Infrastructure Project Manager, Network & Lab Infrastructure

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