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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About Flexport: At Flexport, we believe global trade can move the human race forward. That’s why it’s our mission to make global commerce so easy there will be more of it. We’re shaping the future of a $10T industry with solutions powered by innovative technology and exceptional people. Today, companies of all sizes—from emerging brands to Fortune 500s—use Flexport technology to move more than $19B of merchandise across 112 countries a year. The recent global supply chain crisis has put Flexport center stage as we continue to play a pivotal role in how goods move around the world. We are proud to have the support of the best investors in the game who believe in our mission, solutions and people. Ready to tackle global challenges that impact business, society, and the environment? Come join us. At Flexport, we are building the unified Supply Chain Operating System for global trade. While traditional consulting firms deliver slide decks and walk away, Flexport’s Forward Deployed Consultants (FDCs) embed directly on the operational frontline alongside enterprise clients to architect, build, and deploy real-time supply chain solutions. Operating alongside a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), you are a senior technical subject matter expert sitting at the intersection of Operations Research, data science, supply chain strategy, and executive client delivery. You will embed with Fortune 500 retailers, high-tech manufacturers, and global brand leadership to audit complex logistics networks, identify multi-million-dollar cost leaks, and build executable optimization models that transform client supply chains. You will serve as the solution design lead across a set of Flexport capabilities: Order, booking, and shipment management Transportation planning, consolidation, and exception management Data integrations, workflow automation, and operational analytics You won't just analyze data in a vacuum: you will write Python scripts, design supply chain algorithms, whit

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📍 United States· Full-time
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About the Team Security is at the foundation of OpenAI’s mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Security team protects OpenAI’s technology, people, and products. We are technical in what we build but operational in how we execute, and we support every product and research effort at OpenAI. Our tenets include prioritizing for impact, enabling researchers and developers, preparing for future transformative technologies, and fostering a strong, collaborative security culture. About the Role OpenAI is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join the Infrastructure Security (InfraSec) team. InfraSec safeguards the core of OpenAI’s research and production environments: GPU supercomputing clusters, multi-cloud infrastructure, datacenters, networking, storage, and the critical services that power our frontier AI models. Our charter spans everything from bare-metal hardware and firmware to Kubernetes clusters, service meshes, and the data pathways that carry highly sensitive model weights and user data. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will set technical direction and drive execution of critical foundational services, such as authentication systems, egress/ingress proxies, access brokers, and key management platforms, that demand high standards of reliability, scalability, and software craftsmanship. These systems form the security backbone of OpenAI’s customer and supercomputing environment and must remain robust under intense scale and adversarial pressure. In this role, you will: Own the architecture and roadmap for one or more core security services (e.g., authN/Z, policy enforcement, secure proxies, key management), taking them from design to rollout to long-term operation. Design and implement planet-scale security systems that provide strong guarantees across hardware, operating systems, Kubernetes, networks, and CI/CD: balancing security, reliability, latency, and developer ergonomics. Lead cross-functional launches

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team: OpenAI, in close collaboration with our capital partners, is embarking on a journey to build the world’s most advanced AI infrastructure ecosystem. Our Stargate program develops and deploys massive, state-of-the-art data center campuses in partnership with industry leaders today—and through future OpenAI infrastructure projects tomorrow. We design for scale, speed, and reliability, and we need experienced technicians who can translate network blueprints into physical reality. About the Role: We are seeking a Senior Data Center Networking Technician who thrives in fast-moving build environments and is eager to roll up their sleeves during active datacenter deployments. Your first assignment will focus on the physical bring-up of network infrastructure at a large partner-operated campus, collaborating with partner teams and their delivery vendors to achieve agreed performance and reliability targets. As that campus reaches steady state, you will transition to lead network deployment for future OpenAI data center projects, defining standards and guiding implementation across multiple locations. Candidates must be able to sit onsite in Abilene, Texas 5 days per week Key Responsibilities Serve as OpenAI’s technical lead technician during the current campus build, partnering with internal engineers and external contractors on design reviews, installation plans, and acceptance criteria. Spend significant time on the data-center floor performing inspections, assisting with cable routing/termination when needed, conducting fiber testing (OTDR, power levels, continuity), and resolving installation challenges in real time. Troubleshoot and optimize cabling routes, patching, and equipment turn-up to ensure clean, reliable handoff to network operations. Contribute to design discussions and peer reviews for structured cabling and physical network layouts, providing practical field feedback to engineering teams. Develop repeatable engineering standards, as-built do

