Delivery Manager

DRIVENETS • Middletown Township, NJ

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

DriveNets is a leader in large-scale networking solutions for AI infrastructure and service providers. The company’s disaggregated networking architecture transforms the economics of large-scale infrastructures while maximizing performance, utilization, and operational efficiency. Its high-performance AI fabric maximizes GPU utilization and accelerates deployments by optimizing the AI stack end-to-end, resulting in higher tokens-per-second and lower cost-per-token. DriveNets’ solutions power production networks for global tier-1 operators like AT&T and Comcast, and scale multi-vendor AI infrastructures at foundation model labs, NeoClouds, and enterprises.

DriveNets seeks a highly technical Delivery Manager to work based out of their Middletown, NJ office managing a large-scale OSS project with our service provider customer, AT&T, on site. This is a highly customer-facing and strategic role. The selected candidate will drive day-to-day activities of the network engineering delivery function and manage and grow a team of highly experienced network engineers. You will act as a trusted technical advisor bridging business and technical strategy for the customer.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Telecommunications, Networking, or closely related, or foreign equivalent;
• At least 7 years in a network engineering or networking implementation engineering role or a closely related field;
• At least 2 years of managing a network engineering team of 2 or more
• Experience working with Cisco & Juniper networking technology, internet protocol networking, and standard routing protocols
• Experience managing networking technology implementation and monitoring in large scale complex networks, preferably service providers, telecom, cable, or enterprise networks.
• 7+ years of experience in Quality Assurance, software validation, or a related technical role within Service Provider environments.
• Proven working knowledge of networking protocols and technologies (e.g., BGP, MPLS, IPv4/IPv6, SR, VPN).
• Solid experience with Docker, Kubernetes, virtualization (KVM, VMware), and cloud environments (AWS/Azure).
• Skilled in scripting and automation frameworks/tools such as Ansible for configuration management.
• Proficiency in a Linux environment shell, Bash scripting
• Proficient in Python scripting
• Experience working within Agile development methodologies and CI/CD practices.
• Hands on experience with integration technologies (APIs) such as REST API, RESTCONF, Netconf, gRPC, SOAP, etc.
• Solid understanding of modeling languages such as JSON, YANG, YAML, and XML.
• Familiarity with microservices architectures and associated testing strategies.
• Real-world experience providing technical leadership on network implementation projects
• Problem solving, troubleshooting, reviewing log files, debugging. Being self-sufficient, but also helpful with peers.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, capable of effectively engaging with customers and internal teams.
• Soft Skills: Take charge attitude, Assertive but not aggressive, Ability to lead teams and act as a mentor

Nice To Haves

• Working knowledge of JSON and Jinja2 templating.
• Hands-on experience with Git for version control and collaborative development workflows.
• CCIE or JNCIE certification (1 would be desired)

Responsibilities

• Manage and Grow the Engineering Team: Directly manage a US-based team of highly experienced network engineers, providing deep technical guidance, mentoring, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and engineering excellence.
• Customer-Facing Technical Advisor: Act as the primary, customer-oriented technical point of contact for AT&T, building strong relationships, addressing unique network use cases, and bridging business goals with complex technical strategies.
• Lead Technical Execution: Direct the end-to-end technical execution of large-scale OSS projects, directly overseeing architecture implementation, solution validation, and production readiness.
• Maintain and implement SLA to provide network services that meet specific performance metrics.
• Monitor and analyze network performance and reports on data input or output to detect problems and identify use of computing resources.
• Configure and troubleshoot Routers, Switches, and Firewalls.
• Develop specifications and technical documentation from customer requirements.
• Oversee and perform detailed functional, integration, performance, and reliability testing.
• Oversee and manage the Automate testing and deployment processes using scripting (Bash, Python) and automation tools (Terraform, Ansible).
• Design scalable, secure, and maintainable workflows, leveraging cloud networking experience where applicable.
• Documentation skills to be used externally with customers and internally with systems including Confluence spaces and Jira tickets.
• Deliver customer-facing projects (~30-40% client interaction) and effectively demonstrate validated OSS solutions, including solution validation, acceptance testing, and problem resolution, following Agile methodologies.
• Prepare network-related documentation.
• Prepare design presentations and proposals for customer, and demonstrate proof of concept to customer.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level