Senior Manager of Product Software Architecture and Engineering, Equinix

• The successful candidate is a visionary engineering leader who can build a self-service, API-first compute platform, establish world-class reliability and quality engineering practices, and accelerate the organization's transition to AI-Native and autonomous operations
• This individual combines deep technical expertise with strong people leadership and a passion for enabling teams to innovate faster through platform capabilities, automation, and intelligent systems
• 10+ years of experience leading Platform Engineering, SRE, Cloud Infrastructure, Network Operations, or related engineering organizations, including experience building and scaling high-performing teams
• Deep expertise in cloud-native platforms, Kubernetes, distributed systems, infrastructure automation, observability, reliability engineering, and API-driven platform architectures
• Experience building self-service infrastructure platforms or Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) capabilities
• Proven success driving technology transformation, operational excellence, and cross-functional execution across Product, Engineering, Operations, and Security organizations
• Hands-on experience applying AI-assisted development, Agentic workflows, AIOps, and AI-Native engineering practices to improve engineering productivity and business outcomes

Desirable

• We are seeking a strategic and hands-on engineering leader to build and lead a Platform Engineering organization responsible for delivering a secure, scalable, and reliable API-first Compute Platform for Network & Interconnection Engineering (N&IE)
• This platform will enable self-service infrastructure, accelerate application and automation deployment, and provide the foundation for AI-driven and autonomous operations across the organization
• This leader will also manage Quality Engineering team (Function and Performance) for compute based network product offerings
• AI-Native Engineering & Autonomous Operations:
• Champion AI-Native engineering practices through the adoption of Generative AI, Agentic workflows, AI-powered development tools, and intelligent automation
• Lead development of AI-first platforms, agents, and operational capabilities that enable agent/agentic development across N&IE teams
• Drive adoption of AIOps and Agentic AI solutions that improve engineering productivity, operational efficiency, and service reliability
• Platform Strategy & Engineering Leadership:
• Build and lead high-performing teams across Platform Engineering, SRE, Infrastructure Operations, and Network Edge Validation
• Define and execute the roadmap for an API-first Compute Platform that delivers self-service infrastructure, automation, observability, and platform services for N&IE
• Partner with Product, Architecture, Engineering, Security, and Operations leaders to deliver strategic platform capabilities and drive organizational alignment
• Establish a culture of engineering excellence, innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement
• Reliability, Operations & Platform Services:
• Own the availability, scalability, performance, security, and operational health of cloud, server, and hybrid infrastructure platforms
• Drive observability, incident management, disaster recovery, capacity planning, and service governance practices
• Establish and maintain reliability standards, service objectives (SLIs/SLOs), platform lifecycle management, and operational excellence programs
• Network Edge Quality Engineering:
• Lead the Test Engineering team responsible for functional, integration, performance, scalability, resiliency, and release validation of VNF/CNF
• Partner with Product and Engineering teams to embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle
• Security, Compliance & Business Management:
• Ensure platform environments meet security, compliance, risk management, and data protection requirements
• Partner with governance teams for operational governance, vulnerability remediation, technology lifecycle management, vendor partnerships, and budget planning