Job Title: Technical Program Manager, Infrastructure
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Company: Google
The area: Engineering
• Simply put, Google engineers make computers do amazing things. Populated by extraordinarily creative, motivated and talented people, our Engineering team gets excited by developing new applications that really make a difference and are used by millions of people.
• We're driven by Google's mission to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
• If you seek to tackle such challenges as building a highly scalable computing infrastructure, novel storage systems, innovative user experiences or the next big application that will change the world, then this might be a perfect fit for you.
The role: Technical Program Manager, Infrastructure
• Technical Program Managers are the core of managing Google's continued growth.
• As the first Technical Program Manager based in Africa, you will have the opportunity to make a significant impact.
• Specifically you will be responsible for driving the progress of various initiatives focused on infrastructure.
• These include helping Universities strengthen their ICT services, working between ISPs and IXPs to increase peering agreements, managing Google infrastructure deployments and lots, lots more.
• Ideally coming from a senior operations & infrastructure engineering background you will have gained extremely strong business project management skills and have great judgement when it comes to evaluating infrastructure challenges and implied cost or engineering efforts.
• Based in Lagos, Nigeria you will be expected to travel frequently within Africa and to our offices in Zurich and California.
Responsibilities:
• Manage technical projects or programs, working closely with external partners, Google engineers and technical staff to design and launch infrastructure projects.
• Gather requirements and define the scope of the project. Find resources, manage resource allocation for projects. Develop a plan and schedule, with well-defined milestones.
• Manage communication of progress/status within the core team and external to the team (customers, partners, etc); escalate issues as necessary.
Requirements:
• Computer Science degree or equivalent experience. Masters or PhD preferred.
• Experience managing multiple international projects and people acting as a technical lead.
• Proven ability to work on assignments that require data evaluation, recommendation development, and decision making.
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