Technical Manager, Network
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Job Summary
At Talkdesk we are courageous innovators focused on redefining the customer experience making the impossible possible for companies globally. We champion an inclusive and diverse culture representative of the communities in which we live and serve. And we give back to our community by volunteering our time supporting non-profits and minimizing our global footprint. Each day thousands of employees customers and partners all over the world trust Talkdesk to deliver a better way to great experiences.
We are recognized as a cloud contact center leader by many of the most influential research organizations including Gartner and Forrester. With $498 million in total funding a valuation of more than $10 Billion and a ranking of #16 on the Forbes Cloud 100 list now is the time to be part of the Talkdesk legacy to help accelerate our success in a new decade of transformational growth.
At Talkdesk we embrace FAST our fundamental operating principles that define who we are as an organization. These principles drive us to make the impossible possible. FAST: Focus Accountability Speed Talkdesker.
- Focus: Focus time energy and attention on what is most impactful for the business and thoughtful about how and when to partner with others.
- Accountability: Hold self and others accountable to meet commitments and drive results. Accept responsibility for successes and failures.
- Speed: Execute with agility and urgency. Act promptly decisively and without delay. Make good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward.
- Talkdesker: YOU!
The SRE Connectivity team at Talkdesk is responsible for building running and evolving the infrastructure foundation that supports all engineering teams with an automation-first mindset and a strong focus on availability reliability and scalability.
As a Technical Manager you will combine hands-on technical leadership with people and delivery ownership. You will actively contribute to the design implementation and operation of the network and SRE stack while also guiding the team setting technical direction and ensuring sustainable execution.
At Talkdesk we follow a you build it you own it this role you will help reinforce that culture by empowering teams with the right tools practices and guardrails fostering a blameless environment focused on learning and continuous improvement.
You will work with a large distributed multi-region multi-cloud infrastructure using modern technologies at scale.
Be responsible for:
Technical (hands-on)
- Design build and maintain the core network infrastructure and related tooling used across Talkdesk
- Remain hands-on in the day-to-day work contributing code infrastructure changes and reviews
- Drive automation-first practices across network and infrastructure operations
- Ensure infrastructure reliability through observability monitoring alerting and proactive issue detection
- Develop and evolve tooling alerts and operational processes that enable engineering teams to safely run production workloads
- Participate in on-call rotation leading by example and staying close to production realities
- Lead and actively participate in incident response root cause analysis and post-mortems ensuring concrete follow-ups that improve resilience
Leadership & management
- Provide technical direction and standards for the network and SRE domain
- Mentor and coach engineers supporting their technical growth and operational maturity
- Plan and prioritize work with a focus on impact risk reduction and long-term sustainability
- Act as a technical partner to product engineering teams helping them design more reliable scalable and observable services
- Balance short-term operational needs with longer-term architectural improvements
Need to have:
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS networking
- Hands-on experience configuring and operating AWS Direct Connect
- Hands-on experience with Fortinet firewalls and Fortinet network security products
- Experience working with NetBox or similar network source-of-truth solutions
- Solid knowledge of Linux/Unix systems
- Programming/scripting skills in at least one language (e.g. Python Bash)
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation Terraform or similar)
- Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Datadog New Relic Grafana or similar)
- Proven ability to identify manual error-prone processes and replace them with automation
- Strong troubleshooting skills and ability to identify root causes in large-scale distributed systems
- Pragmatic solution-oriented mindset with strong critical thinking skills
Be valued for:
- Experience supporting production systems at scale
- Experience with technologies such as Docker Consul Vault Jenkins Concourse Prometheus Nexus
- Experience with encryption and key management technologies (ACM KMS hashing secret management)
- Experience with additional firewall or network security solutions beyond Fortinet
- Experience with other cloud providers such as GCP or Azure
- Previous experience acting as a technical lead or manager while remaining hands-on
Work Environment and Physical Requirements:
Primarily office-environment work extended periods of sitting or standing computer-based work. Limited lifting and equipment usage limited to computer-related equipment (keyboards mouse etc.)
The Talkdesk story hinges on empathy and acceptance. It is the shared goal among all Talkdeskers to empower a new kind of customer hero through our innovative software solution and we firmly believe that the best path to success for our mission is inclusivity diversity and genuine acceptance. To that end we will hire promote work along cheer for bond with and warmly welcome into the Talkdesk family all persons without regard to ethnic and racial identity indigenous heritage national origin religion gender gender identity gender expression sexual orientation age disability marital status veteran status genetic information or any other legally protected status.
Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Load Balancing
- Splunk
- Mac Os
- Network Management
- Network Administration
- LAN
- Computer Networking
- MacOS Server
- Juniper
- MPLS
- Mentoring
- HBase
About Company
Talkdesk is the leader in Customer Experience Automation (CXA), using AI and real-time data to automate customer journeys, reduce costs, and improve outcomes.
