Global Head of Cloud Networking - Modernization

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Global Head of Cloud Networking - Modernization

Executive Level Direct Hire/Onsite Hybrid

Position Overview

As a global leader accelerates its cloud transformation journey, we are seeking an exceptional Global Head of Cloud Networking to lead the evolution of a worldwide network infrastructure. This is a highly visible, enterprise-scale leadership role with global scope, defining and executing the strategy, engineering, and delivery of a global network across public cloud and on-premises environments, ensuring availability, resilience, and security of mission-critical platforms. The role is accountable for transforming a traditional hardware-centric network environment into a modern, cloud-native, software-defined platform supporting global operations, clients, and mission-critical applications.

In this role, you will lead a large, globally distributed organization of engineers and managers — guiding leaders as much as individual contributors — while partnering closely with business stakeholders, IT peers, and strategic vendors to drive infrastructure modernization without compromising world-class availability, reliability, or security.

Drawing inspiration from hyperscale cloud providers such as AWS, the organization is committed to evolving network services beyond traditional networking constructs toward highly automated, self-healing, and fault-tolerant architectures where resilience is engineered into the platform rather than added as an afterthought.

This role requires a unique combination of deep operational expertise in large-scale enterprise networking and a forward-looking vision for the future of cloud-native infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy & Transformation

• Define and execute the global network strategy aligned with enterprise technology and business objectives.
• Lead the transition from legacy infrastructure to cloud-native, software-defined networking models.
• Reimagine how network services are designed, deployed, and operated across the enterprise.

Engineering & Modernization

• Drive adoption of modern engineering practices, including infrastructure-as-code, automated deployment pipelines, intent-based networking, traffic engineering and resilience design, and digital twin simulation.
• Build a highly automated, scalable, and resilient global network platform.
• Lead the evolution toward self-healing and fault-tolerant architectures.
• Apply principles commonly used by hyperscale cloud providers, including distributed traffic management, intelligent path selection, fault-domain isolation, and resilience engineering.
• Implement advanced resiliency strategies including fault isolation, self-healing capabilities, redundancy optimization, and continuous availability engineering.
• Leverage simulation, observability, telemetry, and digital twin technologies to predict, test, and validate network behavior before production deployment.

Operations & Reliability

• Own end-to-end delivery and operations of the global network across multi-cloud environments (e.g., AWS and other providers) and on-premises infrastructure.
• Establish a vision for zero-downtime networking, where failures are anticipated and seamlessly managed.
• Develop and execute a long-term roadmap for network scalability, performance optimization, capacity planning, and operational efficiency.
• Establish metrics and operational standards focused on reliability, service availability, security, and customer experience.

Leadership & Stakeholder Management

• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing global team of network engineers, architects, and operational leaders, commanding a 75-person department with a $70M+ annual operating budget.
• Govern the technology sector's most pivotal vendor alliances and multi-million dollar contracts, managing strategic relationships and influencing technology direction across critical infrastructure platforms.
• Partner with enterprise technology leaders, including Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, Application Development, SRE, and Enterprise Architecture teams, to align network strategy with business priorities and deliver integrated solutions.
• Serve as a key executive stakeholder in enterprise-wide technology transformation efforts.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive experience in enterprise networking, infrastructure engineering, or cloud platform leadership.
• Deep expertise in enterprise-scale network engineering and operations.
• Proven experience managing and stabilizing complex legacy network environments while driving modernization.
• Strong experience with cloud networking (multi-cloud, AWS preferred), hybrid infrastructure environments, and large-scale distributed systems.
• Demonstrated fluency in cloud-native architectures, automation and platform engineering practices, and resilience engineering principles.
• Experience implementing modern networking paradigms such as software-defined networking and infrastructure-as-code.
• Experience implementing automated deployment pipelines, network testing frameworks, and reliability engineering practices.
• Experience leveraging telemetry, observability, analytics, and automation to improve operational outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to lead large engineering organizations through significant technological and cultural transformation.

Leadership Characteristics

• Visionary leader capable of defining the future state of enterprise networking.
• Strong operational mindset with a commitment to stability, reliability, and execution excellence.
• Data-driven decision maker with a passion for continuous improvement and innovation.
• Exceptional communicator capable of influencing executive stakeholders and technical teams alike.
• Proven ability to lead complex transformations across global organizations.

Key Success Outcomes

• Successful transformation to a cloud-native, software-defined network platform.
• Measurable improvements in network resilience and uptime, deployment speed and automation, and operational efficiency.
• Establishment of a zero-downtime, resilience-first network architecture.
• A next-generation global network platform delivering exceptional resilience, security, scalability, and performance — a foundation for continuous innovation where infrastructure failures are anticipated, managed intelligently, and largely invisible to end users.

To apply, please submit your resume to [email protected]

Your candidacy will be held strictly confidential. Please call me with any questions.

Please add me on LinkedIn — I look forward to connecting with you.

Boyd Kelly
Liberty Personnel Services

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