Director, Network Engineering

Job Description

Provide leadership for one or more Network Engineering teams or a small group delivering hyperscale L3/L4 networking and cloud connectivity. Define tactical and strategic plans, drive significant cross-group improvements in reliability, security, and cost efficiency, and communicate progress and risks to leadership. Manage elements of the budget and are accountable for meeting budget targets across the teams you lead. May have a mixed team of Network Engineers and Network Hardware Engineers, coordinating the physical network platform lifecycle (planning, sourcing, qualifying, sustaining routers/switches, optics/OLS, timing, cabling) to ensure interoperable, cost- and power-efficient components that enable reliable, secure, and compliant services at scale

Provide leadership for one or more Network Engineering teams or a small group delivering hyperscale L3/L4 networking and cloud connectivity. Define tactical and strategic plans, drive significant cross-group improvements in reliability, security, and cost efficiency, and communicate progress and risks to leadership. Manage elements of the budget and are accountable for meeting budget targets across the teams you lead. May have a mixed team of Network Engineers and Network Hardware Engineers, coordinating the physical network platform lifecycle (planning, sourcing, qualifying, sustaining routers/switches, optics/OLS, timing, cabling) to ensure interoperable, cost- and power-efficient components that enable reliable, secure, and compliant services at scale

Key Responsibilities

L3/L4 Network Topologies and Overlays:

• Defines multi-quarter architecture roadmap for DC fabrics, routing policy, IPv6 strategy, failure domains, and traffic engineering across regions.
• Leads cross-team design reviews and modernization programs (e.g., EVPN/VXLAN/SDN upgrades); enforces MOP/rollback and verification standards.

Cloud Networking Implementation and Operations:

• Standardizes VPC/VCN topologies, transit/peering, Private Link/service endpoints, NAT, and inter-/multi-cloud connectivity.
• Optimizes L4/L7 load balancing and service-insertion at scale; enforces cost/SLO guardrails and capacity alignment.

Network Security Controls and Compliance Guardrails:

• Embeds zero-trust-aligned segmentation and policy frameworks; drives rulebase lifecycle and tech-debt reduction.
• Leads audit readiness and risk reduction programs with Security/GRC; implements policy-as-code and preventative controls.

Automation, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code:

• Institutionalizes IaC modules/collections and Git Ops; mandates code reviews, policy-as-code, testing, and safe deployment patterns (canary/auto-rollback).
• Sponsors platform/tooling investments; tracks and improves DORA metrics across teams.

Monitoring, Telemetry, and SLOs:

• Sets SLI/SLO policy for the group; ensures telemetry pipelines (SNMP/streaming, Net Flow/IPFIX, flow logs) support reliability, capacity, and security analytics.
• Chairs capacity/performance reviews; directs right-sizing, routing optimization, and placement decisions.

Cross-Team Collaboration and Operations Excellence:

• Leads cross-group incident response and complex changes; coordinates executive updates on high-importance matters.
• Influences adoption of standards across adjacent orgs; negotiates with vendors and partners within budget authority.

Documentation, Reviews, and Standards:

• Publishes group-level standards, reference architectures, and runbooks; ensures traceability to requirements and controls.
• Operates design/change councils across teams; drives consistent documentation quality and version control.

Core Responsibilities

Planning & Execution:

Oversees and guides multiple teams on managing complex projects or initiatives,…