Director, Global Network Reliability Engineering

Nvidia•Santa Clara, CA

47d

About The Position

NVIDIA is seeking a Director of Network Reliability Engineering within the Enterprise Networking organization in IT. As the #1 AI Company in the world builds and delivers infrastructure, join the Enterprise networking organization to lead NVIDIA's Network Reliability Engineering team. From Data Centers to Contract Manufacturing sites, this org builds them all. In this role, you will be responsible for NVIDIA's global network operations, ensuring reliability, scalability and efficiency goals are defined and met. You will be leading a team of network reliability engineers to bring in a data driven approach to operations, with focus on observability, well defined success metrics, and making continuous improvements. You will lead design and automation of all operations, provide architectural input based on outage patterns and observability trends and be the keeper of excellence in Networking. The successful candidate would be able to leverage an execution mindset to facilitate effective translation of strategic plans to incremental delivery of impact to the business. Structured thinking and problem-solving skills, along with exceptional communication abilities will be crucial for success in this role as you build strong teams that partner with engineering and operations teams across NVIDIA. The leader will join and lead global operations across several countries, covering all of NVIDIA's data centers, Labs, Super Labs, Offices and Contract Manufacturing sites.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, related technical field, or equivalent experience
Experience building and growing teams that are geographically distributed , appreciate local operations and bring in a global perspective, following standards.
Ability to do technical deep-dives into code, networking, operating systems, and storage, as well as being verbally and cognitively agile enough to hold your own in strategy discussions with NVIDIA's executive team and peer SMEs
Ability to identify trends and promote solutions that solve challenges efficiently across multiple product areas
Excellent innovative thinking, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
12+ overall years of experience with system design, network architecture, network engineering, and network operations and 7+ years Leadership of experience

Nice To Haves

Experience transforming network operations using software driven methods
Experience in a Hyperscale Cloud Service Provider (public facing or not)
Knowledge of SRE principles (observability, SLOs, SLIs, logging, etc)
Knowledge of software interface design & documentation for less technical end-users

Responsibilities

Your main focus will be maturing the current support model and processes to a more data driven, automated, SRE model.
Build an in-house team of reliability experts for networking support and operations from the existing outsourced SMES , providing leadership, direction, and strategy for a growing team.
Set the technical vision, strategy, and roadmap for network operations in partnership with the key infrastructure and partner teams.
Work across Network Architecture, Network engineering and partner well to establish run books, regular training sessions and ensure we build the network to be self-healing.
Work very well in understanding RCAs from events and incidents and work with our AI operations to enrich our observability tooling for better full stack view of the network to applications.
Influence the architecture of the Nvidia networks both on-prem and in the clouds.