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ADVANCE THE WORLD.\nAt AMD, we believe technology has the power to solve the world’s most important challenges. From advancing healthcare and scientific discovery to powering AI and the technologies people rely on every day, innovation at AMD is shaping the future.\nWhether you’re designing next-gen processors, enabling AI breakthroughs, or bringing leading edge products to market, every role at AMD contributes to something bigger - technology that moves the world forward. Join us and, together, we’ll advance your career.\nTHE ROLE\nWe are looking for an experienced technology leader to lead our globally distributed Network Engineering and 24x7 Operations organization. You will be responsible for delivering a secure, resilient, and operationally excellent data and voice network supporting more than 50,000 users and 300,000 endpoints worldwide.\nYou will lead the evolution of network operations toward an observability-first, AI-enabled operating model that is increasingly proactive, predictive, and automated. This role combines global team leadership, operational excellence, network strategy, financial management, and technology transformation.\nTHE PERSON\nYou are a collaborative, strategic leader who operates effectively across technical, operational, and executive environments. You bring strong judgment, clear communication, and the ability to lead through complex incidents, competing priorities, and organizational change.\nYou build high-performing teams and trusted partnerships while maintaining accountability for results. You can translate complex technical challenges into clear business impact and priorities and are focused on applying AI, automation, and observability in practical ways that improve reliability, efficiency, and user experience.\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES\nLead a globally distributed team of approximately 90 employees and contractors responsible for network engineering and 24x7 operations.\nOwn the performance, availability, security, and continuous improvement of AMD’s global data and voice network.\nLead major network incidents and escalations, ensuring effective communication, root-cause resolution, and actions that prevent recurrence.\nDrive disciplined Incident, Change, and Problem Management practices to meet SLAs and improve network reliability and user experience.\nDefine and execute the global network strategy and roadmap across infrastructure, lifecycle management, observability, automation, and AI-enabled operations.\nOwn the network observability strategy and capabilities, including Sigma and Optima, to provide actionable end-to-end visibility across the network environment.\nLead adoption of AI/AIOps and agentic automation to improve event correlation, anomaly detection, capacity planning, root-cause analysis, remediation, compliance, and knowledge management.\nEnsure network tools, automation, and operational knowledge continuously improve efficiency, visibility, and time to resolution.\nPartner with Information Security, Engineering Compute & Storage, AI/HPC infrastructure, IT teams, service providers, and vendors to deliver secure, scalable network capabilities.\nOversee concurrent network initiatives, communicating priorities, risks, progress, and operational performance to IT leadership.\nManage global network budgets and forecasts across hardware, software, support, labor, and connectivity services.\nEnsure network operations and the use of AI technologies align with AMD security, governance, and operational requirements.\nPREFERRED EXPERIENCE\nProven experience leading large, globally distributed network engineering and 24x7 operations organizations.\nDemonstrated success leading and developing high-performing technical teams in complex enterprise environments.\nStrong understanding of enterprise network architecture and operations, including LAN, data center networking, wireless, WAN, Internet routing, SD-WAN, WAN acceleration, and QoS.\nKnowledge of voice, video, telephony, unified communications, DNS/DHCP, IP address management, and F5 LTM/GTM load balancing.\nExperience with enterprise network management and observability technologies, including performance monitoring, streaming telemetry, SNMP/NetFlow, synthetic monitoring, and log analytics.\nExperience building and scaling observability platforms and data-driven network operations.\nExperience leading AI/AIOps and agentic automation initiatives within IT or network operations.\nExperience driving network automation across large-scale environments using technologies such as Python, Ansible, APIs, and infrastructure-as-code.\nUnderstanding of network architecture and requirements supporting AI/HPC data center environments is preferred.\nExperience managing multiple complex network initiatives, technology budgets, vendors, service providers, and infrastructure lifecycle planning.\nFamiliarity with ServiceNow Request, Incident, Problem, and Change Management processes.\nACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.\nLOCATION:\nSan Jose, CA\nThis role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.\nBenefits offered are described: AMD benefits at a glance.