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Working at Yale means contributing to a better tomorrow. Whether you are a current resident of our New Haven-based community, eligible for opportunities through the New Haven Hiring Initiative, or a newcomer, interested in exploring all that Yale has to offer, your talents and contributions are welcome. Discover your opportunities at Yale!
Overview
Yale ITS seeks an experienced networking leader to serve as Associate Director, Network Engineering, responsible for the architecture, design, modernization, and lifecycle management of Yale's enterprise network infrastructure.
This role provides technical leadership for Yale's next-generation network strategy, including the evolution of a large-scale Cisco-based software-defined campus network, network resiliency initiatives, network automation, and the design of the network and data center network fabric supporting Yale's research, academic, and administrative missions.
The Associate Director will lead a team of network engineers and serve as Yale's principal authority for network architecture and engineering standards. Working closely with the Director of Network and Data Center Services, the Manager of Network Operations, the Associate Director of Data Center Services, Information Security, Automation Engineering, and Observability Engineering, this role will drive the technical direction of Yale's network infrastructure while ensuring it remains secure, resilient, scalable, and operationally sustainable.
Success in this role requires balancing strategic vision with engineering execution, modernizing infrastructure while building the foundation for a more automated, observable, and resilient network platform.
Network Architecture & Engineering Leadership
- Lead the architecture, engineering, and lifecycle management of Yale's campus-wide network infrastructure.
- Define and maintain engineering standards, reference architecture, and design principles across routing, switching, wireless, segmentation, and connectivity services.
- Serve as the senior technical authority for Yale's Cisco-based network environment and future networking technologies.
- Develop and maintain the strategic network roadmap aligned with university growth, research demands, and enterprise technology initiatives.
- Ensure network architectures support high availability, scalability, security, and operational simplicity.
Campus Network Modernization
- Lead the ongoing evolution of Yale's next-generation network architecture.
- Drive network refresh initiatives across campus, establishing multi-year strategies for hardware lifecycle management and technology adoption.
- Develop architectural approaches that improve performance, reduce operational complexity, and simplify supportability.
- Evaluate emerging networking technologies and recommend adoption where they provide measurable institutional value.
- Partner with operational leaders to ensure modernized designs can be effectively supported and maintained.
Data Center Fabric Engineering & Future-State Design
- Lead the engineering strategy for Yale's data center network architecture and fabric modernization.
- Partner closely with the Associate Director of Data Center Services to define future-state network designs supporting on-premises, colocation, and cloud-connected environments.
- Design highly resilient network topologies that eliminate single points of failure and support critical enterprise and research workloads.
- Develop architectures supporting disaster recovery, business continuity, and hybrid infrastructure strategies.
- Establish network standards and patterns that enable scalable growth and improved service resiliency.
Network Automation & Infrastructure as Code
- Champion an automation-first engineering culture across the networking organization.
- Partner with Automation Engineering to expand Infrastructure as Code capabilities for network provisioning, configuration management, compliance validation, and lifecycle management.
- Reduce operational risk through standardized, repeatable, and automated engineering practices.
- Drive adoption of automation frameworks and tools that improve engineering efficiency and service reliability.
- Establish engineering standards that minimize manual intervention and improve consistency across network services.
Network Resiliency & Reliability Engineering
- Design resiliency in all major network platforms and services.
- Lead initiatives focused on redundancy, fault tolerance, failover validation, and network recovery capabilities.
- Develop engineering standards for availability, capacity planning, and performance management.
- Partner with Information Security and Network Operations to ensure network architectures support operational resilience and security requirements.
- Routinely assess architectural risks and develop mitigation strategies.
Security Architecture Partnership
- Collaborate closely with Information Security and cybersecurity leadership to ensure secure-by-design network architectures.
- Support network segmentation, zero-trust initiatives, secure access strategies, and threat containment capabilities.
- Ensure engineering standards align with institutional security requirements and regulatory obligations.
- Participate in security architecture reviews and strategic technology planning.
- Observability Engineering Partnership
- Partner with Observability Engineering to establish comprehensive visibility into network performance, health, utilization, and user experience.
- Drive adoption of telemetry, analytics, and next-generation monitoring capabilities.
- Ensure network architectures produce meaningful operational data
Observability Engineering Partnership
- Partner with Observability Engineering to establish comprehensive visibility into network performance, health, utilization, and user experience.
- Drive adoption of telemetry, analytics, and next-generation monitoring capabilities.
- Ensure network architectures produce meaningful operational data to support proactive service management.
