Senior Program Manager, Network Infrastructure
San Francisco, United States · Remote · Full-time
- Posted 1mo ago
- From Fastly’s careers page
- Location
- San Francisco, United States
- Work mode
- Remote
- Type
- Full-time
- Level
- Senior
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Department
- Project and Program Management
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About the role
What You'll Do:
- Drive the end-to-end development and execution of build and deployment plans.
- Lead complex, large-scale infrastructure projects, including new site builds, site augments, and decommissioning efforts.
- Orchestrate cross-functional collaboration between Infrastructure Acquisition Managers, Network Operations, Supply Chain, Data Center Engineering, Finance, Legal, and other partners, ensuring clear accountability and successful delivery.
- Establish and maintain reporting frameworks to provide transparent visibility on deployment timelines, risks, and project health to stakeholders across the organization.
- Proactively identify critical path bottlenecks, risks, and blockers, escalating issues with data-driven mitigation strategies.
- Analyze project workflows to identify and implement opportunities for standardizing and automating processes, ensuring faster and more reliable infrastructure delivery.
- Manage vendor and partner relationships to ensure the timely procurement and delivery of critical hardware and services.
- Collaborate as a core member of a high-impact team dedicated to building and scaling the world’s most performant edge computing network.
What We're Looking For:
- Proven track record of at least 5-7+ years driving large-scale infrastructure programs within cloud services, CDN, OTT, data center, or telecommunications environments.
- Technical fluency in data center and network infrastructure architecture, including power specifications, hardware deployment, and physical layer components.
- Experience working in a Production Engineering environment with a focus on Network Engineering, Acquisition, or Delivery.
- Proficiency in advanced project management tools (Jira, Confluence, Smartsheet) and data visualization to track milestones and capacity.
- Experience in process analysis and improvement to drive operational efficiency and standardization.
- Experience with global capacity planning, supply chain logistics, and managing hardware deployment lifecycles.
- Strong stakeholder management, ability to navigate ambiguity, and the leadership to drive consensus across diverse engineering teams.
- Experience in incident management or post-mortem analysis to improve long-term system reliability.
- Ability to translate complex technical requirements into actionable project roadmaps for non-technical stakeholders.
We’ll be super impressed if you have experience in any of these:
- PMP or other project management certification
- Experience with Dell and Hyve hardware
- Experience with Arista and Ciena networking hardware
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About Fastly
Edge cloud services for faster, safer applicationsFastly provides an edge cloud platform for content delivery, application security, compute, and real-time visibility for websites and applications.
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