Head of Network Engineering
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Head of Network Engineering defining scalable routing, transport, security, and automation architecture. Leading infrastructure standards for Somos Internet’s next-generation service-provider network.
Responsibilities:
- Define the long-term architecture roadmap for the service provider network ecosystem
- Establish technical standards and engineering principles across routing, transport, aggregation and security domains
- Ensure architectural consistency between backbone, access, transport and infrastructure security environments
- Define scalability and resiliency strategies for infrastructure growth
- Guide technical decisions related to routing architecture, transport evolution and infrastructure expansion
- Drive engineering standardization across multi-vendor environments
- Promote automation-first operational models to improve scalability, consistency and deployment velocity
- Collaborate closely with Automation, Operations, Expansion and Infrastructure teams
- Support the evolution of provisioning, validation and infrastructure lifecycle methodologies
- Drive documentation, engineering discipline and operational reproducibility across the organization
- Mentor and develop senior engineering talent across multiple technical domains
Requirements:
- Strong experience designing and evolving large-scale service provider infrastructure environments
- CCIE/JNCIE-level expertise or equivalent real-world architectural depth
- Deep understanding of IP/MPLS backbone architectures and routing ecosystems
- Strong understanding of transport, aggregation and infrastructure networking domains
- Experience defining infrastructure standards and architectural principles
- Strong automation mindset focused on scaling network operations and infrastructure consistency
- Experience operating large-scale multi-vendor environments
- Strong troubleshooting and infrastructure problem-solving capabilities
- Experience guiding technical decisions across engineering organizations
- Strong documentation, standardization and operational rigor
- Ability to operate in fast-moving infrastructure growth environments
- Preferred: experience with automation frameworks and infrastructure APIs
- Preferred: experience scaling operational models in large service provider networks
- Preferred: familiarity with CI/CD or infrastructure lifecycle automation practices
- Preferred: experience with optical transport scaling strategies
- Preferred: exposure to infrastructure security and segmentation architectures
- Preferred: experience supporting multi-site or multi-data-center service provider environments
- Preferred: familiarity with telemetry, observability or infrastructure monitoring systems
- Preferred: experience leading engineering standardization initiatives across organizations
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