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Wayve is building an AI platform for autonomous driving, pioneering an end-to-end AI approach that enables vehicles to learn from real-world experience. As Network & Infrastructure Manager, you will lead a distributed team of seven engineers across the UK, US, Japan, and Israel, responsible for the network and site infrastructure that keeps Wayve connected across offices, garages, labs, and test facilities in six countries.
Your responsibilities include leading, hiring, and developing a distributed team of engineers, helping them grow into domain owners. You will own the roadmap, delivery priorities, and vendor relationships for network and site infrastructure. Working closely with a staff-level network engineer who sets architecture and standards, you'll translate technical direction into reliable delivery. You'll remain hands-on for approximately 20% of your week, reviewing designs, setting engineering standards, and improving automation. You'll participate in the network on-call rotation, own P1 escalations, and drive corrective actions after incidents.
Key projects include delivering a multi-year network replacement across sites with hardware standards, vendor coordination, and safe cutovers; building and operating local and wide area networks, wireless systems, firewalls, certificate-based 802.1X network access control, monitoring, and out-of-band management; shaping new sites end-to-end including network connectivity, audio-visual systems, meeting rooms, and desk technology; improving connectivity between sites and cloud platforms; converting manual infrastructure work into repeatable automation and infrastructure as code; and delivering network security controls and evidence supporting customer requirements and security assessments.
You will partner regularly with Security, Cloud, and Workplace colleagues, with regular travel to sites in Europe, the US, and Japan. Wayve operates a hybrid working model combining in-person collaboration with focused remote work.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Proven experience leading a network or infrastructure team across multiple 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
- Experience owning site infrastructure beyond networking, such as AV, meeting rooms, fit-outs, or new-site builds
- Comfort with infrastructure as code and network automation, with ability to set standards and review team work
- Track record of owning major network incidents and delivering multi-site hardware programmes with vendors and resellers
- Experience delivering network controls and evidence for TISAX, ISO 27001, SOC 2, or equivalent security assessments
- Desire for a people-leadership role that includes hands-on engineering, on-call responsibilities, and regular travel
PLUS (desirable):
- Experience with Juniper SRX and Mist
- Azure or AWS hybrid connectivity experience
- RADIUS and certificate infrastructure knowledge
- Automotive supplier-security assessment experience
