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Within GGII, the Global Network Operations (GNO) team is responsible for ensuring our production network performs to expectations for our internal and external customers. This is accomplished through the engineering improvement of Google’s network observability capabilities and automating of our repair pipeline.\nAs the Director, Global Network Operations (GNO) you will define and execute the strategic production of our Engineering Operations Roadmap. You will lead a high-performing organization of Network Engineers, Technical Program Managers, Software Engineers and Data Analysts to uncover and surface insights that help us more powerfully assess and attend to our network performance. You will partner closely with other platform owners and software teams to ensure our Management, Control, and Forwarding planes are well engineered and working in harmony to produce SLOs that delight our internal and external customers. You will develop and influence future technical leadership for Google’s Global Infrastructure organization through mentorship, role-modeling and project assignment. You will be a loud voice for network quality, even as we grow it at unprecedented scale.\nThe AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what’s possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide.\nWe're the driving force behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting-edge AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. 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