Sr. Director, Network and Data Center Engineering, Operations & AIOps

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc • San Jose, CA

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About The Position

AMD is seeking an experienced technology leader to lead its globally distributed Network Engineering and 24x7 Operations organization. The role is accountable for delivering a secure, resilient, and operationally excellent global data and voice network supporting more than 50,000 users and 300,000 endpoints.

The leader will evolve network operations toward an observability-first, AI-enabled model that is increasingly proactive, predictive, and automated. The position combines global team leadership, operational excellence, network strategy, financial management, and technology transformation. The successful candidate will work across technical, operational, and executive environments, lead through complex incidents and organizational change, build high-performing teams and partnerships, and translate technical challenges into business priorities.

The position is located in San Jose, California, and is not eligible for visa sponsorship. AMD may use artificial intelligence to help screen, assess, or select applicants.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Proven experience leading large, globally distributed network engineering and 24x7 operations organizations.
• Demonstrated success leading and developing high-performing technical teams in complex enterprise environments.
• Strong understanding of enterprise network architecture and operations, including LAN, data center networking, wireless, WAN, Internet routing, SD-WAN, WAN acceleration, and QoS.
• Knowledge of voice, video, telephony, unified communications, DNS/DHCP, IP address management, and F5 LTM/GTM load balancing.
• Experience with enterprise network management and observability technologies, including performance monitoring, streaming telemetry, SNMP/NetFlow, synthetic monitoring, and log analytics.
• Experience building and scaling observability platforms and data-driven network operations.
• Experience leading AI/AIOps and agentic automation initiatives within IT or network operations.
• Experience driving network automation across large-scale environments using technologies such as Python, Ansible, APIs, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Experience managing multiple complex network initiatives, technology budgets, vendors, service providers, and infrastructure lifecycle planning.
• Familiarity with ServiceNow Request, Incident, Problem, and Change Management processes.

Nice To Haves

• Understanding of network architecture and requirements supporting AI/HPC data center environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead a globally distributed team of approximately 90 employees and contractors responsible for network engineering and 24x7 operations.
• Own the performance, availability, security, and continuous improvement of AMD’s global data and voice network.
• Lead major network incidents and escalations, ensuring effective communication, root-cause resolution, and actions to prevent recurrence.
• Drive Incident, Change, and Problem Management practices to meet SLAs and improve network reliability and user experience.
• Define and execute the global network strategy and roadmap across infrastructure, lifecycle management, observability, automation, and AI-enabled operations.
• Own network observability strategy and capabilities, including Sigma and Optima, to provide actionable end-to-end visibility.
• Lead adoption of AI/AIOps and agentic automation for event correlation, anomaly detection, capacity planning, root-cause analysis, remediation, compliance, and knowledge management.
• Ensure network tools, automation, and operational knowledge improve efficiency, visibility, and time to resolution.
• Partner with Information Security, Engineering Compute & Storage, AI/HPC infrastructure, IT teams, service providers, and vendors to deliver secure, scalable network capabilities.
• Oversee concurrent network initiatives and communicate priorities, risks, progress, and operational performance to IT leadership.
• Manage global network budgets and forecasts covering hardware, software, support, labor, and connectivity services.
• Ensure network operations and AI technology use align with AMD security, governance, and operational requirements.

What This Job Offers

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