Network & Infrastructure Manager

Overview

As Network & Infrastructure Engineering Manager at Wayve, you lead a distributed team across sites in six countries to deliver a multi-year network upgrade and support site infrastructure. You balance hands-on engineering with people leadership, owning roadmaps, vendor relations, and incident response. You partner with Security, Cloud, and Workplace teams to scale secure, automated, cloud-integrated networks. This role combines strategic ownership with hands-on engineering in a fast-moving AI mobility company.

Pay / Benefits

• salary benchmarking
• meaningful equity
• relocation support and visa sponsorship
• hybrid working with core hours
• learning and development budgets
• comprehensive benefits (health, dental, maternity/paternity)

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a distributed engineering team across time zones
• Own the network and site infrastructure roadmap and vendor relationships
• Collaborate with staff-level network engineer to translate direction into reliable delivery
• Contribute ~20% hands-on work: design reviews, standards, and automation
• Participate in on-call rotation and drive incident corrective actions
• Partner with Security, Cloud and Workplace teams across Europe, the US and Japan
• Deliver multi-year network replacement across sites with cross-site coordination
• Build and operate local and wide area networks, wireless, firewalls, and 802.1X controls
• Shape end-to-end site deployments including AV, meeting rooms and desk IT
• Automate infrastructure as code and provide network security controls and evidence for assessments

Key requirements

• Led a network or infrastructure team across sites/time zones
• Deep hands-on enterprise networking experience (LAN/WAN, wireless, firewalls, 802.1X)
• Experience with site infrastructure beyond network (AV, meeting rooms, fit-outs)
• Comfort with infrastructure as code and network automation
• Owned major network incidents and multi-site hardware programs with vendors
• Delivered network controls and evidence for security assessments (e.g., ISO/SOC2/TISAX)
• Desire for a people-leadership role with hands-on engineering and travel

• leadership
• cross-functional collaboration
• communication
• enterprise networking (LAN/WAN)
• wireless networking
• firewalls

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