Principal Operations Engineer, Network

About the Role

Serve as the most senior technical authority for the operational network fleet across the hyperscale AI data center portfolio: switches, routers, cabling (copper and fiber), optics.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead site assessments and operational audits, and drive the technical readiness of the network ops team ahead of site activation.
• Review network platforms and integration designs from an operational lens, and feed learnings back into network engineering, deployment, and supply chain as the build model becomes productionized.
• Author, approve, and execute high-risk network MOPs and change records in live production, and lead fleet-wide root cause analysis on disruptions to closure.
• Hold OEMs, ODMs, and service vendors accountable to a standard, including flawed RMA and integration processes, without burning the relationship.
• Act as the connective tissue and force multiplier across network operations, network engineering, compute operations, facilities, supply chain, and customer-facing teams.
• Travel 50-75%.

Requirements

• You've spent a career operating mission-critical network topologies at scale, with significant time as the senior technical voice on a site, campus, or fleet.
• Experience in IP network operations, as well as optical networking.
• Experience with TCP/IP and network routing protocols (OSPF, IS-IS, BGP, MPLS) and the devices of the physical infrastructure.
• Authored and executed high-risk MOPs and led root cause analysis on significant network events through closure.
• Hold OEMs, ODMs, and deployment partners to a standard, and enforce it without breaking the relationship.
• Write clearly (health assessments, RCAs, design feedback) and teach, lifting the technical readiness of every team around you.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hyperscale or large HPC fleets supporting thousands of end points.
• Linux and hardware management tooling.
• Standing up new sites from handover to steady state.
• Scripting for fleet-scale operations.

Compensation & Benefits

• Compensation Range: $258K - $300K
• Total compensation may also include equity in the form of restricted stock units.
• Competitive total compensation package (salary + equity).
• Retirement or pension plan, in line with local norms.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Generous PTO policy, in line with local norms.