# Engineering Manager/Network Team Lead

**Company**: Nebius
**Location**: Singapore
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are looking for a Staff Network Engineer / Player-Coach Team Lead to lead the growth, deployment, and operational execution of our APAC Network Infrastructure emerging team.

In this role, you will combine direct people leadership with high-end technical expertise. You will lead a growing regional team of 2–5 jun/mid-to-senior network engineers, driving their professional development, cross-project prioritization across our Global Network, and overall execution aligned with global business objectives, with a priority on the APAC Region and backbone network development across EU and the US for APAC.

As a hands-on technical manager, you will remain deeply embedded in engineering execution, dedicating approximately 50–70% of your time to hands-on engineering during your first year, with the role evolving naturally alongside organizational scale and regional team expansion.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Team Leadership & People Management

- Deploy APAC network part and BackBone. Lead, mentor, and structurally develop a regional engineering team of 2–5 jun/mid-to-senior network engineers across the APAC.

- Own regional task planning, backlog prioritization, change review governance, and end-to-end execution within the team.

- Drive and owning the Launch and Deploy process of New DataCentre and Customer in it

- Drive technical coaching, and personalized career roadmaps for team members.

- Foster a disciplined culture of radical ownership, engineering excellence, comprehensive runbook documentation, and Git-driven automation.

- Act as the regional net escalation point for production network incidents

- Global Follow-the-Sun Alignment: Co-own operational hand-off workflows and shared incident coverage with EMEA (HQ in Amsterdam) and the US network teams to guarantee seamless, round-the-clock global production network stability and customer workability.

- Cross-Functional Alignment & Strategic Autonomy

- Serve as the primary regional network owner for the next teams in APAC: datacenter operations team, site expansion teams.

- EU/EMEA Coordination: Actively partner with the Global Network Architecture and R&D to adapt core architectural standards (Clos fabrics, SRv6, backbone routing policies) to APAC market realities and carrier ecosystems.

- Autonomously drive regional connectivity delivery: partner closely with Technical Program Managers (TPMs) on submarine cable systems, cross-border DCI circuits, local Internet Exchanges (IXs), and regional transit providers.

- Coordinate with HWaaS, Compute, and Cloud Platform engineering teams to guarantee timely site bring-up, Day-0 Out-of-Band (OOB) readiness, and high-throughput fabric availability for production workloads.

- Bridge the gap between global strategic roadmaps and autonomous local incident resolution, ensuring APAC operations execute reliably during EMEA off-hours.

- Technical Leadership & Hands-on Work (50–60%)

- Full Regional Network Ownership: Own and guarantee overall network infrastructure readiness, capacity, and availability across emerging APAC network infrastructure, ensuring alignment with HQ blueprints and processes

- Actively contribute to the design, deployment, and operation of massive data center fabrics and backbone infrastructure.

- Support and participate in the evolution high-performance Ethernet-based GPU cluster interconnects.

- Participate in complex, high-severity troubleshooting and root-cause analysis (RCA) for critical infrastructure incidents.

- Oversee and contribute to network automation pipelines, tooling, and telemetry/observability development.

We expect you to have:

- Expert-Level Technical Background:

- Service Provider or/and Data Center Clos networks.

- BGP, IS-IS, Segment Routing (SR-MPLS / SRv6), and advanced traffic balancing

- Ethernet switching, EVPN-VXLAN architectures, and L3 VPNs.

- Leadership Experience: Proven track record as a Tech Lead, Lead/Staff Engineer, or People Manager leading mid-to-senior engineering teams.

- Vendor Ecosystem: Juniper, Arista, Cisco, NVIDIA

It will be an added bonus if you have:

- Hands-on experience with GPU cluster, RoCEv2/ECN or InfiniBand networks

- Solid understanding of Public Cloud networking models and Software-Defined Networking (SDN) overlays.

- Proficiency in Python or Go for infrastructure automation and production tooling within Linux environments.

Benefits & Perks:

- Competitive compensation

- Career growth and learning opportunities

- Flexibility and ownership

- Collaborative and innovative culture

- Opportunity to work on impactful AI projects

- International environment and talented teams

## Skills

### Required
- BGP
- IS-IS
- Segment Routing (SR-MPLS / SRv6)
- Ethernet switching
- EVPN-VXLAN architectures
- L3 VPNs
- Juniper
- Arista
- Cisco
- NVIDIA

### Nice to have
- GPU cluster
- RoCEv2/ECN or InfiniBand networks
- Public Cloud networking models
- Software-Defined Networking (SDN) overlays
- Python
- Go

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