Director, Network Capacity Automation

What You'll Do

• Own network capacity end to end — planning, delivery, turn-up and lifecycle — and be accountable for capacity landing ahead of demand
• Build and lead the organization that delivers it: hire, develop and retain engineers and the leaders who manage them, and design the team structure as the org grows
• Set the multi-year technical strategy for capacity automation to ensure it continually scales
• Convert manual process into durable software — the goal is a capacity pipeline that runs without heroics, not a better-organised set of runbooks
• Own the operational bar for your org: how capacity work is planned, reviewed, shipped, measured and learned from when it goes wrong
• Manage through leads and senior ICs, developing both — regular 1:1s, clear performance feedback, growth planning, and sponsorship of meaningful work
• Partner and support our Interconnect team who negotiate, acquire and coordinate on external connectivity
• Partner with Principal Engineers and technical leadership to maintain a high engineering bar across design, code quality and operational reliability
• Partner with Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Data Center Operations, Product and Finance to align capacity roadmaps, forecast demand and manage long-lead dependencies
• Represent your org's work and technical direction to senior leadership, and to enterprise customers and partners where appropriate
• Contribute to org-wide engineering process improvements — how we plan, how we ship, how we learn from incidents

You

• Have 8+ years of engineering management experience, including directly managing senior individual contributors
• Proven track record of building and scaling engineering organizations that deliver mission-critical, high-performance cloud connectivity serving millions of users
• Have a software engineering background — you've shipped production systems and can engage credibly on architecture, technical tradeoffs, and code quality
• Foster a data driven, automation first, high velocity organization
• Familiarity designing, building, scaling and operating large-scale networks
• Familiarity with how to build distributed systems and large-scale networking services
• Strong automation skills and track record accelerating a business delivery velocity on a large scale
• Have a track record of building high-performing teams in fast-moving, technically demanding environments
• Are skilled at translating ambiguous business and product goals into clear team priorities and executable engineering plans
• Show strong judgment about when to go deep technically, when to delegate, and when to escalate
• Track record of successful project and product delivery in fast-paced, high-pressure environments
• Excellent communicator both written and verbal. You leverage high quality written artifacts to inform high quality decision making and get approval on problems and solution opportunities

Nice to Have

• Experience in GPU cloud, HPC, or AI/ML infrastructure environments
• Deep familiarity with large-scale data center or cloud networking — fabric build-out, capacity modelling, or network supply chain
• Experience with infrastructure capacity forecasting and long-lead hardware planning
• Prior experience at a high-growth infrastructure or cloud company