Engineering manager - Network infrastructure - APAC
Lead technical project manager for network infrastructure at Nebius' AI cloud, driving cross-team APAC initiatives end to end — from provisioning and automation to SLO frameworks and network device CI/CD. Needs 7+ years in TPM/engineering with a real engineering background to earn trust from SRE, network and platform teams.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Singapore
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 7+ years
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 7+ years in technical project management, engineering management, or hands-on engineering (SRE, SWE, network, infrastructure) with delivered complex cross-team infrastructure projects
- Real engineering background: built and operated production systems
- Ability to read design docs and technical proposals, understand trade-offs, and ask sharp questions about reliability, rollback, blast radius and failure modes
- Strong understanding of infrastructure fundamentals: Linux, networking, automation, CI/CD
- Proven ability to drive decisions and create clarity in ambiguous, fast-changing environments without formal authority
- Excellent written and verbal communication, including documenting plans and influencing technical people
- Ability to work independently in an early-stage environment and build processes from scratch
- Professional working proficiency in English and comfort working across time zones
Nice to have
- Network infrastructure experience: network automation, observability, or network device lifecycle management
- Experience with SLO/SLI frameworks, incident management, or production readiness processes
- Experience with CI/CD or change management for network or high-blast-radius infrastructure
- Experience delivering projects with distributed teams across APAC time zones
- Experience with secrets and access management, firmware rollout, or fleet-wide operational initiatives
- Hands-on engineering contributions (scripts, tooling, automation) alongside project work
Full description
About Nebius:
Nebius is leading a new era in cloud infrastructure for the global AI economy. We are building a full-stack AI cloud platform that supports developers and enterprises from data and model training through to production deployment, without the cost and complexity of building large in-house AI/ML infrastructure.
Built by engineers, for engineers. From large-scale GPU orchestration to inference optimization, we own the hard problems across compute, storage, networking and applied AI.
Listed on Nasdaq (NBIS) and headquartered in Amsterdam, we have a global footprint with R&D hubs across Europe, the UK, North America and Israel. Our team of 1,500+ includes hundreds of engineers with deep expertise across hardware, software and AI R&D.
**The Role
We're looking for an Engineering Manager** for Network Infrastructure to own delivery of network infrastructure initiatives in APAC. This is not a role for someone who only coordinates tickets and status. It is a role for someone with an engineering skeleton: a person who has built, operated, broken and recovered things, and can earn the trust of SREs, SWEs, network engineers, and security and platform teams. We are at the early stage of our APAC expansion, so at first you will be hands-on: reviewing designs, stepping into incidents, and writing code or automation when the team needs it, with a high degree of independence from the European teams. As the organisation grows, the scope of the role will grow with it.
You own delivery. You will make important cross-team initiatives land: defining scope, aligning owners, exposing risks, driving decisions, tracking dependencies, and making sure we ship useful outcomes instead of half-finished initiatives. The job is not done when the technical pieces exist. It is done when engineers trust the tool, the NOC actually uses the workflow, alerts are actionable, runbooks are real, and the new way becomes the default way.
You stay technical. You don't need to be the deepest expert in every area, but you should be technical enough to understand real trade-offs: why rollback is not optional, why "just automate it" can create a bigger blast radius, why SLOs without ownership are decoration, and why network device CI/CD is very different from deploying a stateless service. You can read a design doc, challenge missing assumptions, notice unclear failure modes, and help the team turn a vague but important problem into an executable plan.
This is a high-leverage role in an early-stage and fast-scaling network infrastructure organisation. Many important systems are being built now: automation, observability, reliability standards, provisioning flows, operational safety, and cross-site consistency. You won't be maintaining a mature machine from the sidelines. You'll help shape how the machine works.