Director Network

We are Subway Headquarters! A dedicated team of professionals supporting thousands of franchisees around the globe.

At Subway, we are not standing still. We are building.

This is a business focused on what matters most: growing franchisee profitability, strengthening our brand and creating long‑term value. The people who thrive here are the ones who want to make a real impact.

You will not just do the work. You will shape it.

We move fast. We think like owners. We make decisions that matter. We hold ourselves to a high standard because what we do directly impacts thousands of franchisees around the world.

If you bring energy, accountability and a bias for action, you will fit right in.

We take the work seriously, but we also know the best results come from teams that support each other, celebrate wins and show up ready to build something better every day.

This is your chance to be part of what’s next.

About the Role:

The Director of Network is a senior technology leader responsible for the strategy, architecture, and operational excellence of Subway’s enterprise network infrastructure. Reporting to the Sr. Director of Platform Engineering, this role owns the end‑to‑end lifecycle of WAN/LAN, SD‑WAN, ZTNA, DNS, and load balancing across corporate, cloud (Azure and AWS), and franchise restaurant environments. The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise in network engineering and multi‑cloud networking with a strong infrastructure‑as‑code foundation, proven leadership of blended teams (FTE and managed‑service providers), and the ability to translate infrastructure investments into business outcomes for a global franchise brand.

Responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Define and execute the enterprise network strategy spanning corporate WAN/LAN, SD‑WAN (Silver Peak/Aruba Edge Connect), restaurant connectivity, data center interconnects, next‑generation firewall platforms (Palo Alto Networks — PAN-OS, Panorama), and cloud networking across Azure (vNET, Express Route, Azure Firewall, NSGs) and AWS (Transit Gateway, VPC, Direct Connect, Security Groups).
• Own the ZTNA roadmap, evaluating and implementing zero trust network access solutions to replace legacy VPN architectures and align with Zero Trust principles.
• Design and maintain DNS, DHCP, IPAM (DDI), load balancing, and traffic management architectures to support high availability and performance across corporate and franchise environments.
• Partner with Cyber Security leadership to ensure network segmentation, micro‑segmentation, and firewall policies meet regulatory and compliance requirements.
• Drive cloud‑native network architecture across Azure and AWS, including hub‑and‑spoke topologies, shared services models, and automated network provisioning through infrastructure‑as‑code.

• Lead the adoption and maturation of Terraform as the primary tool for managing network infrastructure across cloud and on‑premises environments; enforce IaC standards, module governance, and state management practices across the team.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for network configuration deployment using Git Hub Actions or Azure Dev Ops, enabling automated testing, validation, and promotion of network changes.
• Extend automation primarily through Terraform, supplementing with lightweight scripting (Python, Ansible, or equivalent) only where Terraform alone can’t close the gap — eliminating manual operations toil, accelerating incident response, and improving consistency across the network estate.
• Champion an automation‑first engineering culture across the network team — systematically identifying and eliminating repetitive manual tasks through scripting, tooling, and self‑service capabilities.
• Implement automated drift detection and remediation pipelines to ensure cloud network configurations remain consistent with declared infrastructure state.

• Own the multi‑cloud network architecture and operations across Azure and AWS, ensuring consistent security posture, routing design, and…