Sr Technical Manager, Network Sourcing and Provisioning

About Yahoo

It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of hundreds of millions of people. Whether you’re looking to write mobile app code, engineer the servers behind our massive ad tech stacks, or develop algorithms to help us process trillions of data points a day, what you do here will have a huge impact on our business—and the world.

A Little About Us

Yahoo is committed to building brands people love and serves as a trusted guide for hundreds of millions of people globally. Our products include the Yahoo Homepage (www.yahoo.com), and Comscore #1 sites in News, Sports and Finance.

The Role: Sr Technical Manager, Network Sourcing and Provisioning

The Carrier Relations/IPAL team is sourcing and provisioning Infrastructure services (Data Centers, colo PoPs and bandwidth connectivity) to support Global Production Network and Corp Offices connectivity with emphasis on Network Architecture diversity requirements. We manage contract continuity for renewals and/or vendor/route changes, to achieve network efficiency and cost reduction (OpEx). Managing Peering turn-ups and partnerships. We promote and enable team-members self-sufficiency and ownership models.

As the Sr Technical Manager, Network Sourcing and Provisioning, you will:

• Collaborate with Network Engineering and Architecture teams to gather connectivity requirements (locations, type of circuit, capacity, etc.)
• Manage the RFP/RFQ process, gathering pricing and KMZs when applicable from several key vendors/carriers to qualify circuit diversity and/or resilience.
• Manage Architecture meetings to perform in-depth KMZ reviews/analysis.
• Negotiate desired terms and pricing with the selected vendor and Yahoo Legal.
• Provide end-to-end provisioning support (from time of quote and ordering to the service being put into production).
• Support NOC and Network Engineering Teams with production turn-ups and technical support (to include vendor management and escalation where necessary).
• Manage internal Yahoo IX bilateral Peering Queue for improved peering connectivity.
• Manage vendor relationships with various transport and colocation providers.
• Be responsible for creating and tracking circuit requirements.
• Collaborate with the Finance team on funds allocation and billing reconciliation.

A Lot About You

You are an Experienced Technical Manager with expertise in Infrastructure, Networks and Telecommunication Services. Strong ability to procure and deliver bandwidth. Manage network circuit provisioning and data centers buildouts. Manage Infrastructure Vendors and Carriers with Contract negotiations. You are a a self-starter and can run several projects simultaneously. You are smart, self-driven, and spend time trying to figure out how something works, not stopping with just knowing that it does. You like to relentlessly automate everything and anything at scale.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Telecommunications experience with BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Good knowledge of vendor transport solutions (DIA, Ethernet, Waves, Dark Fiber, e.g).
• Solid understanding of bandwidth hierarchy for transport requirements (100Mbps, GigE, 10Gig, 100Gig, e.g).
• Solid experience with router/switch configuration with Juniper background preferred.
• Experience with the ServiceNow platform or other types of circuit provisioning tools and database is preferred.
• Knowledge of IP networking, DNS, load balancing and CDNs preferred.

Key skills/competency

• Network Sourcing
• Telecommunications
• Provisioning
• Vendor Management
• Contract Negotiation
• Infrastructure Services
• RFP/RFQ Process
• Network Architecture
• ServiceNow
• IP Networking