Director, Cloud Networking, Google Cloud

Google

20 - 22 years

Bengaluru

Posted: 06/12/2025

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Job Description

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
20 years of experience leading software engineers across multiple geographies with a focus on networking platforms, load balancing, scalability, reliability, and high availability.
Experience with various infrastructure systems, the scope and impact of the systems, and the underlying technology.

Preferred qualifications:

Master's degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering.
Experience in customer-facing products roles, and in design, data structures, and algorithms with excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.
Experience as a site leader and ability to build and grow the team for a remote site, fostering engineering culture and ensuring successful execution on product outlook and strategy.
Understanding of private and public cloud design considerations and limitations in areas of virtualization, global infrastructure, distributed systems, load balancing, networking, massive data storage, and security, with technical publications and conference engagements.
Excellent organization and prioritization skills with outstanding communication skills.

About the job

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) provides external developers a set of services that allow them to run any or all of their applications on Google's infrastructure. The benefits include performance, scale, reliability, ease-of-use, and a pay-as-you-go cost model.

In this role, you will be responsible for providing strategic direction, technical oversight and operational management for a portfolio of critical products and infrastructure within the cloud networking team. As a leader of a geo distributed site, you will be instrumental in building a center of excellence, fostering a strong engineering culture with successful delivery of networking products. These include network observability, network monitoring, management of networking products, infrastructure platforms and driving the vision for intelligent, self-optimizing planet scale networks.

You will also lead a team of engineers to leverage Google’s market leading Gemini AI technologies to apply them towards the benefit of GCP users, especially in the areas of configuring, diagnosing, enhancing and enquiring about the state of their Cloud Networks.

In addition, you will be fully accountable for the strategic evolution of the platform, the organizational evolution of the team including hiring and performance management, and the cost and efficiency of the services comprising this platform.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

Responsibilities

Be responsible for developing networking infrastructure and networking products to enable Google Cloud Networking, including direct business generation and indirectly all of Google Cloud’s business.
Serve as a leader of a remote site and be instrumental in building a Center of Excellence, fostering an engineering culture and ensuring the successful delivery and evolution of key networking services and platforms.
Work with executive leadership, product and system managers, and technical leaders across the Cloud Networking team, and with site reliability engineering leaders owning these products and services.
Understand and learn the various infrastructure systems, the scope and impact of these systems, and the underlying technology.
Understand and evaluate the scalability and reliability to ensure the technical leads are always a step ahead of customer demands.

About Company

Google is a multinational technology company founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. It is best known for its search engine but also develops products and services in areas like online advertising (Google Ads), cloud computing (Google Cloud), operating systems (Android, Chrome OS), web browsers (Chrome), and consumer electronics (Pixel devices, Nest). Google is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., its parent company formed in 2015. It plays a major role in shaping the internet, AI, and digital innovation globally.