Responsibilities
- Develop and manage strategic partnerships with telecommunications carriers, dark fiber suppliers, and connectivity providers.
- Negotiate master service agreements, IRUs, and circuit contracts to secure favorable terms.
- Maintain a comprehensive matrix of carrier capabilities, pricing, and lead times across all operational markets.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for carrier capacity needs and preferred partner for collaboration.
- Oversee end-to-end circuit procurement, from initial requirements to contract signing, provisioning, and testing.
- Procure various types of connectivity, including dark fiber, lit wavelengths, dedicated internet access, and transport services.
- Track all circuit orders through to activation using disciplined project management practices.
- Ensure datacenter launches proceed without delays caused by missing or late connectivity.
- Collaborate with infrastructure and carrier engineering teams to confirm physically diverse fiber routes to each facility.
- Analyze KMZ files, fiber path maps, and conduit records to verify true physical diversity beyond logical separation.
- Assess entrance facilities, meet-me rooms, and demarcation points for technical compatibility and redundancy.
- Proactively identify potential single points of failure in network architecture.
- Lead planning and monitoring of construction projects involving new conduit, lateral builds, or fiber extensions.
- Coordinate between carriers, construction teams, and regulatory agencies during buildouts.
- Account for standard construction phases—permitting, trenching, splicing, testing—when scheduling projects.
- Align connectivity delivery timelines with datacenter build milestones.
- Contribute to backbone network design by recommending POP locations based on carrier availability, interconnection options, latency, and cost.
- Evaluate colocation sites for suitability as backbone network nodes.
- Forecast capacity needs and plan circuit upgrades in advance of projected demand.
- Provide critical insights that inform national network buildout decisions.
- Support peering discussions with internet service providers, content networks, cloud platforms, and exchange operators.
- Analyze the economic viability and technical options for interconnection at proposed sites.
- Manage cross-connect ordering and letter of authorization processes.
- Ensure interconnection strategy accommodates existing traffic and anticipated growth.
- Act as the expert on connectivity during datacenter site selection processes.
Compensation
competitive total compensation package including salary and equity
Team
small team operating with speed, high quality standards, full ownership of outcomes, a culture of questioning assumptions, and treating customer challenges as internal priorities
Other
- Offers a competitive total compensation package consisting of salary and equity.
- Provides a retirement or pension plan aligned with local standards.
- Includes health, dental, and vision insurance benefits.
- Features a generous paid time off policy consistent with regional norms.
- Is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.
- Considers qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in compliance with applicable laws.
- Sends a confirmation email upon successful application submission.
- Requests applicants to contact careers@fluidstack.io with resume/CV, role applied for, and submission date if no confirmation is received.
