Manager, Network Infrastructure

About Riot Platforms

Riot’s (NASDAQ: RIOT) vision is to be the world’s most trusted platform for powering and building digital infrastructure. Riot’s mission is to empower the future of digital infrastructure by positively impacting the sectors, networks, and communities that we touch. We believe that the combination of an innovative spirit and strong community partnership allows us to achieve best-in-class execution and create successful outcomes.

Riot’s (NASDAQ: RIOT) vision is to be the world’s most trusted platform for powering and building digital infrastructure. Riot’s mission is to empower the future of digital infrastructure by positively impacting the sectors, networks, and communities that we touch. We believe that the combination of an innovative spirit and strong community partnership allows us to achieve best-in-class execution and create successful outcomes.

At Riot, we’re building the future of digital infrastructure. Our team members have unparalleled opportunities to work on groundbreaking initiatives. Through technical excellence and strategic execution, Riot has positioned itself as a leader in the industry driving advancements that continue to set new benchmarks in digital infrastructure.

We are trailblazers. Problem solvers. People who thrive in fast paced environments, communicate clearly, and bring relentless focus to efficiency and execution.

Riot is expanding our footprint into hyperscale data centers for AI and HPC clients, and we’re looking for a Manager, Network Infrastructure to help shape the future of digital infrastructure.

As our Manager, Network Infrastructure, you will lead the design, operation, security, and continuous improvement of Riot’s enterprise network infrastructure across multiple locations. This role is responsible for ensuring the availability, performance, scalability, and security of wired, wireless, WAN, and data center network environments that support corporate, manufacturing, engineering, and operational teams.

This is a hands‑on leadership role for someone who can set technical direction, manage network priorities, and provide operational oversight while remaining actively engaged in complex troubleshooting, infrastructure projects, and vendor coordination. The ideal candidate is technically strong, detail‑oriented, and capable of leading a stable, secure, and high‑performing network environment in a fast‑paced organization.

This position will be based in Austin, TX with travel to Rockdale, TX as needed.

• Manage, mentor, and develop network engineering resources while maintaining a strong hands‑on technical presence.
• Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure network architectures that support corporate offices, manufacturing operations, engineering teams, and data center environments.
• Expert knowledge of enterprise networking, protocols, switching, and network design.
• Monitor network performance, capacity, availability, and security events; respond to alerts and proactively identify opportunities for improvement.
• Establish and maintain network standards, documentation, diagrams, configurations, operating procedures, and disaster‑recovery plans.
• Lead network troubleshooting and serve as the primary escalation point for complex connectivity, performance, and security issues.
• Plan and execute network upgrades, site deployments, hardware refreshes, migrations, and infrastructure expansion projects in accordance with established change‑management processes.
• Partner with Systems, Security, Engineering, Software, and Operations teams to ensure network infrastructure meets business, operational, and security requirements.
• Ensure network security best practices are followed, including access control, segmentation, firewall policy management, secure remote access, patch compliance, and infrastructure hardening.
• Develop and maintain network monitoring, alerting, and reporting capabilities to provide visibility into network health and performance.
• Coordinate with field operations, SCADA/OT teams, infrastructure teams, security teams, application teams, service providers, and vendors to deliver…