Director, Network Engineering

Quick Facts

Director-level leadership for Network Engineering teams focused on hyperscale L3/L4 networking and cloud connectivity.

Own multi-quarter architecture roadmaps, drive improvements in reliability, security, and cost efficiency, and manage budget accountability.

Lead standards, automation, telemetry/SLOs, and cross-group incident/change execution.

Description

Lead one or more Network Engineering teams or a small group delivering hyperscale L3/L4 networking and cloud connectivity. Define tactical and strategic plans, drive cross-group improvements in reliability, security, and cost efficiency, and communicate progress and risks to leadership. Manage budget elements and accountability for meeting budget targets across the teams you lead, including coordination of the physical network platform lifecycle to ensure interoperable, cost- and power-efficient components that support reliable, secure, and compliant services at scale.

Responsibilities

• L3/L4 Network Topologies and Overlays: Define multi-quarter architecture roadmap for DC fabrics, routing policy, IPv6 strategy, failure domains, and traffic engineering across regions.

• Lead cross-team design reviews and modernization programs (e.g., EVPN/VXLAN/SDN upgrades); enforce MOP/rollback and verification standards.

• Cloud Networking Implementation and Operations: Standardize VPC/VCN topologies, transit/peering, PrivateLink/service endpoints, NAT, and inter-/multi-cloud connectivity.

• Optimize L4/L7 load balancing and service insertion at scale; enforce cost/SLO guardrails and capacity alignment.

• Network Security Controls and Compliance Guardrails: Embed zero-trust-aligned segmentation and policy frameworks; drive rulebase lifecycle and tech-debt reduction.

• Lead audit readiness and risk reduction programs with Security/GRC; implement policy-as-code and preventative controls.

• Automation, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code: Institutionalize IaC modules/collections and GitOps; mandate code reviews, policy-as-code, testing, and safe deployment patterns (canary/auto-rollback).

• Sponsor platform/tooling investments; track and improve DORA metrics across teams.

• Monitoring, Telemetry, and SLOs: Set SLI/SLO policy and ensure telemetry pipelines (SNMP/streaming, NetFlow/IPFIX, flow logs) support reliability, capacity, and security analytics.

• Chair capacity/performance reviews; direct right-sizing, routing optimization, and placement decisions.

• Cross-Team Collaboration and Operations Excellence: Lead cross-group incident response and complex changes; coordinate executive updates on high-importance matters.

• Influence adoption of standards across adjacent organizations; negotiate with vendors and partners within budget authority.

• Documentation, Reviews, and Standards: Publish group-level standards, reference architectures, and runbooks; ensure traceability to requirements and controls.

• Operate design/change councils across teams; drive consistent documentation quality and version control.

Benefits

US hiring range: $169,800 - $355,400 per year. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
• Paid time off (Flexible Vacation and accrued vacation rules)
• 11 paid holidays
• Paid sick leave
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• Voluntary benefits (auto, homeowner, pet insurance)

Disclaimer

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer/client-facing roles may require immunization/occupational health mandates and/or drug testing requirements.