Location: Denver, CO; Seattle, WA

Job Type: Full-Time

Department: Tract Capital Management — Site Communications & Network Infrastructure

Reports To: VP, Site Communications & Network Infrastructure

Company Overview

Tract Capital adopts a unique approach to digital infrastructure investment. Leveraging experience and strategic insights honed over three decades of creating successful companies in the space, we excel in nurturing and advancing leading-edge digital infrastructure enterprises. Our team of specialized experts are united by a singular purpose: to support the growth of digital infrastructure. Tract Capital goes beyond simple investment by acting as a strategic partner and catalyst for innovation within the sector. We ensure our engagements not only generate strong financial results but also develop essential digital infrastructure to meet growing demands.

Position Overview

The Manager, Network Engineering leads the active network engineering discipline within Tract Capital’s Site Communications & Network Infrastructure organization, owning the pre-construction design and construction-phase delivery of all Layer 2 / Layer 3 network infrastructure across the company’s data center campuses.

It is accountable for the design and build of campus LAN and EVPN/VXLAN fabric, IP routing and addressing, segmentation, SD-WAN and WAN edge, firewall policy, metro and carrier connectivity, site-to-site VPN, mesh Wi-Fi and Private 5G, and the OT network layer carrying BMS, SCADA/EPMS, DCIM, and physical security systems — along with the network standards, policy set, performance-monitoring definition, and as-built record for every campus.

Reporting to the VP, Site Communications & Network Infrastructure, this leader manages a team that includes the Senior Network Engineer, the Wireless & Private 5G Engineer, and the Network Commissioning Technician, and works shoulder-to-shoulder with the peer Managers of Inside Plant (ISP) and Outside Plant (OSP) Engineering — Network Engineering delivers the active L2/L3 layer riding on the physical plant those teams build, so the three disciplines are planned, sequenced, and commissioned as one campus package.

The Manager translates design intent into buildable, secure, schedule-certain network packages and works with the Network Operations Center and Operations leadership to turn commissioned environments over cleanly. This is a Design & Build role — 24×7 monitoring, incident response, and moves/adds/changes are owned by the separate Daily Operations organization.

This is a player-coach leadership role anchored in hands-on IP networking: the Manager sets direction and standards, holds genuine routing, switching, and network security depth, and holds vendors accountable for quality and schedule — while leaning on the team’s specialists in wireless/Private 5G and commissioning.

Job Responsibilities

The successful candidate will have practical experience across many of the following:

Directly lead, manage, and develop a small team of three specialists — the Senior Network Engineer, the Wireless & Private 5G Engineer, and the Network Commissioning Technician — owning hiring, goal-setting, and performance management, allocating work against the campus build schedule, and building cross-coverage so the team can support multiple concurrent campuses without single points of failure.
Own the Network Engineering function end-to-end — campus LAN and leaf-spine EVPN/VXLAN fabric, IP routing and addressing, VLAN and VRF segmentation, SD-WAN and WAN edge, firewalls, and network services (DNS/DHCP/IPAM, AAA/802.1X) — from pre-construction design through commissioning and as-built turnover.
Design and validate site-to-site VPN and encrypted interconnect architecture across campuses, remote facilities, vendor support paths, and OT remote access — IPsec/IKEv2 tunnel design, crypto and key management, redundancy and failover, and MTU/performance tuning.
Own the network standards and policy set for Design & Build — reference architectures, configuration and device-hardening standards, IP addressing and naming conventions, segmentation and security policy, and acceptance criteria — governing design reviews, exceptions, and revision control.