Engineering Manager/Network Team Lead

The role: Network Engineering Manager APAC / Network Team Lead APAC

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.

Crucially, this position demands a high degree of operational autonomy. Due to the timezone differences, you will serve as the primary regional networking authority, bridging global network architecture defined with our EU/EMEA/the US engineering headquarters and regional execution across APAC colocation sites, cable landings, and data centers.

This position is remote within the APAC region (with preferred hubs in India, Singapore), with regular visits to regional DC facilities and our European headquarters in Amsterdam.

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.