Senior Manager, Networking (R14154)

ABOUT OPORTUN Oportun (Nasdaq: OPRT) is a mission-driven financial services company that puts its members' financial goals within reach. With intelligent borrowing, savings, and budgeting capabilities, Oportun empowers members with the confidence to build a better financial future. Since inception, Oportun has provided more than $21.3 billion in responsible and affordable credit, saved its members more than $2.5 billion in interest and fees, and helped its members set aside an average of more than $1,800 annually. WORKING AT OPORTUN Working at Oportun means enjoying a differentiated experience of being part of a team that fosters a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture where we all feel a sense of belonging and are encouraged to share our perspectives. This inclusive culture is directly connected to our organization's performance and ability to fulfill our mission of delivering affordable credit to those left out of the financial mainstream. We celebrate and nurture our inclusive culture through our employee resource groups. POSITION OVERVIEW The Senior Manager, Networking is a hands-on technical leader responsible for designing, building, and evolving Oportun’s enterprise networking capabilities across on-premises, cloud, and secure-access environments. Rather than operating as a traditional network support function, this team is focused on solution engineering: translating business, security, resiliency, and scalability requirements into modern network architectures, reusable patterns, automation, and production-ready platforms. This leader will manage and develop a team of network engineers while remaining deeply engaged in architecture, engineering decisions, design reviews, implementation strategy, and complex technical problem solving. Working closely with Infrastructure, Information Security, Cloud Engineering, End User Computing, and application teams, the Senior Manager will establish engineering standards and deliver network solutions that improve availability, security, developer and employee experience, and operational simplicity. The role also owns the networking roadmap and drives modernization through cloud networking, Zero Trust, SD-WAN, observability, infrastructure as code, and automation. WHAT YOU’LL DO · Lead and develop a high-performing networking engineering team focused on architecture, solution design, implementation, automation, and modernization of Oportun’s enterprise network. · Own the technical roadmap for enterprise networking, translating business and technology strategy into scalable architectures, engineering priorities, and multi-quarter initiatives. · Architect and deliver solutions across routing, switching, wireless, VPN, firewalls, load balancing, SD-WAN, secure access, cloud networking, and hybrid connectivity. · Establish reference architectures, engineering standards, reusable design patterns, and guardrails that improve consistency, resiliency, security, and speed of delivery. · Drive network automation and infrastructure-as-code practices using technologies such as Python, Ansible, Terraform, PowerShell, APIs, and CI/CD workflows. · Partner with Information Security, Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure, End User Computing, application teams, and business stakeholders to engineer solutions for new capabilities, migrations, office/site changes, cloud adoption, and security initiatives. · Lead technical design reviews, proof-of-concepts, vendor evaluations, capacity planning, and complex troubleshooting; provide engineering direction for high-impact incidents when deep network expertise is required. · Modernize Oportun’s networking platforms and services across technologies such as Cisco/Juniper, Aruba/Mist, Palo Alto, Zscaler, Aviatrix, Azure, and AWS, balancing technical debt reduction with new capability delivery. · Build observability into network solutions by defining telemetry, performance measures, health signals, and actionable monitoring that enable proactive engineering and…