Network Engineering Manager

At i3D.net, we provide world-class global coverage with one of the most interconnected networks in the world. Our solutions focus on low latency, zero packet loss, and unmatched scalability, enabling seamless experiences for millions of users worldwide. With dedicated support, bespoke solutions, and cutting-edge technology, we deliver reliable, cost-efficient infrastructure that empowers game developers and businesses to scale effortlessly. Partnering with major names like Nvidia, DuckDuckGo, and Ubisoft, we are shaping the future of gaming and network technology. At i3D.net, our product suite spans the full spectrum of infrastructure solutions: * Metal: Dedicated servers providing raw compute power. * Unified Platform: Enhancing our core Metal product with tools for game hosting, and platforms, to ensure seamless user experiences, including Anti-DDoS, Bare Metal Cloud, Anti-Cheat, and more. * Network: A global backbone delivering robust connectivity solutions, including IP transit. * SmartDC: Colocation services through our data centers in Rotterdam, Paris, and Montreal. WHY YOUR ROLE MATTERS The Production discipline at i3D.net is a team of 5 producers, including the Production Director, who work across a wide range of products. We set standards, bring structure and help teams deliver complex products efficiently and predictably. For our Network initiative, we are looking for a Producer/ Product Manager who will also act as Delivery Lead for products such as Network Automation and Monitoring, the new network fabric, network security products, Network-as-a-Product and our anti-DDOS solution. In this role, you help bring clarity, momentum, and accountability to multidisciplinary teams. You give people the rituals, tools and direction they need to deliver high quality work at pace, while promoting a healthy and sustainable way of working. You also coach other producers and help raise the bar for the entire discipline. WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING * Set direction with Product and Engineering: Work with product managers, technical leads and subject matter experts to define clear goals, scope and timelines for your products and initiatives. * Run the delivery engine: Lead stand-ups, backlog refinements, sprint reviews, and retrospectives. Keep the team aligned, focused, and hitting their milestones without sacrificing balance or wellbeing. * Drive accountability and quality: Make sure commitments are clear, tracked, and delivered. Guard quality standards and help teams stay predictable in terms of scope, timelines, and outcomes. * Build and maintain production standards: Shape and improve discipline standards such as roadmaps, milestone plans, requirement documents, test plans, risk registers, post-mortems and output reporting. * Manage resources and capacity: Review team capacity, identify skill or staffing gaps and work with discipline leaders to ensure teams have what they need to deliver. * Spot and mitigate risks early: Actively manage dependencies, surface issues and unblock teams before they slow down progress. * Improve communication across teams: Chair meetings, structure documentation and run workshops or trainings to help teams collaborate smoothly. * Coach and develop producers: Support producers in your discipline, help them grow their craft and make sure they consistently apply production standards. * Track performance and output: Produce metrics on velocity, effort and team efficiency to help teams and leadership understand progress. WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE IN THE FIRST YEAR * Trusted partner: You are seen as a reliable partner for both the Network Product Group and the Production discipline. * Organized and dependable: Teams describe you as organized, predictable and supportive, while firm when needed. * Predictable delivery: Your projects run smoothly with clear planning, excellent communication, and high quality output. * Standards embedded: Teams understand and use production standards and can run most rituals independently thanks to your coaching. * Strong sparring partner: Other producers rely on you for process improvements, complex delivery challenges and raising the discipline’s quality bar. ABOUT YOU * Proven leadership in production: You bring 5+ years of project management or production experience, guiding multidisciplinary teams of 10+ people. * Strong affinity with technical projects: You are comfortable applying your production and project management craft within multidisciplinary teams working on complex technical projects. Experience with infrastructure, networking, or datacenters is a plus. * Track record of shipping complex projects: You have led and delivered several large technical projects using agile or waterfall. * Adaptive and people-centered communication: You balance warmth and firmness and adjust your approach to different personalities and situations. * Excellent stakeholder operator: You work confidently with many types of stakeholders and keep momentum and accountability high. * Experienced coach: You help others reach discipline standards and tailor your coaching to their needs and experience. * EU-Work permit and location: This is a hybrid role based in Rotterdam. You must have a valid EU work permit. WHY JOIN I3D.NET? * We have been around: Join a company with 20+ years of sustainable growth and a global focus. * Global (gaming) customers: Work on core projects that make an impact for big names like Ubisoft and Discord. * Meaningful Impact: Shape how customers access and manage hosting and networking services in one central platform. * Hybrid Work Setup: Enjoy the flexibility of a hybrid role with a work-from-home budget and top-tier tools. * Career Growth: Access education reimbursement, career guidance, and opportunities to upskill. * Competitive Perks: Annual bonus, 25 vacation days (excluding national holidays), travel allowance, and a solid pension plan. * Stay Active: Free access to our in-house gym in Rotterdam. * Free Games: Enjoy lifetime access to Ubisoft’s game library

