Network Engineering Manager

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🤠 Texas – Remote

🤠 Texas – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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IREN

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201 - 500 employees

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🤝 B2B

⚡ Energy

Artificial Intelligence • B2B • Energy

IREN is a provider of purpose-built, high-performance AI data centers and GPU cloud services across North America. IREN develops, owns and operates large, power-dense facilities designed for demanding AI training and inference workloads, offering turnkey data centers, colocations for customer hardware, and managed GPU cloud access. The company emphasizes vertical integration, 24/7 onsite support, and powering its facilities with 100% renewable energy (including RECs). IREN currently lists six North American locations (including Sweetwater, Childress, Oklahoma, Prince George, Mackenzie, and Canal Flats), with secured power capacity of about 5 GW, several hundred to thousands of MW per site in operational, under-construction, and in-development stages, and roughly 4,900 acres of secured land for AI infrastructure.

📋 Description

• Lead, coach and develop a team of around 12 network engineers • Hold regular 1:1s, set clear goals and provide honest, timely feedback • Own hiring for the US team, including headcount planning, structured interviews, technical assessments and candidate closing • Build a learning culture through design reviews, peer configuration and code reviews, blameless post-incident reviews, internal knowledge sharing and vendor training or certification support • Plan team capacity across concurrent builds and operational work • Balance workload, travel and on-call responsibilities and cross-train team members • Own network delivery for US AI data center builds from design and bill of materials through installation, cabling, configuration, validation and handover • Work with technical program managers, construction, electrical, data center operations and vendors on schedules, rack layouts, cabling plans and readiness • Raise delivery risks early and provide options • Set and enforce standards for change control, documentation, acceptance testing and operational handover • Report on delivery and team health, including build progress, acceptance test results, incident trends, automation coverage, hiring and retention

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years in network engineering, including at least 3 years directly managing engineers, including hiring, performance reviews and career development • Track record of developing engineers through hiring, coaching and promotion • Experience growing a technical team through hiring, structured interviews, technical assessments and onboarding • Deep hands-on experience in large-scale data center networks • Knowledge of Layer 2/3 technologies including VLANs, VXLAN, BGP EVPN, OSPF and IS-IS • Experience with Clos/ECMP fabric design • Experience delivering network builds for new data centers or major expansions against fixed dates • Ability to work with construction, electrical and operations teams • Excellent written and verbal communication • Strong ownership mindset and a great attitude • Based in the US • Able to travel regularly to data center sites • Able to work flexible hours during critical builds and incidents • Desirable: AI/HPC networking, including NVIDIA InfiniBand, Spectrum-X, RoCEv2, PFC, ECN and lossless fabric tuning • Desirable: Understanding of NVLink/NVSwitch • Desirable: NVIDIA, Arista, Cisco, Dell and Fortinet hardware and operating systems • Desirable: Cumulus Linux, SONiC, NX-OS and EOS • Desirable: Network automation and infrastructure as code using Python, Ansible, Terraform and Git/GitLab CI • Desirable: Fiber and optical infrastructure, including single-mode/multimode, DWDM/CWDM, and structured cabling at scale • Desirable: Industry certifications such as CCIE, JNCIE or NVIDIA networking certifications • Collaborative across teams and time zones, including a global network engineering team

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual incentive bonus • Equity (long-term incentive) • 100% company paid health insurance premiums (medical, dental, and vision) for employees • 75% company paid coverage for dependents • Company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance • Voluntary life, critical illness, and accident coverage available • Health Savings Accounts (HSA) when combined with the High Deductible Health Plan • Employee Assistance Program and wellness resources • 401(k) retirement plan with company match • Access to financial planning and legal services • Paid Time Off (PTO) and paid holidays • Internal skills training and advancement pathways • Professional development to support certifications, continuing education, or role related training • Company events and team-building activities

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