Required Skills and Abilities:
1. Proven ability to manage and develop staff.
2. Well-developed time management, organizational, oral, and written communication, and presentation skills.
3. Proven ability to recognize problems and create effective plans.
4. Proven ability to manage multiple/complex projects, meeting deadlines and budget.
Principal Responsibilities
1. Oversees and manages in the strategic planning process; disseminates strategic goals to the team and ensures goals are implemented; develops and establishes best practices. 2. Manages, hires, develops existing as well as new staff; assists in the workforce staffing plans. 3. Responsible for making moderate to significant improvements of processes, systems, and functional output of the department or work/objectives of a team/s. 4. Participate in the development of communication plans for administrative, operational, or technical changes; determine timeline for the dissemination of communications and the support and resource requirements associated with each change. 5. Analyzes and resolves problems through drawing from prior experiences. Interprets policies (e.g., fiscal management, HR, contracts, resource management in defined areas). 6. Supervises staff to assure accountability and stewardship of campus resources (operational, financial, and human) in compliance with departmental goals and objectives. Required Education and Experience Bachelor's Degree and eight years of experience or equivalent education and experience. Skills and Abilities Proven ability to manage and develop staff. Well-developed time management, organizational, oral, and written communication, and presentation skills. Proven ability to recognize problems and create effective plans. Proven ability to manage multiple/complex projects, meeting deadlines and budget.Job Posting Date
11/10/2026Job Category
ManagerBargaining Unit
NONCompensation Grade
GS-4Compensation Grade Profile
GS-4iSalary Range
$112,500.00 - $168,750.00Benefits
A general description of the benefits to be offered with this Managerial & Professional position is available at:Yale Benefits
Time Type
Full timeDuration Type
StaffWork Model
HybridBackground Check Requirements
All candidates for employment will be subject to pre-employment background screening for this position, which may include motor vehicle, DOT certification, drug testing and credit checks based on the position description and job requirements. All offers are contingent upon the successful completion of the background check. For additional information on the background check requirements and process visit "Learn about background checks" under the Applicant Support Resources section of Careers on the It's Your Yale website.
Health Requirements
Certain positions have associated health requirements based on specific job responsibilities. These may include vaccinations, tests, or examinations, as required by law, regulation, or university policy.
Posting Disclaimer
Salary offers are determined by a candidate’s qualifications, experience, skills, and education in relation to the position requirements, along with the role’s grade profile and current internal and external market conditions.
The intent of this job description is to provide a representative summary of the essential functions that will be required of the position and should not be construed as a declaration of specific duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees will be assigned specific job-related duties through their hiring department.
The University is committed to basing judgments concerning the admission, education, and employment of individuals upon their qualifications and abilities and seeks to attract to its faculty, staff, and student body qualified persons from a broad range of backgrounds and perspectives. In accordance with this policy and as delineated by federal and Connecticut law, Yale does not discriminate in admissions, educational programs, or employment against any individual on account of that individual’s sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, age, disability, status as a special disabled veteran, veteran of the Vietnam era or other covered veteran.
Inquiries concerning Yale's Policy Against Discrimination and Harassment may be referred to the Office of Institutional Equity and Accessibility (OIEA).
Note
Yale University is a tobacco-free campus.
Description
Working at Yale means contributing to a better tomorrow. Whether you are a current resident of our New Haven-based community, eligible for opportunities through the New Haven Hiring Initiative, or a newcomer, interested in exploring all that Yale has to offer, your talents and contributions are welcome. Discover your opportunities at Yale!
Overview
Yale ITS seeks an experienced networking leader to serve as Associate Director, Network Engineering, responsible for the architecture, design, modernization, and lifecycle management of Yale's enterprise network infrastructure.
This role provides technical leadership for Yale's next-generation network strategy, including the evolution of a large-scale Cisco-based software-defined campus network, network resiliency initiatives, network automation, and the design of the network and data center network fabric supporting Yale's research, academic, and administrative missions.
The Associate Director will lead a team of network engineers and serve as Yale's principal authority for network architecture and engineering standards. Working closely with the Director of Network and Data Center Services, the Manager of Network Operations, the Associate Director of Data Center Services, Information Security, Automation Engineering, and Observability Engineering, this role will drive the technical direction of Yale's network infrastructure while ensuring it remains secure, resilient, scalable, and operationally sustainable.
Success in this role requires balancing strategic vision with engineering execution, modernizing infrastructure while building the foundation for a more automated, observable, and resilient network platform.
Network Architecture & Engineering Leadership
- Lead the architecture, engineering, and lifecycle management of Yale's campus-wide network infrastructure.
- Define and maintain engineering standards, reference architecture, and design principles across routing, switching, wireless, segmentation, and connectivity services.
- Serve as the senior technical authority for Yale's Cisco-based network environment and future networking technologies.
- Develop and maintain the strategic network roadmap aligned with university growth, research demands, and enterprise technology initiatives.
