Network Planning & Design Manager

The role

You will design connectivity for data centers, backbone routes, and customer interconnects. You will work with carrier engineers and equipment partners to translate requirements into infrastructure.

What you will do

• Develop physical and optical connectivity designs for data centers, points of presence, backbone routes and customer interconnects.
• Translate customer and network requirements into routes, capacity plans, equipment needs and acceptance criteria.
• Compare dark fiber, wavelength, internet transit and interconnection options.
• Validate route diversity and identify shared conduits, building entrances, fiber extensions and other dependencies.
• Work with carrier engineering teams to develop routes, extend reach and resolve coverage, site access or capacity constraints.
• Evaluate new and existing suppliers, gather technical proposals and budgetary quotes.
• Work with optical and network equipment partners on alternatives.
• Give Supply Chain a defined technical scope for negotiations and contracting.
• Produce a complete design package for Network Engineering approval.
• Work with Delivery on the build schedule, dependencies and acceptance requirements.

Required qualifications

• Experience designing or developing carrier, cloud or data center connectivity, with designs that have progressed from requirements into delivery.
• Practical knowledge of dark fiber, wavelength services, optical transport and internet interconnection.
• Ability to assess physical route diversity, equipment dependencies and capacity needs.
• Experience working directly with carrier engineers, colocation providers or equipment suppliers to solve design constraints.
• Ability to compare supplier options on technical fit, delivery risk and total cost.
• Clear design documentation that engineering reviewers and delivery teams can use.

Nice to have

• Experience designing long-haul optical networks or dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) systems.
• Experience with private cloud connectivity, internet exchanges or large compute deployments.
• Carrier solutions engineering experience, or familiarity with route mapping and capacity planning tools.

Benefits

• Generous cash & equity compensation
• Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
• Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles
• 401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees)
• Flexible paid time off plan

About the company

Lambda is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers. Founded in 2012, the company has 500+ employees and is growing fast.