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Job Summary:
Crusoe is on a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence, and they are seeking a Senior Staff Network Deployment Engineer. This role involves defining deployment strategies for network infrastructure across global data centers and edge sites, while leading a team of engineers and collaborating with various departments to ensure efficient operations.
Responsibilities:
• Own Global Deployment Strategy: Define the multi-quarter technical roadmap for how Crusoe deploys network infrastructure across new and existing data centers, edge sites, and backbone interconnects.
• Set the Standards: Author and ratify internal RFCs and technical standards for physical and logical network deployment — cabling, optics, fabric provisioning, validation, and handoff — that the broader engineering org executes against.
• Influence Architecture for Deployability: Partner closely with Network Architecture to shape designs that scale operationally; serve as the senior voice ensuring what gets designed can actually be built and validated at hyperscale pace.
• Architect the Deployment Automation Platform: Set the technical direction for Crusoe's ZTP, IaC, and validation tooling stack. Drive the strategy for Python-, Ansible-, and CI/CD-based systems that stage and validate hundreds of devices simultaneously.
• Define the Validation Framework: Establish the burn-in, site acceptance testing (SAT), and commissioning criteria used across the fleet to ensure zero-defect handovers to Operations.
• Lead Vendor and Partner Strategy: Establish standards, SLAs, and qualification programs for structured cabling vendors, remote hands partners, and data center providers globally. Influence hardware vendor roadmaps (Arista, Juniper, NVIDIA/Mellanox) based on Crusoe's operational needs.
• Drive Capacity and Asset Strategy: Partner with Supply Chain and Infrastructure leadership on capacity planning, hardware lifecycle, and the turn-up cadence for new backbone capacity and edge interconnects.
• Mentor and Multiply: Provide technical guidance to Staff and Senior network deployment engineers. Lead design reviews, post-incident reviews, and drive systemic improvements to deployment quality across the org.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 12+ years of network engineering experience with a heavy focus on large-scale data center deployments and infrastructure programs, including significant time in hyperscale, large cloud, or ISP environments.
• Demonstrated Technical Leadership: Proven track record of authoring standards, mentoring engineers, and driving multi-quarter technical initiatives that span teams. You've operated as a senior technical voice in an organization where decisions you've made are still in production.
• Hyperscale Operational Experience: Comfort operating at scale — 10K+ network devices, multi-region fabric deployments, and the realities of building when the supply chain, the timeline, and the physics are all working against you.
• Mastery of Physical Layer Standards: Deep expertise in structured cabling (SMF/MMF, MPO/MTP), optical transceivers (400G/800G and roadmap to 1.6T), and data center power/cooling for HPC workloads.
• Routing and Switching Fluency: Expert hands-on experience with Arista (EOS), Juniper (Junos), and NVIDIA/Mellanox platforms in leaf-spine architectures. You can go as deep as the problem demands.
• Protocol Proficiency: Strong working knowledge of BGP, EVPN-VXLAN, and LLDP as they relate to large-scale fabric provisioning and validation.
• Automation Architect: Track record of designing and shipping deployment automation systems used by a broader engineering team — not just scripts you wrote, but platforms others build on. Strong Python and Ansible; familiarity with modern IaC and CI/CD patterns.
• Program Leadership: Proven ability to lead multiple complex, concurrent deployment programs across time zones and physical locations, with executive-level communication and risk management.
• Diagnostic Depth: Able to diagnose complex physical layer and link-layer issues using OTDRs, light meters, and packet captures — and able to teach others to do the same.
• Education: Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience in hyperscale or ISP environments.
Company:
Crusoe is a vertically integrated AI infrastructure company that builds and operates data centers powered by energy sources. Founded in 2018, the company is headquartered in Denver, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.