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📍 Massachusetts, New York, United States· Full-time
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From $152K/yr

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The Manager of Networking at Datadog leads the global management of network services across all Datadog offices worldwide. This role is responsible for ensuring seamless, high-performance Wi-Fi and direct internet access in our global offices and conference room technology, supporting a rapidly growing global enterprise. As Datadog continues to grow rapidly, this role plays a critical part in scaling both the team and network infrastructure to meet increasing demand. This is a hybrid role that sits in global headquarters in New York city and requires three days in the office each week with occasional travel to our offices around the world. What You’ll Do: Lead the global network engineering teams, managing both full-time employees and third-party vendors to ensure consistent and high-quality service delivery for Datadog offices worldwide. Oversee the design, deployment and scaling of office network infrastructure, including Wi-Fi (Cisco Meraki) and edge networking devices (Cisco, Palo Alto, Juniper, and others), ensuring these services operate according to Datadog's defined service level objectives. Define and implement standards, policies, and processes for network infrastructure to ensure security, reliability and scalability. Collaborate with IT Security, Enterprise Technology, and Workplace teams to align network services with broader IT and business objectives. Develop and track operational metrics for service availability, network performance, driving continuous improvement and optimization. Who You Are: An experienced people manager with at least 5+ years of leadership experience managing teams of network engineers. Proven expertise in Wi-Fi network engineering, including deep knowledge of Cisco Meraki and edge networking solutions from vendors like Cisco, Palo Alto and Juniper. Experience managing large-scale office technology projects in global enterprises with more than 10 offices and 7,000+ employees, ensuring infrastructure keeps pace with ra

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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$300K – $350K/yr

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CLEAR is building THE secure identity company of the future. Our mission is to make experiences safer and easier—physically and digitally. With more than 43 million Members and a growing network of partners across the world, CLEAR's secure identity platform is transforming the way people live, work, and travel. Whether it’s at the airport, stadium, or throughout your everyday life, CLEAR unlocks the magic of frictionless experiences. We are looking for a visionary, customer-obsessed and technology-focused product lead with expertise in mobile app development. In this role, you will be instrumental in shaping the future of CLEAR’s mobile app experience, delivering impactful solutions that drive user satisfaction and business growth moving CLEAR’s mobile app from a collection of features into an intelligent, trusted travel companion that helps members prepare, navigate, and recover throughout their journey. You will build a mobile App experience that is the most helpful digital layer of the travel day and be accountable to driving adoption. You will connect CLEAR’s identity capabilities, real-time travel context, airport operations, member relationships, and partner-enabled services into experiences that are personalized, proactive, and genuinely useful before, during, and after travel. This includes helping members understand airport conditions, find the right path through the airport, discover food and lounge options, and access relevant CLEAR and partner services in the moments that matter. What you'll do: Establish CLEAR’s Mobile app strategic vision and product roadmap in alignment with enterprise goals and user needs, converting a multi-year vision into prioritized product investments, structured sequencing, and core metrics like member retention and app engagement. Transform the app into an intelligent travel companion that guides members through preparation, real-time navigation, food ordering, lounge discovery and access, and any disruptions. Collaborat

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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$300K – $350K/yr