- Ensure network architectures support high availability, scalability, security, and operational simplicity.
Campus Network Modernization
- Lead the ongoing evolution of Yale's next-generation network architecture.
- Drive network refresh initiatives across campus, establishing multi-year strategies for hardware lifecycle management and technology adoption.
- Develop architectural approaches that improve performance, reduce operational complexity, and simplify supportability.
- Evaluate emerging networking technologies and recommend adoption where they provide measurable institutional value.
- Partner with operational leaders to ensure modernized designs can be effectively supported and maintained.
Data Center Fabric Engineering & Future-State Design
- Lead the engineering strategy for Yale's data center network architecture and fabric modernization.
- Partner closely with the Associate Director of Data Center Services to define future-state network designs supporting on-premises, colocation, and cloud-connected environments.
- Design highly resilient network topologies that eliminate single points of failure and support critical enterprise and research workloads.
- Develop architectures supporting disaster recovery, business continuity, and hybrid infrastructure strategies.
- Establish network standards and patterns that enable scalable growth and improved service resiliency.
Network Automation & Infrastructure as Code
- Champion an automation-first engineering culture across the networking organization.
- Partner with Automation Engineering to expand Infrastructure as Code capabilities for network provisioning, configuration management, compliance validation, and lifecycle management.
- Reduce operational risk through standardized, repeatable, and automated engineering practices.
- Drive adoption of automation frameworks and tools that improve engineering efficiency and service reliability.
- Establish engineering standards that minimize manual intervention and improve consistency across network services.
Network Resiliency & Reliability Engineering
- Design resiliency in all major network platforms and services.
- Lead initiatives focused on redundancy, fault tolerance, failover validation, and network recovery capabilities.
- Develop engineering standards for availability, capacity planning, and performance management.
- Partner with Information Security and Network Operations to ensure network architectures support operational resilience and security requirements.
- Routinely assess architectural risks and develop mitigation strategies.
Security Architecture Partnership
- Collaborate closely with Information Security and cybersecurity leadership to ensure secure-by-design network architectures.
- Support network segmentation, zero-trust initiatives, secure access strategies, and threat containment capabilities.
- Ensure engineering standards align with institutional security requirements and regulatory obligations.
- Participate in security architecture reviews and strategic technology planning.
- Observability Engineering Partnership
- Partner with Observability Engineering to establish comprehensive visibility into network performance, health, utilization, and user experience.
- Drive adoption of telemetry, analytics, and next-generation monitoring capabilities.
- Ensure network architectures produce meaningful operational data
Observability Engineering Partnership
- Partner with Observability Engineering to establish comprehensive visibility into network performance, health, utilization, and user experience.
- Drive adoption of telemetry, analytics, and next-generation monitoring capabilities.
- Ensure network architectures produce meaningful operational data to support proactive service management.
Required Skills and Abilities:
1. Proven ability to manage and develop staff.
2. Well-developed time management, organizational, oral, and written communication, and presentation skills.
3. Proven ability to recognize problems and create effective plans.
4. Proven ability to manage multiple/complex projects, meeting deadlines and budget.
Principal Responsibilities
1. Oversees and manages in the strategic planning process; disseminates strategic goals to the team and ensures goals are implemented; develops and establishes best practices. 2. Manages, hires, develops existing as well as new staff; assists in the workforce staffing plans. 3. Responsible for making moderate to significant improvements of processes, systems, and functional output of the department or work/objectives of a team/s. 4. Participate in the development of communication plans for administrative, operational, or technical changes; determine timeline for the dissemination of communications and the support and resource requirements associated with each change. 5. Analyzes and resolves problems through drawing from prior experiences. Interprets policies (e.g., fiscal management, HR, contracts, resource management in defined areas). 6. Supervises staff to assure accountability and stewardship of campus resources (operational, financial, and human) in compliance with departmental goals and objectives. Required Education and Experience Bachelor's Degree and eight years of experience or equivalent education and experience. Skills and Abilities Proven ability to manage and develop staff. Well-developed time management, organizational, oral, and written communication, and presentation skills. Proven ability to recognize problems and create effective plans. Proven ability to manage multiple/complex projects, meeting deadlines and budget.Job Posting Date
11/10/2026Job Category
ManagerBargaining Unit
NONCompensation Grade
GS-4Compensation Grade Profile
GS-4iSalary Range
$112,500.00 - $168,750.00Benefits
A general description of the benefits to be offered with this Managerial & Professional position is available at:Yale Benefits
Time Type
Full timeDuration Type
StaffWork Model
HybridBackground Check Requirements
All candidates for employment will be subject to pre-employment background screening for this position, which may include motor vehicle, DOT certification, drug testing and credit checks based on the position description and job requirements. All offers are contingent upon the successful completion of the background check. For additional information on the background check requirements and process visit "Learn about background checks" under the Applicant Support Resources section of Careers on the It's Your Yale website.
