Director of Networking

About this role

Voyager is an innovative space, defense, and national security technology company committed to advancing and delivering transformative, mission-critical solutions. We tackle the most complex challenges to unlock new frontiers for human progress, fortify national security, and protect critical assets to lead in the race for technological and operational superiority from ground to space.

Forge the Future: Join Voyager Technologies

The future belongs to those who build it. At Voyager Technologies, we’re building technologies that protect lives, expand frontiers and prepare us for what’s next. And we’re doing that with people who are wired to solve, build, adapt and lead. These roles are not for the faint of heart. 

You’ll help lay the foundation for humanity's future. Join a culture where innovation thrives, curiosity is rewarded, and impact is real. We’re a company of doers, thinkers and builders, united by purpose and grounded in reality.

If you want to put your skills to work where the stakes are real and the mission is bigger than any one person,  forge the future with Voyager.

Job Summary

The Director of Networking is responsible for Voyager's corporate network strategy, architecture, operations, and lifecycle management across corporate offices, engineering environments, manufacturing sites, secure collaboration platforms, and mission-support locations.

Reporting to the Chief Information Officer (CIO), this leader will own the reliability, security, scalability, and performance of Voyager's corporate network foundation, including LAN/WAN, wireless, internet edge, SD-WAN, VPN, firewalls, network segmentation, monitoring, and carrier/provider relationships.

This role blends strategic leadership with technical depth. The successful candidate will modernize Voyager's network operating model, support rapid site growth, partner closely with cybersecurity and IT operations, and ensure network services meet the needs of a regulated aerospace, defense, and space technology business.

Responsibilities

Network Strategy & Architecture

• Define and execute the enterprise corporate networking roadmap across Voyager facilities, programs, and shared services.

• Develop network standards, reference architectures, lifecycle plans, and operating procedures for LAN, WAN, wireless, remote access, network edge, and segmentation.

• Design resilient network architectures that support engineering, manufacturing, secure collaboration, and high-availability business operations.

• Drive standardization across sites while allowing for mission-specific network requirements and regulated-environment constraints.

Network Operations & Reliability

• Own operational performance for corporate network services, including uptime, capacity, incident response, change control, and root-cause analysis.

• Establish monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and service metrics that make network health visible to IT and business leadership.

• Lead major network upgrades, site launches, office expansions, and migrations from legacy or ad-hoc designs to scalable enterprise patterns.

• Partner with IT support and infrastructure teams to resolve user-impacting connectivity issues quickly and sustainably.

Security, Compliance & Resilience

• Partner with cybersecurity to align network architecture with zero-trust principles, access controls, CMMC, ITAR/EAR, CUI handling, and enterprise risk requirements.

• Oversee firewall, VPN, network access control, segmentation, logging, and secure remote-access capabilities in coordination with security operations.

• Support audit readiness by maintaining network diagrams, standards, evidence, change records, and control documentation.

• Build network continuity, disaster recovery, and incident response playbooks for mission-critical sites and business services.

Leadership, Vendor & Financial Management

• Build and lead a high-performing network function, including internal staff, managed services, telecom carriers, and technology partners.

• Manage vendor performance, contracts, budgets, licensing, refresh cycles, and technology selection with strong commercial discipline.

• Communicate network risks, tradeoffs, investment needs, and progress clearly to executive and cross-functional stakeholders.

• Coach teams toward automation, documentation discipline, repeatable deployment patterns, and continuous operational improvement.

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Required Qualifications

• An active TS/SCI upon hire

• High school diploma or equivalent.

• 10+ years of progressive networking, infrastructure, or enterprise IT experience, including 5+ years leading network teams, programs, or major network transformation efforts.

• Deep hands-on knowledge of enterprise LAN/WAN, wireless, firewalls, VPN, SD-WAN, internet edge, routing, switching, DNS/DHCP, network monitoring, and network segmentation.

• Experience supporting multi-site enterprise environments with high availability, secure access, and regulated data requirements.

• Demonstrated ability to lead network modernization, standardization, and operational maturity across distributed facilities.

• Experience partnering with cybersecurity teams on access controls, segmentation, logging, vulnerability remediation, and incident response.

• Strong executive communication, vendor management, budget planning, and cross-functional stakeholder management skills.

• U.S. Person status required for ITAR/export-control eligibility.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in aerospace, defense, space systems, advanced manufacturing, or another highly regulated industry.

• Experience with Microsoft cloud networking, Azure Government, GCC High, secure collaboration environments, and hybrid connectivity.

• Experience with Cisco

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