Senior Manager, Network & Cloud Architecture
Core
Lead the physical and logical network fabric powering AI-first cloud infrastructure, managing a multi-team organization across Edge, Backbone, Data Center, and SDN/Cloud domains to support massive GPU clusters.
Role type
Senior Manager, Network & Cloud Architecture
Builds
Coherent, low-latency, high-throughput network fabric optimized for hyperscale AI/HPC workloads
Domain
AI Infrastructure / Cloud Networking / Data Center
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Network architecture strategy, multi-domain network fluency (Edge/Backbone/DC/SDN), SDN and cloud-native networking, technical organization scaling, stakeholder influence, cross-domain tradeoff arbitration
Preferred skills
Hyperscaler leadership experience, GPU training infrastructure leadership, SONiC/P4/Network verification tools, Open-source networking contributions
Technologies
SDN controllers, Kubernetes CNIs, RDMA (RoCEv2/InfiniBand), BGP, MPLS/Segment Routing, Optical transport, GitOps, Kubernetes networking, VPCs, Load balancers
Responsibilities
Own company-wide architecture strategy connecting all four network domains; Arbitrate high-stakes tradeoffs between domains; Establish engineering standards and design review processes; Set north star for PoP design and peering; Set game plan for long-haul/core network design; Set strategic direction for spine-leaf fabric and SDN control plane; Champion intent-based networking and declarative configuration; Partner with Product and Hardware leadership to align roadmaps; Align software and operations teams on execution
Seniority
Senior Manager, people leadership with deep technical ownership
