Engineering Manager (Deployment)

Join Crusoe Cloud as an Engineering Manager, Deployment. In this role, you will lead a deployment team responsible for bringing our global network online. You will manage your team's structure and growth, drive deployment automation adoption, deliver your portion of the portfolio, execute against strategy, report on program status, manage vendor and partner performance, champion validation rigor, support capacity planning, contribute to continuous improvement, and develop team members. You will also apply frontend and backend network reference architecture.

• Manage a deployment team's people, process, and delivery across a portion of our growing portfolio of concurrent global builds.
• Drive deployment automation adoption and help execute the automation strategy across the deployment lifecycle.
• Be accountable for on-time, zero-defect delivery across your assigned site build-outs and manage the operating cadence and staffing for your team.

• Proven People Leadership: Track record of building and retaining a high-performing technical team
• Automation Fluency: Working understanding of Python/Ansible/ZTP-based deployment automation and CI/CD patterns, sufficient to drive adoption within your team
• Strong Technical Fluency: Solid grounding in physical layer standards (structured cabling, optics, 400G/800G and beyond), leaf-spine fabric (Arista/Juniper/NVIDIA-Mellanox), and protocols (BGP, EVPN-VXLAN, LLDP), enough to guide your team and engage credibly with Architecture
• 6+ years of experience in network engineering or data center deployment, including 2+ years managing engineers in a large-scale infrastructure environment
• Clear Communication: Comfortable setting context and managing expectations with stakeholders across Ops, Supply Chain, and Architecture
• Education: Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience in hyperscale or ISP environments
• Operational Judgment: Able to balance near-term delivery pressure against team health and sustainability
• Program Execution: Demonstrated ability to deliver on multiple concurrent, complex projects spanning sites, time zones, and vendors, with solid reporting and risk management
• Vendor and Partner Management: Experience holding external partners to SLAs, including escalation when performance slips