Senior Manager, Engineering

Who is Nexxen
Flexible advertising unified by data. Nexxen empowers advertisers agencies publishers and broadcasters around the world to utilize data and advanced TV in the ways that are most meaningful to them. Our flexible and unified technology stack comprises a demand-side platform (DSP) and supply-side platform (SSP) with the Nexxen Data Platform at its core.

Why join the Nexxen team
With a global footprint you can be part of a team that is transforming advertising through our creative flexible and unified solutions. Employees hustle commit and dedicate themselves to pillars that make up the Nexxen Way the 3Cs - Customer Centric Curious Mindset Collaborative with No Ego.

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Youre an experienced infrastructure leader who enjoys owning complex environments end-to-end from physical data center design to systems reliability and network performance. You thrive on improving operational maturity while staying close enough to the technical work to guide strong architectural decisions.

You approach challenges with a customer-centric mindset bring a curious mindset to evolving infrastructure problems and build trust through collaboration without ego. You care deeply about reliability efficiency and growing engineers into strong technical owners.

This role will be based in the New York NY or Reston VA office. Our team follows a hybrid schedule working in the office three days a week and remotely for the rest.

Each day can be different here at Nexxen but some of the things you can expect to be doing daily are:

What Youll Do

• Lead and develop one or more infrastructure teams spanning physical infrastructure systems engineering and operations.

• Drive planning execution and delivery of major infrastructure initiatives across data center and platform domains.

• Partner with product security architecture and business stakeholders to align technical priorities with company goals.

• Establish operational excellence across incident response postmortems change management and continuous improvement.

• Mentor engineers and technical leads through career development feedback and performance management.

• Own hiring and team growth with a focus on building diverse high-performing teams.

• Champion automation observability documentation and modern infrastructure practices.

• Act as a technical leader who guides design decisions while empowering engineers to execute.

Youll live Nexxens values by being:

• Customer Centric Prioritizing reliability performance and user experience.

• Curious Mindset Constantly improving systems tools and processes.

• Collaborative Without Ego Partnering openly across teams and sharing ownership of outcomes.

What Youll Focus On:

• Lead data center operations and architecture across on-prem and colocation environments.

• Own standards for physical infrastructure including rack design structured cabling power distribution cooling and environmental monitoring.

• Oversee systems platforms including Linux environments virtualization provisioning and lifecycle management.

• Drive capacity planning for compute storage and network resources.

• Guide network architecture and operations including switching routing redundancy and connectivity between data centers and cloud environments.

• Manage vendor relationships for hardware colocation networking and support services.

• Ensure strong disaster recovery resiliency and business continuity practices.

• Expand automation for provisioning configuration management and operational workflows.

• Partner with security and compliance teams on physical and logical controls.

What Youll Bring

• 8 years of experience in infrastructure systems or data center engineering with 3 years in a leadership or management role.

• Strong hands-on background in physical data center infrastructure systems engineering and operations.

• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals and architecture (switching routing redundancy traffic flows and troubleshooting).

• Experience with Linux environments virtualization platforms (VMware KVM Proxmox etc.) and automation tools.

• Familiarity with observability platforms and reliability best practices.

• Proven ability to lead complex projects while developing engineers and technical leaders.

• Clear communicator across technical and business audiences.

• A leadership style rooted in curiosity accountability and collaboration.

In support of pay transparency and equity the minimum and maximum full-time annual base salary for this role is $180K - $210K at the time of posting. While this is our reasonable expectation this is not a guarantee of compensation or salary actual compensation is influenced by a wide range of factors including but not limited to skill set level of experience education certifications responsibility and geographic location. Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location. We offer a variety of benefits including medical dental vision disability insurance 401(k) EAP parental leave unlimited vacation and company-paid holidays. The specific programs and options available will vary depending on the state start date and employment type. Our Talent Acquisition team will be happy to answer any questions you may have.

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