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Job Description: Infrastructure Project Manager, Network & Lab Infrastructure Menlo Park, CA (Onsite) About the role: This is a delivery-focused PM role, not a generalist one. You will own schedules, dependencies, and cross-functional coordination for lab build-outs and network rack integration programs. You need to be genuinely conversant in network infrastructure: enough to read a topology diagram, understand why an optics order is on the critical path, sit in a design review without a translator, and push back when a plan does not hold up. You will spend your time unblocking other people's work. Chasing the long-lead hardware, chasing the change window, chasing the vendor who owes us a ship date. If being the squeaky wheel that keeps a program moving sounds like the job, it is. What you will do: • Project intake, scoping, and schedule/milestone management for production lab build-outs, rack integration, and wireless/AP deployment programs • Cross-functional coordination across Network Engineering, Data Center Operations, Security / NetSec, Compliance, and OEM vendors • Hardware and logistics tracking: racks, switches, optics, structured cabling, capacity, and long-lead item risk • Change management and maintenance-window coordination, including config push windows and canary / validation gates • Risk, issue, and dependency tracking with clear escalation paths • Status reporting and executive-level dashboards, plus a regular operations review and quarterly • Documentation and process normalization: runbooks, as-builts, Confluence or equivalent wiki, and intake templates • Sprint-based delivery tracking in Jira against team OKRs, with epics and stories structured so progress rolls up cleanly • Compliance and remediation program tracking, including device configuration remediation campaigns and patch management readiness Baseline technical knowledge we expect: • Data center and campus network fundamentals: L1/L2/L3, VLANs and subnetting, IPv6, BGP basics, structured cabling, optics and transceiver types • Fabric topology fluency: border leaf, spine, leaf, and campus gateway layers, and why redundancy at each tier matters • Lab and test environment models, including network segmentation tiers and how each tier differs on internet access, source code access, and wireless • Rack integration and provisioning workflows: device staging, cabling standards, DNS and certificate setup, proxy integration, monitoring onboarding • Wireless infrastructure basics: AP density and placement, controller architecture, throughput planning for high-density test environments • Data center operations and change-management process fluency (ITIL-style change control), including major incident response, rollback, and post-incident review • Enough familiarity with network automation and config-as-code workflows (Ansible or similar, Git-based config management, templated device configs, validation, canary, staged rollout) to track them as real milestones rather than black boxes • Comfort reading operational telemetry from monitoring and log platforms (Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, ELK or equivalent) well enough to know whether a deployment is actually healthy • IP address management and device inventory concepts: address block hierarchy, device inventory graph, asset lookup. Familiarity with NetBox, phpIPAM, Infoblox or similar • Firewall and ACL policy change basics, and how a policy change can gate a deployment

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Infrastructure Project Manager, Network & Lab Infrastructure
Menlo Park, CA (Onsite)
Project intake, scoping, and schedule/milestone management for production lab build-outs, rack integration, and wireless/AP deployment programs
Cross-functional coordination across Network Engineering, Data Center Operations, Security / NetSec, Compliance, and OEM vendors
Hardware and logistics tracking: racks, switches, optics, structured cabling, capacity, and long-lead item risk
Change management and maintenance-window coordination, including config push windows and canary / validation gates
Risk, issue, and dependency tracking with clear escalation paths
Status reporting and executive-level dashboards, plus a regular operations review and quarterly
Documentation and process normalization: runbooks, as-builts, Confluence or equivalent wiki, and intake templates
Sprint-based delivery tracking in Jira against team OKRs, with epics and stories structured so progress rolls up cleanly
Compliance and remediation program tracking, including device configuration remediation campaigns and patch management readiness
Data center and campus network fundamentals: L1/L2/L3, VLANs and subnetting, IPv6, BGP basics, structured cabling, optics and transceiver types
Fabric topology fluency: border leaf, spine, leaf, and campus gateway layers, and why redundancy at each tier matters
Lab and test environment models, including network segmentation tiers and how each tier differs on internet access, source code access, and wireless
Rack integration and provisioning workflows: device staging, cabling standards, DNS and certificate setup, proxy integration, monitoring onboarding
Wireless infrastructure basics: AP density and placement, controller architecture, throughput planning for high-density test environments
Data center operations and change-management process fluency (ITIL-style change control), including major incident response, rollback, and post-incident review
Comfort reading operational telemetry from monitoring and log platforms (Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, ELK or equivalent) well enough to know whether a deployment is actually healthy
IP address management and device inventory concepts: address block hierarchy, device inventory graph, asset lookup. Familiarity with NetBox, phpIPAM, Infoblox or similar
Firewall and ACL policy change basics, and how a policy change can gate a deployment

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