Lead Network Engineer - Manufacturing Infrastructure
HalterVirtual Fencing company
AucklandLead
Bessemer Venture Partners
Founders Fund
Blackbird Ventures
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Lead network strategy and standards for global manufacturing infrastructure, ensuring secure and reliable operations.
- •Halter is revolutionizing grazing with its innovative technology, enabling farmers to run more productive and sustainable operations.
- •This role is crucial in setting the global production network strategy and standards for secure, high-reliability manufacturing infrastructure.
- •Key Responsibilities Own the global production network strategy across factories, suppliers, and future sites.
- •Define the reference architecture for scalable manufacturing networks, including segmentation, security, and observability.
- •Set readiness gates and standards for network deployment, validation, and incident response.
- •Drive cross-functional execution for new site launches and reliability improvements.
- •Make readiness calls on network capability, reliability, security, and support.
- •Requirements Proven technical leadership in high-reliability industrial, manufacturing, or mission-critical network environments.
- •Deep architecture experience across routing/switching, segmentation, firewalls, and observability.
- •Track record scaling network infrastructure across multiple sites and countries with robust standards.
- •Strong judgment balancing velocity, security, uptime, and cost.
- •Excellent communication skills to align diverse teams and stakeholders.
Required skills
LinuxGitPythonBashAWSGoogle CloudAzureTerraformDockerKubernetesCI/CDNginxHAProxy
Nice-to-have skills
Python
Domain expertise
logistics
Tech stack
LinuxGitPythonBashAWSGoogle CloudAzureTerraformDockerKubernetesCI/CDNginxHAProxy