Health Requirements
Certain positions have associated health requirements based on specific job responsibilities. These may include vaccinations, tests, or examinations, as required by law, regulation, or university policy.
Posting Disclaimer
Salary offers are determined by a candidate’s qualifications, experience, skills, and education in relation to the position requirements, along with the role’s grade profile and current internal and external market conditions.
The intent of this job description is to provide a representative summary of the essential functions that will be required of the position and should not be construed as a declaration of specific duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees will be assigned specific job-related duties through their hiring department.
The University is committed to basing judgments concerning the admission, education, and employment of individuals upon their qualifications and abilities and seeks to attract to its faculty, staff, and student body qualified persons from a broad range of backgrounds and perspectives. In accordance with this policy and as delineated by federal and Connecticut law, Yale does not discriminate in admissions, educational programs, or employment against any individual on account of that individual’s sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, age, disability, status as a special disabled veteran, veteran of the Vietnam era or other covered veteran.
Inquiries concerning Yale's Policy Against Discrimination and Harassment may be referred to the Office of Institutional Equity and Accessibility (OIEA).
Note
Yale University is a tobacco-free campus.
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in associate director of engineering jobs.
- 7 or more years of software engineering experience with at least 3 in a leadership role
- Demonstrated experience managing and growing engineering teams of five or more
- Proficiency in cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
- Strong background in agile development methodologies and cross-functional delivery
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a closely related technical field
- Experience partnering with product management to define roadmaps and prioritize engineering work
Tips for Your Associate Director of Engineering Job Search
Quantify your team and delivery impact
Hiring managers at this level want to see headcount owned, budget managed, and outcomes shipped. Replace phrases like 'led engineering teams' with specific numbers: engineers managed, release cycles owned, and infrastructure costs reduced or revenue enabled.
Align your resume to the org stage
An associate director role at a 50-person startup means something different than the same title at a Fortune 500. Read the job description carefully and mirror the language around scale, autonomy, and reporting structure so your experience lands in the right context.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists associate director of engineering openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target postings by tech stack and domain
Filter openings by the specific stack you've led, whether that's cloud-native, embedded systems, or data platform work. Applying to roles where your stack matches signals immediate productivity and shortens the gap you'd need to close in an interview.
Prepare a cross-functional influence story
Interviewers at this level probe how you've aligned engineering with product, design, and business stakeholders. Prepare two or three concrete examples where you drove a decision that crossed team boundaries, including what you pushed back on and why.
Negotiate scope before negotiating anything else
Before discussing compensation, clarify reporting lines, the number of direct reports, and what 'success in 90 days' means. Scope mismatches are the most common reason associate directors leave within a year, and negotiating them early costs you nothing.
Associate Director of Engineering Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most associate director of engineerings?
The companies hiring the most associate director of engineerings right now include Humana, Merck, and AbbVie, with the largest share of openings in Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Illinois, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand is especially concentrated in technology, financial services, and healthcare organizations scaling their engineering organizations.
How many associate director of engineering jobs are remote?
About 92% of associate director of engineering openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting sustained flexibility at this seniority level. Platform engineering, data infrastructure, and backend-focused roles tend to offer the highest share of remote options, while roles requiring hands-on hardware, lab, or on-site team leadership are more likely to be fully in-person.
How do you become a associate director of engineering?
Most people reach associate director of engineering by progressing through senior individual contributor roles into engineering manager or staff engineer positions, then taking on broader team and program ownership. Building a record of shipping complex projects, managing engineers through feedback cycles, and influencing technical decisions across teams is what typically moves a candidate from manager to director-level consideration.
Can you get hired as an associate director of engineering with limited leadership experience?
It's possible if you've led high-impact projects or acted as a tech lead without holding a formal manager title. Emphasize any experience where you owned outcomes across a group of engineers, drove architectural decisions, or coordinated delivery across multiple workstreams. Some companies, particularly those growing quickly, will consider strong staff or principal engineers ready to step into the management track at this level.
What does the associate director of engineering interview process look like?
The process typically includes an initial recruiter screen, a technical discussion focused on system design and architectural decision-making, and a leadership panel where you walk through how you've built teams, handled performance issues, and aligned engineering with business priorities. Final rounds often include a conversation with a VP of Engineering or CTO, and sometimes a cross-functional interview with product or design leaders.
Where can I find and apply to associate director of engineering jobs?
You can find and apply to associate director of engineering jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from companies across the United States. Search for roles that match your experience in terms of team size, tech stack, and industry, then apply directly to each listing that fits.
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