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CLEAR is building THE secure identity company of the future. Our mission is to make experiences safer and easier—physically and digitally. With more than 43 million Members and a growing network of partners across the world, CLEAR's secure identity platform is transforming the way people live, work, and travel. Whether it’s at the airport, stadium, or throughout your everyday life, CLEAR unlocks the magic of frictionless experiences. We are seeking a technical, data-driven Product Management leader to own CLEAR's Marketing Technology platform. This role is responsible for the systems, data, and measurement capabilities that power member acquisition from first touch through enrollment. You will own CLEAR's MarTech ecosystem, including attribution and tracking, audience data infrastructure, CRM and lifecycle marketing platforms, and the integrations that connect marketing signals to actionable insights. Partnering closely with Marketing, Engineering, and Data teams, you'll ensure CLEAR has the tools and intelligence needed to scale growth across paid, organic, and partner channels. What You'll Do: Own the vision, roadmap, and performance of CLEAR's MarTech ecosystem, including CRM, audience activation, tracking, attribution, and marketing data infrastructure. Build best-in-class measurement capabilities across paid, organic, and partner channels, creating a trusted source of truth for acquisition performance. Partner with Marketing to improve audience targeting, lifecycle messaging, SEO/SEM performance, and channel optimization. Drive strategy for audience segmentation, activation, suppression, and first-party data utilization using platforms such as Snowflake and Hightouch. Own the digital enrollment experience, ensuring it is optimized for conversion, personalization, and growth. Define success metrics, manage vendor relationships, and prioritize investments that maximize marketing effectiveness and ROI. What We're Looking For: 8+ years of Product Management experie

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📍 Menlo Park, California, United States· Full-time
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At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. Staff Network Engineer Location: MPK/Bellevue/Dublin Snowflake's Enterprise Technology Network Services team is looking for a Senior Network Engineer to lead the design, operation, and optimization of our Zero Trust and secure-access platform. This role is Zscaler-centric — you will own the health, performance, and roadmap of our ZIA/ZPA deployment — while working across a modern, multi-cloud network stack that supports a global workforce of 10,000+ users. You'll be the escalation point for the most complex connectivity issues and a driver of automation and observability across the environment. What You'll Do Own and operate the Zscaler platform (ZIA, ZPA, ZDX, ZCC) end-to-end, including policy frameworks, app-segmentation models, PAC/traffic-forwarding standards, App Connector topology, and NSS/log-streaming design. Troubleshoot secure-access incidents like tunnel flapping, broker/connector health, SSL inspection edge cases, DNS/DTLS failures, and lead root-cause analysis for systemic issues. Manage Palo Alto firewalls, Panorama and GlobalProtect VPN, while planning migration toward Zscaler solutions. Support Aruba (Central) Wireless, Ekahau and Cisco Catalyst switches globally. Design, install, and configure network devices and ISP circuits at new offices. Build automatio

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the team: OpenAI’s Hardware organization develops AI-native silicon and system-level solutions for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads. Building on efforts like Jalapeño, the team is developing future generations of AI-native silicon and tightly integrated systems to power the next generation of frontier models. By co-designing chips, systems, tools, and methodologies, the team helps deliver faster, more efficient, and production-ready hardware for OpenAI’s supercomputing platform. About the role: We are seeking an experienced Optical Network Engineer to lead Laser related work within our optical interconnect efforts for large-scale compute systems. The role also requires broad, hands-on optical validation experience across IM/DD-based interconnects, working from lab characterization through production readiness and scaled deployment. In this role you will: Drive laser-focused requirements and technical direction within the broader optical interconnect roadmap. Lead evaluation and validation of optical components and subsystems, including laser-based elements, in lab and production-representative environments. Support end-to-end optical testing for IM/DD interconnects (e.g., module/system bring-up, characterization, debug, and readiness for scale). Work with external partners to align on development milestones, performance targets, and quality expectations. Own technical issue triage and resolution across performance, reliability, and manufacturability topics. Collaborate across internal teams to support integration, rollout, and operational success at scale. You might thrive in this role if you have: Strong experience in laser-focused optical engineering (development, validation, manufacturing readiness, or field support). Broad hands-on background with IM/DD optical technologies and optical test/debug workflows. Experience working with external suppliers/manufacturing partners and production-oriented execution. Demonstrated ability to debug complex t

