Our team owns the network and site infrastructure that keeps Wayve connected across offices, garages, labs and test facilities in six countries. We're a growing team of seven engineers across the UK, US, Japan and Israel, delivering a multi-year network upgrade and supporting new sites as Wayve expands. As Network & Infrastructure Engineering Manager, you'll lead the team, partnering with a staff-level network engineer who sets architecture and standards, and with our Security, Cloud and Workplace teams.
Responsibilities
Lead, hire and develop a distributed team, helping engineers grow into domain owners; Own the roadmap, delivery priorities and vendor relationships for network and site infrastructure; Work with the staff-level network engineer to turn technical direction into reliable delivery; Stay hands-on for roughly 20% of the 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 sites in Europe, the US and Japan; Deliver an approved, multi-year network replacement across sites, including hardware standards, vendor coordination and safe cutovers; Build and operate local and wide area networks, wireless, firewalls, certificate-based 802.1X network access control, monitoring and out-of-band management; Shape new sites end to end, including network connectivity, audio-visual systems, meeting rooms, desk technology and fit-out IT; Improve connectivity between sites and cloud platforms, in partnership with the team that owns those platforms; Turn manual infrastructure work into repeatable automation and infrastructure as code; Deliver network security controls and evidence that support customer requirements and security assessments
Requirements
Led a network or infrastructure team across sites and time zones, including hiring, performance management and developing engineers; Deep hands-on enterprise networking experience across local and wide area networks, wireless, firewalls and certificate-based 802.1X; Owned site infrastructure beyond the network, such as AV, meeting rooms, fit-outs or new-site builds; Comfortable with infrastructure as code and network automation, and able to set standards and review team work; Owned major network incidents and delivered multi-site hardware programmes with vendors and resellers; Delivered network controls and evidence for TISAX, ISO 27001, SOC 2 or an equivalent security assessment; Wants a people-leadership role that still includes hands-on engineering, on-call responsibilities and regular travel
Nice to have
Experience with Juniper SRX and Mist; Azure or AWS hybrid connectivity; RADIUS and certificate infrastructure; Automotive supplier-security assessments
Benefits
Salaries benchmarked against the market annually; Meaningful equity; Relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable; Hybrid working, core hours and the chance to work hands on in vehicle workshops and labs; Learning and development budgets with support for training, conferences and growth; Comprehensive benefits including health insurance, dental, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, retirement or pension where applicable, access to therapists, wellbeing partnerships, team socials and more
Wielka Brytania · London
