Senior Manager Network Infrastructure

Akamai Technologies GmbH; Cambridge, Northern (MA, KY); Hybrid; USD 132,000 - 238,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

FlexBase program

Job summary

Akamai is seeking a Senior Manager, Network Infrastructure, to lead the global Network Implementation Management team and drive delivery excellence across circuits and data center interconnections. You will partner with Network Engineering, Strategy, Architecture, NOCC, and other Infra teams to enable scale and AI Cloud readiness.

You will oversee multiple countries, drive standardized hand-offs, and push automation to improve throughput while maintaining a strong focus on people development and

Qualifications

• 10 years relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Engineering, MIS, or related field
• Extensive experience with telecommunications and data center vendors
• Strong track record of employee development and engagement
• Drive for process improvement
• Experience guiding teams through process changes and realignments

Responsibilities

• Managing a team of Network Implementation Managers across six countries
• Overseeing 2500+ circuit deployment projects annually
• Establishing relationships with key bandwidth vendors globally
• Maintaining cross-connect assets and COGS responsibility for disconnects
• Leading initiatives to standardize processes and drive efficiency and automation
• Integrating provisioning tasks into the team’s responsibilities

Skills

Team leadership

Vendor management

Process improvement

Network infrastructure

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or MIS

Tools

Siebel

Job description

Do you have a passion for interconnecting data centers globally?

Would you enjoy building high use and highly critical global platform infrastructures?

Join our Network Infrastructure team!

Our Network Infrastructure team is focused on the deployment, shipping, importation, maintenance, and deconstruction of Akamai's assets in data centers. Network Implementation Managers specifically manages projects to add or remove the circuits that interconnect all Akamai locations globally.

Partner with the best

As a Senior Manager, Network Infrastructure, you will be responsible for heading our global Network Implementation Management team. You will maintain a strong employee focus inline with Akamai's culture. You will also balance both the transaction and transformational needs of Akamai to prepare the team for Akamai's expansion into AI Cloud.

As a Senior Manager Network Infrastructure, you will be responsible for:

• Managing a team of Network Implementation Managers (NIM) across six countries overseeing 2500+ circuit deployments projects annually
• Establishing relationships with key bandwidth vendors globally
• Overseeing cleanliness of circuits and cross-connect assets, including COGS responsibility related to the timely disconnect of purchased assets
• Maintaining strategic relationships with leadership across Network Engineering, Network Strategy, Network Architecture, NOCC, Network Expense, and all teams within Infrastructure
• Leading major initiative to shift patch panel management to Siebel from manual records
• Focusing on standardization of processes (including hand-offs) to drive greater delivery volume through efficiency and automation
• Integrating provisioning engineering tasks into the team's skill set and responsibility

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 10 years relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Management Information Systems, another related field or its equivalent experience
• Have extensive experience working with telecommunications and data center vendors
• Have a track record of solid employee development and engagement
• Possess a drive for process improvement
• Have experience guiding teams through process changes and realignments

About us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.
Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.
At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.

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We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.

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Compensation

Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $132,100 - $237,900/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.

Job Info

• Job Identification 3566
• Locations 145 Broadway, Cambridge, MA, 02142, US (Remote)