How to become a Network Engineering Manager in Australia
Network engineering
Manages a network engineering team for a site or a region.
What the role does
Manages a site or regional network engineering team.
What a shift looks like
Office hours, with on-call. Planning, budgets, people and the escalations the team can’t close.
Skills
The level the role needs in each, on FacilityVR’s five levels from Aware to Authority.
Network deployment and operations
- Coordinate a carrier circuit turn-up Leads others
- Network layers and routing Leads others
- Turn up routers and optical transport Leads others
Leadership
- Coach and assess others Leads others
- Find root causes and learn from incidents Leads others
- Lead a shift Leads others
- Supervise contractors and vendors Leads others
Procedures and documents
- Work within change management Leads others
Emergency response
- Recognise and report a suspected cyber incident Independent
Ways in and ways on
From another data centre role
- From Data Centre Network Engineer, typically 3 years
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Sources and licences
- Critical Facilities reference framework © Facility Labs. (CC BY 4.0)