Head of Network Engineering

The role

The Head of Network Engineering defines the technical direction, architectural standards, and engineering strategy for the company's service provider infrastructure. This role focuses on designing scalable and operationally sustainable systems across IP/MPLS backbone, Metro Ethernet, optical transport, and network security domains.

What you will do

• Defines the long-term architecture roadmap for the service provider network ecosystem
• Establishes technical standards and engineering principles across routing, transport, aggregation and security domains
• Ensures architectural consistency between backbone, access, transport and infrastructure security environments
• Defines scalability and resiliency strategies for infrastructure growth
• Guides technical decisions related to routing architecture, transport evolution and infrastructure expansion
• Drives engineering standardization across multi-vendor environments
• Promotes automation-first operational models to improve scalability, consistency and deployment velocity
• Collaborates closely with Automation, Operations, Expansion and Infrastructure teams
• Supports the evolution of provisioning, validation and infrastructure lifecycle methodologies
• Mentors and develops senior engineering talent across multiple technical domains

Required qualifications

• Strong experience designing and evolving large-scale service provider infrastructure environments
• CCIE/JNCIE-level expertise or equivalent real-world architectural depth
• Deep understanding of IP/MPLS backbone architectures and routing ecosystems
• Strong understanding of transport, aggregation and infrastructure networking domains
• Experience defining infrastructure standards and architectural principles
• Strong automation mindset focused on scaling network operations and infrastructure consistency
• Experience operating large-scale multi-vendor environments
• Strong troubleshooting and infrastructure problem-solving capabilities
• Experience guiding technical decisions across engineering organizations
• Strong documentation, standardization and operational rigor
• Ability to operate in fast-moving infrastructure growth environments

Nice to have

• Experience with automation frameworks and infrastructure APIs
• Experience scaling operational models in large service provider networks
• Familiarity with CI/CD or infrastructure lifecycle automation practices
• Experience with optical transport scaling strategies
• Exposure to infrastructure security and segmentation architectures
• Experience supporting multi-site or multi-data-center service provider environments
• Familiarity with telemetry, observability or infrastructure monitoring systems
• Experience leading engineering standardization initiatives across organizations

About the company

breakmark is building a next-generation service provider network designed to support large-scale infrastructure growth, operational scalability and long-term architectural evolution.