\nAMD does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. AMD and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity, inclusive employers and will consider all applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political and/or third-party affiliation, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will accommodate applicants’ needs under the respective laws throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process.\nAMD may use Artificial Intelligence to help screen, assess or select applicants for this position. AMD’s “Responsible AI Policy” is available here.\n\nThis posting is for an existing vacancy.\nTHE ROLE\nWe are looking for an experienced technology leader to lead our globally distributed Network Engineering and 24x7 Operations organization. You will be responsible for delivering a secure, resilient, and operationally excellent data and voice network supporting more than 50,000 users and 300,000 endpoints worldwide.\nYou will lead the evolution of network operations toward an observability-first, AI-enabled operating model that is increasingly proactive, predictive, and automated. This role combines global team leadership, operational excellence, network strategy, financial management, and technology transformation.\nTHE PERSON\nYou are a collaborative, strategic leader who operates effectively across technical, operational, and executive environments. You bring strong judgment, clear communication, and the ability to lead through complex incidents, competing priorities, and organizational change.\nYou build high-performing teams and trusted partnerships while maintaining accountability for results. You can translate complex technical challenges into clear business impact and priorities and are focused on applying AI, automation, and observability in practical ways that improve reliability, efficiency, and user experience.\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES\nLead a globally distributed team of approximately 90 employees and contractors responsible for network engineering and 24x7 operations.\nOwn the performance, availability, security, and continuous improvement of AMD’s global data and voice network.\nLead major network incidents and escalations, ensuring effective communication, root-cause resolution, and actions that prevent recurrence.\nDrive disciplined Incident, Change, and Problem Management practices to meet SLAs and improve network reliability and user experience.\nDefine and execute the global network strategy and roadmap across infrastructure, lifecycle management, observability, automation, and AI-enabled operations.\nOwn the network observability strategy and capabilities, including Sigma and Optima, to provide actionable end-to-end visibility across the network environment.\nLead adoption of AI/AIOps and agentic automation to improve event correlation, anomaly detection, capacity planning, root-cause analysis, remediation, compliance, and knowledge management.\nEnsure network tools, automation, and operational knowledge continuously improve efficiency, visibility, and time to resolution.\nPartner with Information Security, Engineering Compute & Storage, AI/HPC infrastructure, IT teams, service providers, and vendors to deliver secure, scalable network capabilities.\nOversee concurrent network initiatives, communicating priorities, risks, progress, and operational performance to IT leadership.\nManage global network budgets and forecasts across hardware, software, support, labor, and connectivity services.\nEnsure network operations and the use of AI technologies align with AMD security, governance, and operational requirements.\nPREFERRED EXPERIENCE\nProven experience leading large, globally distributed network engineering and 24x7 operations organizations.\nDemonstrated success leading and developing high-performing technical teams in complex enterprise environments.\nStrong understanding of enterprise network architecture and operations, including LAN, data center networking, wireless, WAN, Internet routing, SD-WAN, WAN acceleration, and QoS.\nKnowledge of voice, video, telephony, unified communications, DNS/DHCP, IP address management, and F5 LTM/GTM load balancing.\nExperience with enterprise network management and observability technologies, including performance monitoring, streaming telemetry, SNMP/NetFlow, synthetic monitoring, and log analytics.\nExperience building and scaling observability platforms and data-driven network operations.\nExperience leading AI/AIOps and agentic automation initiatives within IT or network operations.\nExperience driving network automation across large-scale environments using technologies such as Python, Ansible, APIs, and infrastructure-as-code.\nUnderstanding of network architecture and requirements supporting AI/HPC data center environments is preferred.\nExperience managing multiple complex network initiatives, technology budgets, vendors, service providers, and infrastructure lifecycle planning.\nFamiliarity with ServiceNow Request, Incident, Problem, and Change Management processes.\nACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.\nLOCATION:\nSan Jose, CA\nThis role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.\nBenefits offered are described: AMD benefits at a glance.\nAMD does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. 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