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Build a career working for an industry leader that truly invests in their people - and equips them with leading technology, continuous learning, and the ability to bring their best selves to work. As North America’s largest total beverage distributor, Southern Glazer’s isn't just one of Forbes’ Top Private Companies; it's a family-owned business with deep roots dating back to 1933.\nSouthern Glazer’s is proud of its well-earned positive reputation, continually achieving accolades for our outstanding workplace culture. We take pride in creating a culture where our people are valued, supported, and provided opportunities for growth and belonging.\nAs a full-time employee, you can choose from a wide-ranging menu of our Top Shelf Benefits, including comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage, dental and vision plans, tax-saving Flexible Spending Accounts, disability coverage, life insurance plans, and a 401(k) plan. 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licensing, support renewals, and lifecycle replacement planning.\nMinimum Qualifications\nAt least 8 years of experience in enterprise network engineering, infrastructure technology delivery, or network operations, with a minimum of 3 years in a leadership role managing technical teams across multiple locations.\nExperience leading teams responsible for enterprise LAN, WAN, WLAN, SD-WAN, internet edge, branch networking, data center connectivity, and cloud network integration.\nStrong understanding of enterprise routing, switching, wireless, and security technologies, including BGP, OSPF, VLANs, QoS, VPN, network segmentation, high availability, and resilient network design.\nDemonstrated ability to manage complex infrastructure delivery initiatives in fast-paced, distributed organizations with multiple business stakeholders and geographically dispersed sites.\nProven track record building and sustaining high-performing engineering teams capable of modernizing infrastructure while meeting operational and project commitments.\nExperience managing external vendors, telecom providers, managed service providers, hardware manufacturers, licensing partners, and professional services firms.\nExperience driving adoption of new technology standards through documentation, training, governance, communication, and organizational change management.\nStrong operational discipline with experience in incident management, change management, root cause analysis, risk management, and continuous service improvement.\nAbility to communicate technical strategy, risks, tradeoffs, and investment needs clearly to senior technology and business leadership.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with enterprise networking platforms and ecosystems such as Cisco, Arista, Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, Meraki, Aruba, or equivalent technologies.\nExperience with SD-WAN, SASE, Zero Trust Network Access, network access control, micro-segmentation, cloud connectivity, and hybrid-cloud network 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