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📍 Bethesda, United States
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Leidos has an exciting opportunity for Cyber Security Engineer—Technical Lead in our Intel Security Sector's Analysis Solutions Business Area . Our talented team is at the forefront in Security Engineering, Computer Network Operations (CNO), Mission Software, Analytical Methods and Modeling, Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), and Cryptographic Key Management. At Leidos , we offer competitive benefits , including Paid Time Off, 11 paid Holidays, 401K with a 6% company match and immediate vesting, Flexible Schedules, Discounted Stock Purchase Plans, Technical Upskilling, Education and Training Support, Parental Paid Leave, and much more. Join us and make a difference in National Security! Job Summary This role is responsible for protecting the customer’s information systems and networks from potential cyber-attacks. The Cyber Security Engineer– Technical Lead will serve in a hands-on “player-coach" capacity, dedicating approximately 75% of time to direct technical engineering, troubleshooting, and implementation work, while providing technical leadership and coordination across the security team. The candidate must display an excellent understanding of technology and utilization of Firewalls (Security Groups), VPNs, Data Loss Prevention (DPS), IDS/IPS, Web-Proxy, Security tools, and Security Audits. Candidate will work directly with Team leads, developers, operations personnel, and other Technical Leads throughout a DevSecOps life cycle both on policy and technical implementation of technologies. This is not a supervisory management role. Success in this position is measured by individual technical contribution and resolution of complex security issues, in addition to technical leadership impact. Primary Responsibilities: Plan, implement, manage, monitor, and upgrade security controls and tools used to protect enterprise systems and networks, while identifying opportunitie

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📍 United States· Remote
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Become a part of our caring community The Market Finance Lead is a key member of the Gulf South Region’s finance team responsible for connecting market financial performance with operational effectiveness. This role will partner closely with Corporate Finance, Network Performance, Network Contracting, and regional Health Services teams. This individual will manage a team covering a diverse set of responsibilities around Medicare Advantage financial business operations with a heavy focus on value-based providers. This role reports to the Market Finance Director. This role analyzes financial results, claims experience, utilization trends, contract performance, membership, and provider performance data to identify opportunities, influence business decisions, and support market growth and operational improvement. The Market Finance Lead will partner closely with regional leadership, actuarial, corporate finance, clinical, risk adjustment, market operations, network performance, network contracting, sales/MarketPoint, and value-based care providers. This individual will translate complex financial and operational data into meaningful insights, recommendations, and action plans that improve performance across the market. As the Market Finance Lead, you will: Manage a team to review value-based providers’ financial performance, membership, cost and utilization trends, contractual results, and opportunities for improvement. Lead the financial portion of provider engagement prep sessions prior to joint operating committee meetings to advise the Network Performance team on contract performance and opportunities for improvement. Lead analysis and reporting related to value-based provider and contract performance, including financial results, utilization, claims experience, membership, and operational trends. Leverage data analytics, business ins

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📍 Jacksonville Florida United States, United States
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The Ops Sup Lead Analyst is a senior-level operations professional responsible for managing transaction exception processing, including payment network claims, adjustments, disputes, settlement exceptions, and reconciliation activities for internal Citi business partners. The role is accountable for ensuring the accurate and timely resolution of operational exceptions, maintaining a strong control environment, and overseeing third-party vendors that support these functions. This individual serves as the primary liaison between Operations, Business, Technology, Risk & Control partners, payment networks, and external vendors to ensure operational issues are resolved effectively, controls are maintained, and processes continue to evolve to support business growth and regulatory expectations. The successful candidate will act as a subject matter expert in payment network operations, transaction routing, settlements, reconciliations, and exception management. Responsibilities Lead the end-to-end management and resolution of transaction exceptions, including payment network claims, adjustments, disputes, settlement discrepancies, and other operational exceptions. Oversee settlement and reconciliation processes to ensure the timely identification, investigation, and resolution of breaks, variances, and outstanding items. Monitor operational performance and service level adherence, ensuring all activities are completed accurately, timely, and in compliance with applicable policies and procedures. Serve as the primary operational liaison with internal Citi business partners, Technology, Risk & Control, Compliance, Finance, payment networks, and third-party vendors. Manage vendor relationships supporting claims, adjustments, settlement, and reconciliation functions, including performance monitoring, issue escalation, service delivery oversight, and process improvements. Act as the b

