# Lead Director, AI Network & Data Center Engineering

**Company**: CVS Health
**Location**: New York, NY
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $144,200.00 - $288,400.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We're building a world of health around every individual , shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience.

The Lead Director, AI Network & Data Center Engineering is responsible for leading the strategy, design, and delivery of the organization's network infrastructure supporting enterprise applications and next-generation AI/ML workloads.

**Responsibilities**

- Development & Enforcement:

- Define and enforce network architecture standards, security controls, and compliance policies

- Establish best practices for configuration, deployment, and operations

- Ensure alignment with enterprise governance frameworks (HIPAA, NIST, PCI, HITRUST, CSA)

- Collaboration & Expertise:

- Advise executives on network strategy, roadmaps, emerging technologies, and industry trends

- Partner with cross-functional teams (platform, cloud, security, infrastructure) to deliver integrated, secure and scalable solutions

- Engage vendors on solution architectures, design, contracts, and delivery

- Analysis & Configuration:

- Design and implement data center fabrics (leaf-spine, Clos, EVPN/VXLAN)

- AI/GPU-optimized networking (low latency, high throughput) and related technologies

- Optimize performance for GPU workloads (RDMA, RoCE, ECN, PFC)

- GCP and multi-cloud network architectures

- Routing & switching (BGP, OSPF, MPLS, STP; Cisco, Juniper, Arista)

- High-speed networking (100/200/400Gb+)

- GPU cluster networking, traffic optimization, and congestion management

- Drive network monitoring and performance optimization (SolarWinds, NetFlow, Wireshark)

- Support SaaS and multi-tenant environments with zero trust patterns

- Operational Support:

- Oversee 24/7 network operations across cloud and data centers

- Lead incident response and ensure high availability, resiliency and scalability across network and cloud environments

- Mentorship & Training:

- Build and mentor high-performing engineering teams

- Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous learning

- Innovation and Research:

- Advance networking capabilities for AI/ML infrastructure and GPU clusters (NVIDIA architectures)

- High-performance networking (RoCE, PFC, ECN)

- Champion automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

- Contribute to industry and open-source initiatives

- Strategic Planning:

- Own network architecture strategy and roadmap

- Define standards for AI, cloud, and data center environments

- Support budgeting, risk management, and long-term planning

**Requirements**

- 10+ years' experience in network and/or data center engineering

- 5+ years' experience in a strategic leadership position with people management

- 5+ years' experience in large scale enterprise environments

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Strong expertise in large-scale data center design, security, and high availability

- Advanced problem-solving, execution, and stakeholder management skills

- Experience with AI factory / GPU cluster environments at scale

- Enterprise networking, Cisco Nexus/ACI or similar platforms

- Network automation / IaC, SDN, service mesh, and cloud-native security frameworks

- High availability/disaster recovery design and cyber resilience

- Certifications: CCIE/CCNP, PCNSE, CISSP, Cloud networking

**Pay Range**

$144,200.00 - $288,400.00

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## Skills

### Required
- network architecture
- data center engineering
- AI/ML
- cloud computing
- network security

### Nice to have
- large-scale data center design
- AI factory / GPU cluster environments
- enterprise networking
- network automation / IaC
- high availability/disaster recovery design

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