Network & Infrastructure Manager

Overview

In this role you lead Wayve’s distributed network and site infrastructure team to enable reliable, secure connectivity across multiple sites and countries. You own the roadmap, drive multi-site network programs, and mentor engineers to become domain owners. You balance hands-on technical review with strategic execution, ensuring scalable automation and robust security posture. This position blends people leadership with hands-on engineering and regular travel to sites. You help shape a critical infrastructure backbone for Wayve’s autonomous driving platform.

Pay / Benefits

• Salaries benchmarked against market
• Equity/ownership opportunities
• Relocation support and visa sponsorship
• Hybrid working with core hours
• Learning and development budgets
• Comprehensive benefits: health, dental, parental leave, retirement, wellbeing

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a distributed network team across time zones, including hiring and performance management
• Own the network and site infrastructure roadmap, vendor relations, and delivery priorities
• Collaborate with a staff-level network engineer to translate direction into reliable results
• Engage in ~20% hands-on reviews, standards setting, and automation improvements
• Manage on-call rotations, P1 incidents, and post-incident actions
• Coordinate with Security, Cloud, and Workplace teams; travel to Europe, US, and Japan
• Deliver multi-year network replacement across sites with hardware standards and safe cutovers
• Design and operate local and wide area networks, wireless, firewalls, 802.1X, monitoring, and out-of-band management
• Shape end-to-end site builds including AV, meeting rooms, desk tech, and fit-out IT
• Improve connectivity between sites and cloud platforms with partner teams
• Automate manual infra work via infrastructure as code
• Deliver network security controls and evidence for assessments

Key requirements

• Led a network or infrastructure team across sites and time zones with hiring and performance management
• Deep hands-on enterprise networking experience across LAN/WAN, wireless, firewalls, and 802.1X-with cert-based access
• Experience with site infrastructure beyond networking (AV, meeting rooms, fit-outs)
• Comfort with infrastructure as code and network automation; ability to set and review standards
• Owned major network incidents and multi-site hardware programs with vendors
• Delivered network controls and evidence for security assessments (e.g., ISO 27001, SOC 2, or similar)
• Desire for a people-leadership role that includes hands-on engineering, on-call duties, and travel
• Experience with Juniper SRX and Mist, Azure or AWS hybrid connectivity, RADIUS, and certificate infrastructure (a plus)
• Familiarity with automotive supplier-security assessments (a plus)

• Leadership and people management
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Problem solving under pressure
• Enterprise networking (LAN/WAN, wireless, firewalls, 802.1X)
• Network automation and infrastructure as code
• Site infrastructure and AV/room systems

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