Technical Program Manager Network Operations

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in program management.
• 5 years of experience in leadership role with/without direct reports.
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• 8 years of experience managing cross-functional/team projects.
• Experience with Unix/Linux administration, with scripting/coding.
• Knowledge of TCP/IP fundamentals, network routing protocols (e.g., OSPF, IS-IS, BGP, MPLS) and physical infrastructure.
• Understanding of ISP network operations or experience in enterprise/IT network infrastructure support.
• Ability to employ good troubleshooting skills and creative problem solving abilities under pressure.
  
  

About The Job

Googles projects, like our users, span the globe and require managers to keep the big picture in focus while being able to dive into the unique engineering challenges we face daily. As a Technical Program Manager at Google, you lead complex, multi-disciplinary engineering projects using your engineering expertise. You plan requirements with internal customers and usher projects through the entire project lifecycle. This includes managing project schedules, identifying risks and clearly communicating them to project stakeholders. Youre equally at home explaining your teams analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical trade-offs in product development with engineers.

Using your extensive technical and leadership expertise, you manage various Engineering-specific programs and teams.

Operate the worlds most reliable network as a strategic advantage for Google who we are, we are a group of network development engineers responsible for break/fix firefighters for Google transport and peers Infrastructure, simply we are maintaining the roads, bridge, sidewalk and tunnels so that users have reliable services all the time.

In this role, your priority is not justto handle the operational events and maintain our Service Level Objectives (SLOs)/services but also to try to stop it from happening again. If you can’t stop it from happening, you will minimize the efforts needed to handle it by expanding boundaries and learning new technologies as you go and use those new technologies as a team multiplier.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

Responsibilities

• Solve systemic network, workflow, process, or tooling problems.
• Provide an effective interface between Global Network Operations (GNO) and adjacent groups.
• Drive continuous improvement of team and overall cohesion to the team.
• Provide observation and coaching of team members to support performance improvement, and provide performance evaluation feedback and career development support for team members.
• Draft, assign and provide technical evaluation of results of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) for reporters.
  
  
  

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Googles EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .

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