Senior Director, Network Engineering

About the role

The Senior Director of Network Engineering will lead the evolution of OCI’s physical network infrastructure, driving the design, deployment, and expansion of our network global footprint. This role will also involve aligning our technology and trajectory with other physical and virtual network service teams, and will focus on performance optimization and innovation in the optical network's domain.

Responsibilities

• Drive the long-term strategy for Physical Network Engineering and contribute to the strategy for all of Networking, and adjacent Infrastructure organizations
• Lead execution roadmap for sub-teams, defining critical metrics to guide decision-making and prioritization
• Provide regular updates to executive management to influence the infrastructure portfolio
• Own network product definition and advancement in cooperation with the product teams
• Lead vendor and supplier management with depth to help negotiate needed supplies, pricing, hardware delivery, and software/OS delivery
• Mentor and coach for all area leaders, senior technical staff, program managers with the ability to extend influence beyond their team

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience
• Experience leading networking engineering architecture and design practices with needed programs, process improvement, and organizational management
• Thorough understanding of key networking technologies needed for cloud including: network design and fabrics, networking protocols, network automation, network telemetry and common hardware platforms
• Thorough understanding and ability to guide region/metro area networking, product partnerships, and business strategy
• Understanding of software design and ability to run and build software platforms and solutions
• 10+ years as a technical contributor (lead), manager and/or business leader
• Excellent organizational, verbal, and written communication skills

Qualifications

• Experience working in a large ISP or cloud provider environment
• Strong understanding of both network fabrics and optical transport
• Experience with AI infrastructure and workloads
• Experience with automation systems, framework design/use and deployment
• Knowledge of network security design, system performance characterization and testing
• Knowledge of data flow and telemetry design, deployment and operation
• Experience with standards work, regulatory work, demonstrated industry leadership, industry policy generation