Global WAN Architect

Job Type: Full-Time |

Location:

Dallas/Fort Worth | Department:
Network | Reporting to:
Associate Director, Network | Work Location Type: #onsite

IREN is a leading AI Cloud Service Provider, delivering large-scale GPU clusters for AI training and inference. IREN’s vertically integrated platform is underpinned by its expansive portfolio of grid‑connected land and data centers in renewable‑rich regions across the U.S. and Canada. With 100% renewable energy, we build, own and operate our data centers and take pride in being at the forefront of sustainable solutions for the ever‑evolving applications of high‑performance compute.

We believe that human progress is invaluable, but it should be done in the right way – responsibly, sustainably and having a positive impact on the communities we operate in.

The Global WAN Architect is the primary owner for global WAN, fibre, and ISP connectivity delivery across current and future AI/HPC infrastructure deployments. The Global WAN Connectivity Lead is responsible for ensuring every site is delivered with sufficient bandwidth capacity, carrier diversity, resiliency, and operational readiness to support large-scale GPU and high-performance compute environments.

The role has a singular operational focus: bandwidth delivery and connectivity readiness. You will relentlessly drive ISPs, carriers, dark fibre providers, colocation partners, and telecommunications vendors to accelerate fibre installs, circuit turn‑ups, capacity upgrades, route diversity, and remediation activities across rapidly scaling infrastructure deployments.

This is an execution-heavy leadership role operating at the intersection of network engineering, carrier operations, deployment coordination, and infrastructure delivery. The successful candidate will own connectivity timelines end-to-end, aggressively elevate blockers, and ensure WAN infrastructure is operationally resilient before customer and infrastructure go‑live events.

This is not a passive vendor management role. It requires a technically credible operator with deep experience in carrier delivery, WAN infrastructure, fibre deployment, and escalation management within high‑availability environments.

The role reports to the Associate Director – Network Engineering and partners closely with Infrastructure Deployment, Procurement, Site Operations, Systems Engineering, and external carrier organizations.

• 8+ years of experience in WAN infrastructure, fibre deployment, telecommunications delivery, carrier operations, or large-scale network connectivity roles.
• Strong understanding of WAN architecture, fibre infrastructure, carrier provisioning processes, route diversity, colocation networking, and high-capacity connectivity environments.
• Proven experience managing ISPs, telecommunications providers, dark fibre operators, or carrier delivery programs within mission‑critical infrastructure environments.
• Demonstrated ability to aggressively manage escalations, drive provider accountability, and remove delivery blockers under high-pressure timelines.
• Experience coordinating connectivity deployments across data centers, AI/HPC environments, enterprise infrastructure, or hyperscale deployments.
• Strong operational understanding of resiliency design, failover planning, bandwidth scaling, and high-availability network infrastructure.
• Familiarity with long-haul transport, DWDM, IX connectivity, backbone infrastructure, and carrier interconnection models is highly desirable.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and cross-functional stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to operate effectively across engineering, procurement, deployment, operations, and vendor organizations.
• Strong organizational and execution capabilities with the ability to manage multiple concurrent deployment programs globally.
• Experience supporting GPU compute, AI infrastructure, HPC, or hyperscale infrastructure environments is preferred.
• Highly execution-oriented with strong ownership mentality, urgency, and operational discipline.

• Own end-to-end WAN, fibre, ISP, and carrier connectivity delivery…