Position: IT Manager - Network Strategy & Operations
Location: St. Louis, Missouri - Local to MO only
Duration: Permanent Role
Job ID: 174109
Job Overview: The Network Strategy & Operations Department is seeking an IT Manager to lead the Application Delivery and Load Balancing team. This team plays a vital role in ensuring secure, scalable, and high-performing delivery of low-latency applications across global infrastructure. The IT Manager will provide leadership, guidance, and direction to a highly technical team of engineers, focusing on design, implementation, and optimization of load balancing solutions that support enterprise-wide applications and services. This role involves setting vision, fostering collaboration, removing obstacles, and ensuring alignment with business and IT stakeholders. The IT Manager will also oversee team performance, career development, and team culture, including hiring, training, mentoring, rewarding, and recognition.
Responsibilities: - Build, coach, and grow a high-performing team of network engineers through mentoring and career development.
- Foster a culture of trust, accountability, and collaboration across IT and business functions.
- Communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders and bridge business priorities with engineering execution.
- Own team performance management, hiring, training, and recognition.
- Define and drive team objectives, ensuring solutions meet business needs for resilience, scalability, and security.
- Oversee team delivery of network designs, architectures, and related project plans.
- Collaborate with leaders and teams throughout IT to ensure alignment and partnership.
- Partner with vendors and procurement to shape strategic direction, evaluate solutions, and contribute to contract reviews.
- Provide oversight for escalations, ensuring timely resolution while empowering engineers to own technical outcomes.
- Balance risk with business priorities and apply appropriate urgency to issues.
Qualifications: - Must be presently authorized to work in the U.S. without a requirement for work authorization sponsorship.
- Must reside in St. Louis, Missouri, or immediate surrounding area.
- Must be able to work a schedule within U.S. Central Standard Time core business hours.
- 6+ years of relevant IT Leadership experience.
- 3+ years of strong leadership experience with the ability to build, mentor, and empower high-performing technical teams.
- Experience defining and managing IT projects.
- Familiarity with product lifecycle best practices.
- Experience in strategic planning, incident/risk management, project management, and resource allocation.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Management Information Systems, or related field preferred.
- Experience leading IT teams in large-scale enterprise or service provider environments.
- Proven track record of building strong vendor and partner relationships.
- Experience managing the delivery of high-availability IT services, optimizing performance, scalability, and user experience across complex systems.
- Experience with project management methodologies (Agile, waterfall).
- Knowledge of core networking including Route/Switch, firewalls, DNS, DHCP, and IPAM.
- Experience using service management tools such as Jira, Big Picture, or ServiceNow.
- Basic knowledge of network security principles and cloud networking.
About PTR Global: PTR Global is a leading provider of information technology and workforce solutions. PTR Global has become one of the largest providers in its industry, with over 5000 professionals providing services across the U.S. and Canada. For more information visit ;br>
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Pay Range: $150000 - $170000/ Year
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