wayve - Network & Infrastructure Manager

• Lead, hire and develop a distributed team, helping engineers grow into domain owners. • Own the roadmap, delivery priorities and vendor relationships for our network and site infrastructure. • Work with our staff-level network engineer to turn technical direction into reliable delivery. • Stay hands-on for roughly 20% of your week, reviewing designs, setting engineering standards and improving automation. • Take part in the network on-call rotation, own P1 escalations and drive corrective actions after incidents. • Partner with Security, Cloud and Workplace colleagues, with regular travel to our sites in Europe, the US and Japan.⁠ • 🧩 What you’ll be working on • Delivering an approved, multi-year network replacement across our sites, including hardware standards, vendor coordination and safe cutovers. • Building and operating local and wide area networks, wireless, firewalls, certificate-based 802.1X network access control, monitoring and out-of-band management. • Shaping new sites end to end: network connectivity, audio-visual systems, meeting rooms, desk technology and fit-out IT. • Improving connectivity between our sites and cloud platforms, in partnership with the team that owns those platforms. • Turning manual infrastructure work into repeatable automation and infrastructure as code. • Delivering network security controls and evidence that support customer requirements and security assessments. • 🙌 You should apply if • You’ve led a network or infrastructure team across sites and time zones, including hiring, performance management and developing engineers. • You bring deep hands-on enterprise networking experience across local and wide area networks, wireless, firewalls and certificate-based 802.1X. • You’ve owned site infrastructure beyond the network, such as AV, meeting rooms, fit-outs or new-site builds. • You’re comfortable with infrastructure as code and network automation, and can set standards and review your team’s work. • You’ve owned major network incidents and delivered multi-site hardware programmes with vendors and resellers. • You’ve delivered network controls and evidence for TISAX, ISO 27001, SOC 2 or an equivalent security assessment. • Experience with Juniper SRX and Mist, Azure or AWS hybrid connectivity, RADIUS and certificate infrastructure, or automotive supplier-security assessments would be a plus.⁠ • 🌱 Not ticking every box? That’s totally okay! If you’re passionate about autonomy and keen to learn, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every requirement.