Network Sr Manager

**Responsibilities**

At PepsiCo, we’re redefining what it means to be a consumer products company with a digital-first mindset, and our Global IT team is leading that charge. Our technology teams unlock digital capabilities, enhance cybersecurity safeguards, deliver data-driven insights, and create unmatched consumer and customer experiences.

Our culture is guided by the PepsiCo Way, which is a set of values that define our mission to win with purpose in the marketplace and act with integrity in everything we do. We’re creating smiles with every sip and every bite while advancing a sustainable, socially impactful agenda that promotes our goal of Winning with Purpose.

The Global IT team supports just that with our mission to create more smiles with every CLICK and every LIKE. Join our global, agile team and help us influence and drive PepsiCo’s digital transformation**What will you be doing?**

**Accountabilities**:

- Access Management
- Network Capacity Management
- Global Network Risk Management
- Core Services Data Mapping
- Vendor Management for Network Services
- HCL MNS Billing Validation:

- Represent GNS in Vendor Governance Meetings
- Managed Network Services Contract Governance & SLA/KPI Sign off
- Network Security Services - Lead Product Owner
- Firewalls - Perimeter Defense - IDS/IPS - Threat Monitoring - PAC Mgmt - Content Filtering - Vulnerability Management - B2B - Proxy
- Vendor Management - MSP / Vendor Management - Making Decisions
- Key Performance Indicators - Maintaining SLA's and performance levels - Making Decisions
- Initiative: Displaying initiative in the absence of management by taking action and accepting responsibility, ability to work efficiently with mínimal supervision, having the ability to cover other shift responsibilities in the absence of team members. Making Decisions
- Diagnose highly complex problems and design long term fixes. - Making Decisions
- Propose best operational practices and processes to customers, internal teams and senior management teams. - Making Decisions
- Ensure proper follow up to highly complex fixes to include but are not limited to proposed changes in existing network design and or architectures, best processes for new project and initiatives. Making Decisions
- Must take lead for any new network platforms introduced into production environments and determine all operational validations tests and requirements are met. Making Decisions

**Qualifications**
**Who are we looking for?**

**Key Skills/Experience Required**:

- 10+ years Firewalls, Proxy's - Security Services
- 5+ years Site Reliability Engineering
- 5+ years Vulnerability Management
- 8+ years Cisco platforms
- Proven experience managing various large-scale enterprise network topologies including LAN, WAN,
- Wireless, Network Security and IP Services.
- Expert knowledge of infrastructure components (e.g., routers, load balancers, proxy, firewalls, cloud products, compute, storage, and networks)
- Able to identify manual operational tasks and develop automation to solve problems in a modern SRE support model
- Drive the collection of performance metrics that will help drive automation, reduce network down time and enhance our decision-making capability

**What can you expect from us?**
- Competitive compensation package
- A flexible work environment that promotes a healthy balance between personal and professional life
- A dynamic and inclusive culture
- A supportive team that will foster your professional growth and development
- Opportunity to work with relevant projects worldwide
- Opportunity to give back to the community with our volunteer programs