Senior Director, Network Development

** Job Description*
* Accountable for strategy, architecture governance, and operational excellence across a large, multi-region network engineering group. Sets direction for network reliability, performance, security, and automation at enterprise scale.

Harmonizes network strategy across groups and with Organization, partnering with senior and executive stakeholders to deliver resilient, compliant, and cost-efficient networks for data center, cloud, WAN, and edge. Directs complex, cross-functional programs that improve availability, latency, throughput, and total cost of ownership; embeds automation-first operations, rigorous validation, and continuous improvement across the portfolio. Builds and develops a high-performing, inclusive leadership bench;

owns budgets, vendor strategy, and KPI reporting; ensures delivery against SLOs and regulatory requirements.

** Responsibilities*
* ** Key Responsibilities*
* ** Network Design, Development, and Validation:*
* -Define and govern multi-year architecture and design standards across cloud, data center, WAN, and edge; ensure designs meet resilience, security, and compliance objectives.

-Sponsor transformational programs (e.g., SDN/intent-based networking, zero-trust segmentation) and enforce design reviews, configuration baselines, and lifecycle policies across regions.

-Establish enterprise validation strategy for new architectures, hardware/firmware, and software at scale; require pre-production proofs, pilot rollouts, and rollback plans.

-Align network roadmap with product and platform strategies; balance innovation with reliability, cost, and regulatory constraints.

** Automation and Scripting:*
* -Set group strategy for network automation frameworks, pipelines, and "policy as code"; standardize reusable modules, guardrails, and CI/CD for network changes.

-Prioritize automation investments that reduce toil, increase change velocity, and improve MTTR; track benefits through measurable KPIs and error budget adherence.

-Ensure secure-by-design automation practices, including access controls, audit trails, and compliance checkpoints; drive adoption across all regions and teams in group.

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* Testing and Quality Assurance:

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* -Own group wide test strategy and acceptance criteria for configurations, images, and changes; mandate automated regression, canary/blue-green rollouts, and production-safety checks.

-Institutionalize quality gates and change readiness reviews; ensure RCAs and corrective actions are systematically integrated into test plans and playbooks.

-Run governance forums to assess test coverage, defect escape, and reliability risk; direct group-wide Corrective and Preventive Actions priorities and timelines.

** Monitoring and Reliability:*
* -Define network health strategy, SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets across services and regions; enforce consistent telemetry, alerting, and runbook standards.

-Lead executive-level incident management for high-severity events; require consistent RCA quality, cross-org learnings, and durable remediation at scale.

-Drive resiliency investments (e.g., redundancy, fault isolation, DR exercises); validate business continuity and recovery outcomes against policy and regulatory needs.

** Cross-Team Collaboration and Leadership:*
* -Align network strategy with Cloud/Infra, SRE, Security, Product, and Finance; chair architecture and change boards to manage dependencies and risks.

-Build leadership capacity through coaching, succession planning, and inclusive practices; set clear expectations for managers and technical leaders across group.

-Own strategic vendor relationships and contract negotiations; drive joint roadmaps, performance SLAs, and remediation plans for systemic issues.

** Performance and Capacity Management:*
* -Govern capacity planning and forecasting models to meet growth, launches, and expansion; tie plans to budget cycles and supply constraints.

-Set performance targets (latency, jitter, packet loss, throughput) and optimization strategies; eliminate hotspots via routing policy, peering, placement, and traffic engineering.

-Balance cost, performance, and resiliency trade-offs; implement continuous cost optimization and…