AI Infrastructure Network Engineering Lead

Cirrascale Cloud Services; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Retirement plan

Paid time off

Professional development

Job summary

Cirrascale Cloud Services seeks a Manager, Network Engineering to lead a small team of senior network engineers while staying deeply involved in design and execution. You will own the architecture of the internet edge, SD-WAN, and cloud interconnects to ensure SLA-backed connectivity across data centers and customer environments.

You will partner with the VP of Engineering to set technical direction, drive execution, and mentor the team, managing on-call procedures and complex network incidents.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in network engineering or related infrastructure roles.
• 2+ years leading a team of engineers (people management, team lead, or acting manager).
• Experience hiring, coaching and performance-management of technical staff.
• Ability to balance people management duties with hands-on technical work.
• Hands-on experience with multi-homed internet edge architectures >10Gbps throughput and routing policy design.

Responsibilities

• Manage, coach, and develop a small team of network engineers with regular 1:1s and performance reviews.
• Own hiring, onboarding, and growth of the team as network scale demands.
• Translate the roadmap into team goals, priorities, and execution plans; delegate work and remove blockers.
• Establish and manage on-call rotation, escalation paths, and operational rigor.
• Own relationships with upstream providers, peering partners, and key vendors, including escalations.
• Design, configure, and maintain SD-WAN, LAN, WAN, VPN, firewall, and switching/routing environments.
• Oversee InfiniBand fabrics deployment for GPU cluster infrastructure.
• Drive network telemetry and BGP monitoring to detect routing anomalies and DDoS conditions.

Skills

Network engineering

Team leadership

Hiring & coaching

Escalation & on-call

Routing protocol design

Network monitoring

Automation (Ansible Python)

OpenStack VMware k8s familiarity

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Tools

Cisco

Arista

SONiC

Fortinet

Nagios

Zabbix

Prometheus

Grafana

Ansible

Python

Job description

Cirrascale Cloud Services seeks a Manager, Network Engineering to lead a small team of senior network engineers while staying deeply involved in design and execution. You will own the architecture of the internet edge, SD-WAN, and cloud interconnects to ensure SLA-backed connectivity across data centers and customer environments.

You will partner with the VP of Engineering to set technical direction, drive execution, and mentor the team, managing on-call procedures and complex network incidents.