{"id":2722022,"url":"https://alion.io/job/nscale-technical-program-manager-wan","title":"Technical Program Manager - WAN","company":{"id":48155,"name":"Nscale","domain":"nscale.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/nscale","size_band":"501-1000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":90,"open_postings":27,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.185,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":63,"computed_at":"2026-10-17T05:46:00Z"}},"role":"Product","role_family":"Product","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":106000,"max_usd":198000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":42},"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"BGP","optional":false},{"name":"HPC","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-16T13:56:59Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-16","last_verified_at":"2026-10-17T13:16:59Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":".\nTechnical Program Manager - WAN\nAbout Nscale\nNscale is the GPU cloud engineered for AI. We provide cost-effective, high-performance infrastructure for AI start-ups and large enterprise customers. Nscale enables AI-focused companies to achieve superior results by reducing the complexity of AI development. Our GPU cloud bolsters technical capabilities and directly supports strategic business outcomes, including cost management, rapid innovation, and environmental responsibility.\nWe thrive on a culture of relentless innovation, ownership, and accountability, where every team member takes pride in their work and drives it with excellence and urgency. As an Nscaler, you'll build trust through openness and transparency, where everyone is inspired to do their best work. If you join our team, you'll be contributing to building the technology that powers the future.\nAbout the Role\nWe're looking for a Technical Program Manager - WAN to lead the planning, coordination, and delivery of Nscale's wide-area network across Europe. You'll make sure our backbone, interconnects, and new site connectivity are delivered on time, at scale, and with high reliability.\nYou'll sit within our Deployment organisation, a build org that owns every step from hardware arrival through to customer acceptance, and drive cross-functional programmes spanning Network Engineering, Data Centre Operations, carriers, and commercial teams. The role involves regular travel to sites and partners.\nWhat You'll be Doing\nDrive end-to-end WAN programme delivery, including backbone expansion, new site and region bring-up, capacity upgrades, and network optimisation.\nBuild and manage detailed programme plans, tracking dependencies, identifying risks early, and keeping delivery on schedule.\nCoordinate Network Engineering, Infrastructure, SRE, Procurement, and external vendors to deliver against milestones.\nManage carriers, dark fibre and wavelength providers, IXPs, and hardware vendors through ordering, provisioning, and issue resolution.\nMake sure WAN deployments meet performance, reliability, and scalability requirements before they go into production and are handed to customers.\nPut in place processes, tools, and reporting that improve execution, visibility, and predictability.\nGive clear, regular updates to leadership and stakeholders on progress, risks, and outcomes.\nAbout You\n5+ years in technical programme or project management, ideally in networking or infrastructure.\nExperience delivering large-scale WAN, telecom, or data centre interconnect programmes, ideally at a hyperscaler or major network vendor (e.g. Microsoft, AWS, Oracle/OCI, Cisco).\nSolid understanding of WAN concepts: BGP and routing, capacity planning, fibre, DWDM, peering, and transit.\nProven ability to manage complex, multi-stakeholder programmes with strong planning, risk management, and dependency tracking.\nExperience working with carriers, ISPs, and infrastructure vendors.\nStrong stakeholder management and executive communication skills.\nWillingness to travel across Europe as needed.\nNice to Have\nExperience in hyperscale or cloud infrastructure environments.\nFamiliarity with AI/ML or HPC infrastructure requirements.\nExperience with network deployment at global scale across multiple countries.\nPMP, PgMP, or similar certification.\nWhy this role matters\nOur WAN connects every Nscale site to our customers. This role decides how quickly new capacity comes online and how reliably it performs once it does.\nEqual Opportunities Statement\nAt Nscale, we are committed to fostering an inclusive, diverse, and equitable workplace. We believe that a variety of perspectives enriches our work environment, and we encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, experiences, and abilities. We strongly encourage applications from people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds.\nIf there's anything we can do to accommodate your specific situation, please let us know.\nThe responsibilities outlined in this job description are not exhaustive and are intended to provide a general overview of the position. 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