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📍 O Fallon, Missouri, United States
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Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary Lead Software Engineer Who is Mastercard? Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all. Overview We are seeking an experienced Lead Software Engineer that possesses strong experience with Golang with strong communication skills to work within the Next Edge program. The Next Edge program is developing Mastercard’s next generation edge platform with programmatic interfaces for data transport (transactions, messages, events, APIs, files, etc.) that give our customers a single point of entry to Mastercard network via private customer on-prem connectivity as well as from public clouds. Role • Lead the design, development, and evolution of Mastercard's next-generation edge platform an

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam. The Compensation team designs, manages, and evolves Plaid’s compensation strategy to attract, retain, and motivate world-class talent. We make sure compensation is fair inside the company and competitive in the market. We work on programs that connect directly to Plaid’s business goals and employee experience — using data and insight to make equitable, well-informed decisions. Our work spans cash and equity program design, annual and mid-year review cycles, benchmarking, and exec comp support. In this role, you will own compensation support for specific client groups and take the lead on cycle operations and comp tooling across the team. You’ll work alongside a sharp team and closely with Plaid’s Head of Total Rewards. You’ll have clear ownership of your domain from day one, with real exposure to equity program mechanics, exec comp, and board-level deliverables. Responsibilities: Own comp support for specific client groups — offers, promos, manager/HRBP questions — with a high bar for speed and accuracy Lead configuration and rollout of annual and mid-year compensation cycles in Workday and comp tooling Manage and maintain Plaid’s comp systems: Compa, Pave, and external survey tools (Compensia, Radf

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time· Remote
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We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Seattle, Washington D.C., Raleigh, London, and Amsterdam. Our Payments Risk team builds and operates decisioning capabilities across Signal and Guarantee. We help customers tune thresholds and rules so they can approve more good transactions while reducing returns. For Guarantee, this work also protects the economics of the risk Plaid underwrites. You will be the technical, customer-facing Payment Risk Consulting Lead for Signal and Guarantee. You will interpret model outputs, diagnose customer performance, and turn that analysis into concrete threshold and rules recommendations. You will own proofs of concept and retros, improve existing integrations, and help the team identify patterns that can be scaled through better processes and product capabilities. Responsibilities Own customer proofs of concept and retros from analysis through recommendations and follow-through. Proactively optimize Signal customers, prioritizing accounts with high return rates. Read model outputs and diagnose the drivers of authorization and return-rate performance. Recommend threshold and rules changes that align with each customer's risk and authorization goals. Help Guarantee customers tune thresholds to achieve target authorization rates while protecting lo

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time· Remote
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About the Team OpenAI's Industrial Compute organization is building and scaling the infrastructure required to support frontier AI. The Infrastructure Strategic Sourcing team connects technical and project requirements to supplier readiness, contracting, purchasing, equipment delivery, and portfolio-level risk visibility across owner-furnished contractor-installed equipment (OFCI), data center networking, rack systems and integration, fiber, cabling, optical interconnects, and related infrastructure. The team partners across Pre-Construction, Design, Construction, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Network Engineering, Hardware and Rack Delivery, Strategic Sourcing, Procurement, Legal, Finance, Accounts Payable, Logistics, and external suppliers. We build the operating mechanisms that keep sourcing decisions, purchase execution, long-lead equipment, network and fiber dependencies, rack readiness, and delivery commitments aligned to infrastructure schedules. About the Role We are seeking an Infrastructure Sourcing Operations Lead to own procurement operations across pre-construction, design, construction, and sourcing through purchase order issuance, while maintaining visibility through invoice resolution, production, logistics, delivery, installation, and readiness. The portfolio includes electrical and mechanical OFCI, networking equipment, rack systems and integration, fiber, cabling, optical interconnects, and other infrastructure required to bring capacity online. In this role, you will set priorities, make or escalate decisions that affect cost, supplier relationships, contractual position, and delivery schedules, and define the standards used by execution support for queue management, documentation, tracker maintenance, and recurring reporting. Success requires sound commercial and program judgment, operational rigor, systems thinking, and the ability to turn incomplete information across vendors, tools, and project teams into clear decisions, accountable

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