Senior Manager, Engineering. Reston LilyLifestyle

Infrastructure Leader

This role will be based in the New York, NY or Reston, VA office. Our team follows a hybrid schedule, working in the office three days a week and remotely for the rest.

Daily responsibilities include:

• Lead and develop one or more infrastructure teams spanning physical infrastructure, systems engineering, and operations.
• Drive planning, execution, and delivery of major infrastructure initiatives across data center and platform domains.
• Partner with product, security, architecture, and business stakeholders to align technical priorities with company goals.
• Establish operational excellence across incident response, postmortems, change management, and continuous improvement.
• Mentor engineers and technical leads through career development, feedback, and performance management.
• Own hiring and team growth with a focus on building diverse, high‑performing teams.
• Champion automation, observability, documentation, and modern infrastructure practices.
• Act as a technical leader who guides design decisions while empowering engineers to execute.

You will live Nexxen’s values by being:

• Customer Centric – Prioritizing reliability, performance, and user experience.
• Curious Mindset – Constantly improving systems, tools, and processes.
• Collaborative Without Ego – Partnering openly across teams and sharing ownership of outcomes.

What you’ll focus on:

• Lead data center operations and architecture across on‑prem and colocation environments.
• Own standards for physical infrastructure including rack design, structured cabling, power distribution, cooling, and environmental monitoring.
• Oversee systems platforms including Linux environments, virtualization, provisioning, and lifecycle management.
• Drive capacity planning for compute, storage, and network resources.
• Guide network architecture and operations, including switching, routing, redundancy, and connectivity between data centers and cloud environments.
• Manage vendor relationships for hardware, colocation, networking, and support services.
• Ensure strong disaster recovery, resiliency, and business continuity practices.
• Expand automation for provisioning, configuration management, and operational workflows.
• Partner with security and compliance teams on physical and logical controls.

What you’ll bring:

• 8+ years of experience in infrastructure, systems, or data center engineering, with 3+ years in a leadership or management role.
• Strong hands‑on background in physical data center infrastructure, systems engineering, and operations.
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals and architecture (switching, routing, redundancy, traffic flows, and troubleshooting).
• Experience with Linux environments, virtualization platforms (VMware, KVM, Proxmox, etc.), and automation tools.
• Familiarity with observability platforms and reliability best practices.
• Proven ability to lead complex projects while developing engineers and technical leaders.
• Clear communicator across technical and business audiences.
• A leadership style rooted in curiosity, accountability, and collaboration.

In support of pay transparency and equity, the minimum and maximum full‑time annual base salary for this role is $180K - $210K at the time of posting. While this is our reasonable expectation this is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, actual compensation is influenced by a wide range of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, education, certifications, responsibility, and geographic location.

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location. We offer a variety of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, disability insurance, 401(k), EAP, parental leave, unlimited vacation, and company‑paid holidays. The specific programs and options available will vary depending on the state, start date, and employment type.