<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>About Nebius:</strong></p> <p>Nebius is leading a new era in cloud infrastructure for the global AI economy. We are building a full-stack AI cloud platform that supports developers and enterprises from data and model training through to production deployment, without the cost and complexity of building large in-house AI/ML infrastructure.</p> <p>Built by engineers, for engineers. From large-scale GPU orchestration to inference optimization, we own the hard problems across compute, storage, networking and applied AI.</p> <p>Listed on Nasdaq (NBIS) and headquartered in Amsterdam, we have a global footprint with R&D hubs across Europe, the UK, North America and Israel. Our team of 1,500+ includes hundreds of engineers with deep expertise across hardware, software and AI R&D.</p></div><p><strong>The role: Network </strong>Engineering Manager APAC / Network Team Lead APAC</p> <p>We are looking for a <strong>Staff Network Engineer / Player-Coach Team Lead</strong> to lead the growth, deployment, and operational execution of our <strong>APAC Network Infrastructure emerging team</strong>. In this role, you will combine direct people leadership with high-end technical expertise. You will lead a growing regional team of <strong>2–5 jun/mid-to-senior network engineers</strong>, driving their professional development, cross-project prioritization across our <strong>Global Network</strong>, and overall execution aligned with global business objectives, with a priority on the <strong>APAC Region</strong> and backbone network development across EU and the US for APAC.</p> <p>As a hands-on technical manager, you will remain deeply embedded in engineering execution, dedicating approximately <strong>50–70% of your time to hands-on engineering</strong> during your first year, with the role evolving naturally alongside organizational scale and regional team expansion.</p> <p>Crucially, this position demands a high degree of <strong>operational autonomy</strong>. Due to the timezone differences, you will serve as the primary regional networking authority, bridging global network architecture defined with our EU/EMEA/the US engineering headquarters and regional execution across APAC colocation sites, cable landings, and data centers.</p> <p>This position is remote within the APAC region (with preferred hubs in India, Singapore), with regular visits to regional DC facilities and our European headquarters in Amsterdam.</p> <p><strong>Your responsibilities will include:</strong></p> <p><strong>Team Leadership & People Management</strong></p> <ul> <li>Deploy APAC network part and BackBone. Lead, mentor, and structurally develop a regional engineering team of 2–5 jun/mid-to-senior network engineers across the APAC.</li> <li>Own regional task planning, backlog prioritization, change review governance, and end-to-end execution within the team.</li> <li>Drive and owning the Launch and Deploy process of New DataCentre and Customer in it</li> <li>Drive technical coaching, and personalized career roadmaps for team members.</li> <li>Foster a disciplined culture of radical ownership, engineering excellence, comprehensive runbook documentation, and Git-driven automation.</li> <li>Act as the regional net escalation point for production network incidents</li> <li><strong>Global Follow-the-Sun Alignment:</strong> Co-own operational hand-off workflows and shared incident coverage with <strong>EMEA (HQ in Amsterdam)</strong> and the <strong>US</strong> network teams to guarantee seamless, round-the-clock global production network stability and customer workability.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Cross-Functional Alignment & Strategic Autonomy</strong></p> <ul> <li>Serve as the primary regional network owner for the next teams in APAC: datacenter operations team, site expansion teams.</li> <li><strong>EU/EMEA Coordination:</strong> Actively partner with the Global Network Architecture and R&D to adapt core architectural standards (Clos fabrics, SRv6, backbone routing policies) to APAC market realities and carrier ecosystems.</li> <li>Autonomously drive regional connectivity delivery: partner closely with Technical Program Managers (TPMs) on submarine cable systems, cross-border DCI circuits, local Internet Exchanges (IXs), and regional transit providers.</li> <li>Coordinate with HWaaS, Compute, and Cloud Platform engineering teams to guarantee timely site bring-up, Day-0 Out-of-Band (OOB) readiness, and high-throughput fabric availability for production workloads.</li> <li>Bridge the gap between global strategic roadmaps and autonomous local incident resolution, ensuring APAC operations execute reliably during EMEA off-hours.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Technical Leadership & Hands-on Work (50–60%)</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Full Regional Network Ownership:</strong> Own and guarantee overall network infrastructure readiness, capacity, and availability across emerging APAC network infrastructure, ensuring alignment with HQ blueprints and processes</li> <li>Actively contribute to the design, deployment, and operation of massive data center fabrics and backbone infrastructure.</li> <li>Support and participate in the evolution high-performance Ethernet-based GPU cluster interconnects.</li> <li>Participate in complex, high-severity troubleshooting and root-cause analysis (RCA) for critical i