At i3D.net, we provide world-class global coverage with one of the most interconnected networks in the world. Our solutions focus on low latency, zero packet loss, and unmatched scalability, enabling seamless experiences for millions of users worldwide. With dedicated support, bespoke solutions, and cutting-edge technology, we deliver reliable, cost-efficient infrastructure that empowers game developers and businesses to scale effortlessly. Partnering with major names like Nvidia, DuckDuckGo, and Ubisoft, we are shaping the future of gaming and network technology. WHY YOUR ROLE MATTERS As a Senior Systems Engineer, you’ll take ownership of the stability, automation, and performance of our internal systems infrastructure. You’ll work across CI/CD pipelines, container tooling, system tuning, and infrastructure-as-code to support real-time workloads on a global scale. The infrastructure you'll be automating is running in i3D.net's own data centers, so you will have the opportunity to work with the whole vertical stack of hardware, hypervisors, Linux management, Kubernetes clusters and other private cloud offerings. The role spans the full lifecycle, from deploying and automating services to maintaining and improving the reliability of systems running in our bare-metal and hybrid environments. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES * Design and Build Platform Features: You’ll co-architect new platform features, making sure they’re scalable, reliable, and work smoothly across middleware components like ProxMox and Kubernetes. * Automate and Optimize Infrastructure: You’ll automate the setup and management of infrastructure using tools like Terraform and Ansible, improving the performance and efficiency of systems like databases, web servers, and message queues. * CI/CD Pipeline Development: You’ll create and maintain CI/CD pipelines that help keep our development process smooth and efficient, enabling continuous integration and delivery across different environments. * Monitor and Log Systems Health: You’ll implement and manage monitoring and logging solutions to make sure everything is running smoothly, using tools like Nagios, Prometheus, Grafana, and others. * Collaborate on Systems Engineering Strategy: You’ll work closely with other teams to make sure the systems engineering strategies align with business goals and the overall product roadmap. * Ensure Security and Compliance: You’ll put security best practices into action and ensure that we meet all relevant standards and regulations to keep our platform safe and sound. * Promote SRE and GitOps Practices: You’ll advocate for Reliability and GitOps practices, helping create a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence across the team. * Mentorship and Knowledge Sharing: You’ll mentor junior engineers and share your knowledge with the team, encouraging best practices and a focus on learning and growth. TECH STACK At i3D.net, you’ll work with: * Infrastructure & Tools: Linux (mainly Debian and Alpine), containers & Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, GitHub Actions workflows, ArgoCD * Middleware: nginx, OpenSearch, RabbitMQ * Databases: MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Redis/Keydb * Observability: Nagios, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE IN THE FIRST YEAR * You’ve made the systems engineering platform more reliable, scalable, and easier to maintain * You’ve automated infrastructure tasks and reduced manual overhead * You’ve improved CI/CD pipelines to support faster, safer deployments * You’ve strengthened observability and security across the platform * You’ve contributed to the platform roadmap and supported your teammates through mentoring and collaboration ABOUT YOU * Strong Linux Expertise: Deep hands-on experience managing Linux systems in bare-metal or hybrid environments, beyond purely cloud-native setups, including container-optimized or minimal distributions. * Systems Engineering Experience: At least 4 years working with highly available, distributed, high-traffic systems such as game servers, media platforms, or global APIs, with strong uptime and performance requirements across staging and production. Design experience is a plus. * Private Cloud exposure: Experience deploying and operating Private Cloud platforms, for example OpenStack, with responsibility for production stability and lifecycle management. * Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC): Proven use of Ansible and Terraform to provision and manage infrastructure at scale. * CI/CD & GitOps: Proven use of Ansible and Terraform to provision infrastructure at scale, and solid experience building and maintaining GitHub Actions workflows, pipelines with GitOps tooling such as Argo CD. * Observability experience: Hands-on experience with Prometheus and Grafana in production environments, ideally within multi-tenant or regulated contexts. * Collaboration & Mentorship: Experience working in SRE, DevOps, or platform teams, mentoring engineers through code reviews and incident retrospectives, and contributing to internal tooling and documentation. * Remote vs Onsite: This is a hybrid role, so you'll spend some time working onsite at our Rotterdam office. If you're already in the Netherlands, great. If not, we're happy to support your move with our relocation services (a valid EU work permit is required). WHY JOIN US? * Global Impact: Help build and operate our internal platform on our own hardware, deployed across multiple data centers worldwide, with a focus on performance, scalability, and reliability. * Innovation at Scale: Drive the orchestration and automation of our bare-metal platform, ensuring full control, scalability, and high performance across global deployments. * Hybrid Work Setup: Enjoy the flexibility of a hybrid role with a work-from-home budget and top-tier tools. * Career Growth: Access education reimbursement, career guidance, and opportunities to upskill. * Competitive Perks: Annual bonus, 25 vacation days (excluding national holidays), travel allowance, and a solid pension plan. * Stay Active: Free access to our in-house gym in Rotterdam. * Free Games: Enjoy lifetime access to Ubisoft’s game library