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