Senior Director, Network Engineering

Job Description

Lead a Network Engineering group responsible for data center, backbone/edge, and cloud networking. You develop strategies and plans that drive company-level reliability, security, performance, and cost outcomes. Own revenue/budget accountability across the group, partner with executive leadership on direction, and lead negotiations and briefings on issues of organizational significance. 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

Lead a Network Engineering group responsible for data center, backbone/edge, and cloud networking. You develop strategies and plans that drive company-level reliability, security, performance, and cost outcomes. Own revenue/budget accountability across the group, partner with executive leadership on direction, and lead negotiations and briefings on issues of organizational significance. 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

• Defines multi-year architecture for fabrics, backbone/edge, IPv6-first, failure domains, traffic engineering, and Anycast; approves enterprise standards.
• Sponsors cross-org modernization initiatives and major migrations; sets governance for MOP/rollback, verification, and change risk.

• Establishes enterprise blueprints for VPC/VCN, transit/peering, Private Link/service endpoints, NAT, hybrid and inter-cloud; ensures consistency across regions and sovereign/regulated environments.
• Sets policy for L4/L7 platforms and service insertion with SLO/cost targets; aligns placement and capacity strategies with business growth.

• Defines group-wide zero-trust strategy, segmentation, encryption, and DDoS/WAF posture; approves risk exceptions.
• Ensures global audit readiness; drives preventative controls and evidence automation in partnership with Security/GRC.

• Governs network-as-code strategy; funds and prioritizes IaC, Git Ops, policy-as-code, and validation platforms.
• Sets target DORA and reliability metrics; ensures adoption across teams and holds leaders accountable.

• Establishes SLI/SLO governance and observability strategy; integrates telemetry sources for reliability, capacity, and security analytics at scale.
• Leads capacity governance and long-horizon forecasting; directs POP/DC placement, interconnect/peering policy, and cost optimization.

• Leads executive communications for high-severity incidents; ensures durable remediations and cross-org learning.
• Drives cross-organization programs and vendor strategy; negotiates major contracts and partnerships.

• Approves enterprise reference architectures, standards, and runbooks; ensures documentation quality and control evidence across regions.
• Chairs architecture and change councils; institutionalizes lessons learned and continuous improvement.

• Provides strategic oversight on the management and execution of large-scale projects or initiatives, monitoring timelines, deliverables, and budgets when applicable to ensure success. Sets strategies for appropriately delegating work, setting priorities, and aligning projects with business needs. Drives the strategic planning process across teams, providing guidance on resources or timelines in anticipation of changes.

• Sets a strategic direction for collaborating…