Responsibilities

• High energy individual to manage stakeholders charged with designing critical network infrastructure that enable the world’s largest online services.
• Network acquisition industry experiences to support procurement projects.
• Positive can do attitude working attitude, growth mindset, always willing to learn & adapt, raise the bar for cultural change, able to grow, lead and retain high performing talent.
• Lead and manage Cloud project initiatives for platform enablement and delivering capabilities that exceed customer expectations to enable rapid pace delivery.
• Basic knowledge of subsea investment and able to collaborate with investment team to identify opportunities to convert lease to long term owned assets to drive efficiency.
• Drive performance quality across existing suppliers’ services, ensure proactive arrest of connectivity outages and act as escalation point to supplier senior leadership in coordination with Microsoft Delivery team and Assurance team.
• Responsible for Data analytics for your country to parse data, build meaningful metrics and reports enabling workflow analysis driving for workflow efficiency gains.
• Lead project initiatives for Cloud Interconnection & Acquisitions team to improve efficiency and quality in the country you manage.
• Collaborate with internal teams to identify and define strategic initiatives to meet expansion and cost reduction needs.
• Build strategic relationships with vendors and industry experts.
• Communicate progress internally and collaborate with network deployment teams.
  
  
  

Qualifications

1. Strategic negotiations and/or business development experience obtaining services from high-technology providers in data center and internet technologies.
2. Experience in influencing engineers in technical discussions
3. A passion for networking or data center technologies
4. Will be comfortable in conversation dealing with networking topics covering route mapping, procurement, installation, support and operations
5. Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, including financial analytics.
6. Ability to analyze complex problems, determine best course of action and drive permanent resolution.
7. Ability to successfully influence through relationships.
8. Ability to build trust across teams and organizations.
9. Ability to promote a collaborative environment and bring a positive attitude to difficult situations.

• BS or BA degree (In lieu of degree, 8 years relevant work experience)
• Industry experience with regard to Network sourcing/acquisition and contracting - including Colocation sourcing, Metro and Long Haul Dark Fiber acquisition and lit wavelengths; including understanding of permitting and ROW
• 5+ years of experience in networking and/or data center technologies
• Solid understanding of Geospatial data and related analysis technologies

3+ years of Program Management or equivalent Engineering experience leading, defining and delivering projects or services

• 8+ years of experience in Network, Data Center/Colo sourcing/acquisition and contracting
• Solid working understanding of domestic and global carrier networks
• Depth of experience presenting/communicating to executives and c-suite leadership
• Great problem solving, strategic thinking and technical skills.
• Business Acumen demonstrated through prior work or education
• Self-driven and ability to work with minimal direction
• Technical experience with databases, data integration and data access technologies
• Experience with a data driven/metrics-driven mindset and the ability to experiment, learn and improve