Manager, Data Center Operations & Networking Engineering

Exemption Status: United States of America (Exempt) $115,142 - $161,200 - $207,257 “Pay scale information is not necessarily reflective of actual compensation that may be earned, nor a promise of any specific pay for any selected candidate or employee, which is always dependent on actual experience, education, qualifications, and other factors. A full review of our comprehensive pay and benefits will be discussed at the offer stage with the selected candidate.” This position is not eligible for Sponsorship.

MedImpact Healthcare Systems, Inc. is looking for extraordinary people to join our team! Why join MedImpact? Because our success is dependent on you; innovative professionals with top notch skills who thrive on opportunity, high performance, and teamwork. We look for individuals who want to work on a team that cares about making a difference in the value of healthcare. At MedImpact, we deliver leading edge pharmaceutical and technology related solutions that dramatically improve the value of health care. We provide superior outcomes to those we serve through innovative products, systems, and services that provide transparency and promote choice in decision making. Our vision is to set the standard in providing solutions that optimize satisfaction, service, cost, and quality in the healthcare industry. We are the premier Pharmacy Benefits Management solution!

Job Description

The IT Manager, Data Center Operations & Network Engineering is responsible for the strategic direction, operational excellence, reliability, security, and lifecycle management of the organization’s on‑premises data centers, colocation facilities, enterprise network infrastructure, and cloud‑connected environments. This role leads teams responsible for physical data center operations, network engineering, telecommunications, and infrastructure services to ensure highly available, secure, scalable, and resilient technology platforms that support business‑critical operations. The position provides leadership for infrastructure service delivery, data center and network architecture, disaster recovery readiness, capacity planning, incident management, vendor oversight, and technology modernization. The manager partners with Information Security, systems and cloud engineering, application teams, business stakeholders, and service providers to align infrastructure capabilities with organizational growth, regulatory obligations, and operational priorities.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

On Premises Data Center Operations

Lead day‑to‑day and long‑term operations of enterprise‑owned on‑premises data centers, disaster recovery sites, and colocation facilities. Manage physical data center space, racks, cabinets, structured cabling, power utilization, cooling, environmental monitoring, and capacity forecasts. Coordinate installation, relocation, maintenance, and decommissioning of servers, storage, network equipment, and supporting infrastructure. Ensure physical security, access controls, maintenance procedures, documentation, and operational standards are consistently followed. Oversee facility incidents and planned maintenance involving generators, UPS systems, power distribution, cooling, fire suppression, and building services. Develop data center growth, consolidation, modernization, and lifecycle plans that balance resiliency, cost, capacity, and business risk.

Network Engineering and Architecture

Lead the architecture, engineering, implementation, and lifecycle management of enterprise LAN, WAN, data center, internet, wireless, and remote‑access networks. Oversee core routing and switching, firewalls, load balancers, DNS, DHCP, IP address management, VPN, SD‑WAN, and network management platforms. Design resilient connectivity between on‑premises data centers, colocation facilities, corporate locations, cloud platforms, business partners, and external clients. Establish network architecture standards for segmentation, redundancy, scalability, performance, security, and recoverability. Drive network modernization, automation, observability, configuration management, and infrastructure‑as‑code practices where appropriate. Partner with cloud and platform engineering teams on hybrid connectivity, cloud routing, private connectivity, network security controls, and traffic management.

Network Operations and Service Reliability

Ensure 24x7 availability and performance of critical network and data center services through proactive monitoring, alerting, and operational readiness. Lead response to major network and infrastructure incidents, including technical escalation, stakeholder communication, service restoration, root cause analysis, and corrective actions. Define