paced, goal oriented, and time sensitive environment.
• The ability to drive organizational transformation; communicates openly and builds consensus with stakeholders.

Competencies Required:

• Problem solving skills: Investigate appropriate resources and involve partners when appropriate. Future oriented. Assess what will help or hinder achieving organizational goals. Focus on what is important.
• Interpersonal skills: Deal with others in a considerate, respectful, and unbiased manner. Approach conflict proactively. Solicit and share feedback openly. Listen with empathy and maintain composure.
• Accuracy: Draw on facts collected from a broad knowledge of organizational goals and processes.
• Adaptability: Correct behaviors and communication style to meet the needs of a wide range of situations. Tackle obstacles appropriately. Comfortable with ambiguity.
• Reliability: Exhibit exceptional integrity is accountable to others; does what it takes to get the job done. Actions are consistent with words. Follow through on commitments..
• Attitude: Display commitment to the organization and to personal growth. Is self-motivated and able to motivate and inspire others. Assert self appropriately to champion ideas. Tell the truth in a direct and constructive way.
• Initiative: Self-directs with a strong tendency for action. Lead the way to improve performance or processes. Display keen interest in our customers and our organization. Self-direct with a strong tendency for action. Lead the way to improve performance or processes. Display keen interest in our customers and self-directs with a strong tendency for action. Lead the way to improve performance or processes. Display keen interest in our customers and our organization.

Educational Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or related field is required.
• Professional certifications are a plus.

Discount Tire provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

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