Technical Program Manager - WAN

Location: UK; regular travel across Europe and to sites and partners is required.

Company

Nscale provides GPU cloud infrastructure for AI start-ups and enterprise customers, focused on high-performance, cost-effective AI computing.

What you will do

• Lead end-to-end WAN programmes covering backbone expansion, new site and region bring-up, capacity upgrades, and network optimisation.
• Create programme plans, track dependencies, identify risks, and maintain delivery schedules.
• Coordinate Network Engineering, Infrastructure, SRE, Procurement, carriers, and external vendors.
• Manage carriers, dark fibre and wavelength providers, IXPs, and hardware vendors through ordering, provisioning, and issue resolution.
• Validate WAN deployments against performance, reliability, and scalability requirements before production handover and customer acceptance.
• Improve execution visibility and predictability through processes, tools, reporting, and stakeholder updates.

Requirements

• 5+ years of technical programme or project management experience, ideally in networking or infrastructure.
• Experience delivering large-scale WAN, telecom, or data centre interconnect programmes.
• Understanding of WAN concepts including BGP, routing, capacity planning, fibre, DWDM, peering, and transit.
• Experience managing complex multi-stakeholder programmes, risks, dependencies, carriers, ISPs, and infrastructure vendors.
• Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
• Willingness to travel across Europe as needed.

Nice to have

• Experience in hyperscale or cloud infrastructure environments.
• Familiarity with AI/ML or HPC infrastructure requirements.
• Experience with global-scale network deployment across multiple countries.
• PMP, PgMP, or similar certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Culture centred on innovation, ownership, accountability, openness, and transparency.
• Opportunity to build infrastructure connecting Nscale sites to customers.
• Work spans Network Engineering, Data Centre Operations, carriers, commercial teams, and other stakeholders.