Remote Network Operations Lead – Automation & Reliability

AXON Networks; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote within North America

Job summary

AXON Networks seeks a Network Operations Manager to design and lead the operational‑excellence function for production services. This leader translates data into action, builds automation, and partners with Support, Operations, SRE, Engineering, DevOps, QA, Database Engineering, Product and Security to improve reliability.

The role is fully remote within North America, demands hands‑on leadership, and focuses on reducing toil and delivering durable improvements across the distributed tech stack.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience supporting or operating large‑scale production environments.
• 8+ years across technology operations, production operations, reliability, service management or related disciplines, incl. 3+ years leading people or cross‑functional programs.
• Experience supporting broadband, telecommunications, networking, or service provider solutions.
• Strong understanding of CPE including: Broadband Gateways, Residential Gateways, Router, ONTs, Wi‑Fi access points, Mesh networking solutions.
• Experience working with ISPs or telecommunications operators as customers.
• Experience partnering with software engineering teams responsible for embedded software, firmware, networking platforms, or cloud services.
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure including: GCP and OCI.
• Experience working closely with DevOps and Platform Engineering teams supporting CI/CD pipelines and production deployments.
• Experience supporting distributed microservice‑based applications running in Kubernetes or containerized environments.
• Strong understanding of production monitoring and observability platforms such as: Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk, ELK/OpenSearch
• Experience leading production incident response for customer‑facing services.
• Strong understanding of production networking concepts including: TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, Routing, VPN, Load Balancing, Firewalls
• Experience coordinating production changes across Engineering, DevOps, QA, Database Engineering, Cloud Engineering, and Security teams.
• Demonstrated success building or materially improving operational practices in a complex, customer‑facing production environment.
• Strong knowledge of incident, problem, change, service transition, observability, reliability and continuous‑improvement practices.
• Experience creating automation or tooling roadmaps and partnering with engineers to deliver measurable operational outcomes.
• Ability to define useful metrics, analyze trends and communicate decisions and risks clearly to technical and executive audiences.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, information systems, operations or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead the Operational Excellence function, including its operating model, roadmap, governance and talent.
• Own the automation and tooling strategy for Network Operations, prioritizing work that reduces manual effort, repeat incidents and operational risk.
• Define and govern operational-readiness criteria for new products, services and significant changes before production handoff.
• Create the metrics, management reviews and continuous-improvement mechanisms that improve reliability, efficiency and customer outcomes.
• Design and run the operational cadence: service reviews, reliability reviews, action tracking, risk reviews and executive reporting.
• Define standards, procedures, controls and ownership models across Support, Operations and Operational Excellence.
• Develop a maturity roadmap and prioritize improvements using service performance, operational risk and business impact.
• Lead root‑cause‑driven improvement programs and ensure corrective actions produce durable outcomes.
• Own the Network Operations automation and tools roadmap, intake process and value measurement.
• Guide Automation & Tools Engineers in building self‑service workflows, integrations, observability enhancements and safe operational automation.
• Measure automation impact through toil reduction, faster recovery, fewer errors and improved service consistency.
• Define production‑readiness standards covering observability, alerting, support model, runbooks, SLOs, capacity, resilience, security, recovery, ownership and escalation.
• Review and govern operational readiness for designs created by Engineering; identify gaps, risks and acceptance conditions before launch or handoff.
• Ensure the support and operation teams receive the knowledge, access, documentation, tooling and training required to support new services.
• Track readiness exceptions and post‑launch stabilization commitments to closure.
• Build dashboards and scorecards for availability, reliability, incident performance, change health, support quality, toil, automation value and improvement delivery.
• Translate operational data into clear priorities and decision‑ready reporting for the Director of Network Operations and executive stakeholders.
• Create mechanisms to capture lessons, standardize effective practices and sustain gains over time.
• Set clear outcomes, coach team members and build a culture of accountability, curiosity, service and continuous improvement.
• Influence across organizational boundaries and resolve competing priorities using data, customer impact and operational risk.
• Act as a trusted delegate to the Director of Network Operations for operational‑excellence initiatives and governance forums.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Data-driven decision making

Operational excellence mindset

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent

Tools

Grafana

Prometheus

Datadog

Splunk

ELK/OpenSearch

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Job description

AXON Networks seeks a Network Operations Manager to design and lead the operational‑excellence function for production services. This leader translates data into action, builds automation, and partners with Support, Operations, SRE, Engineering, DevOps, QA, Database Engineering, Product and Security to improve reliability.

The role is fully remote within North America, demands hands‑on leadership, and focuses on reducing toil and delivering durable improvements across the distributed tech stack.