Lead Network Engineer

Job Title: Lead Networking Engineer

Location: Hybrid, Wallingford (Monthly Visits)

Job Type: Permanent, Full-time

About the Job

At Dexory, we believe that real time data will revolutionise the logistics industry. We are building the ultimate data insights platform that provides companies with unprecedented, real time access to their operations. Our autonomous data capture technology and insights generation capabilities help to measure, track and find goods across warehouses in real time, while building the ultimate digital twin of facilities.

Join us at a very exciting time of growth as we’re significantly ramping up all areas of the business to lead the way in logistics data globally, backed by some of Europe’s best VCs and driven by passion, curiosity and teamwork.

We value humility and we're as interested in your character as we are in your talent. Please apply, even if you feel you only meet part of our listed criteria. Diversity drives innovation and we offer an international and friendly work environment with an energetic company culture.

What does this role involve?

As the Lead Networking Engineer at Dexory, you will be pivotal in ensuring the robustness and reliability of connectivity to all our systems. Dexory robots are installed on customer sites across the world with different connectivity requirements leveraging customer WiFi with fallback to 4G/5G, presenting unique challenges to maintain a reliable and robust connection between our cloud infrastructure and the robots.
This role involves working with the SRE team to maintain a reliable and well-monitored cloud networking architecture to ensure we maintain connection to the robots.
You will collaborate with customer support and integration teams to address site-specific connectivity challenges, and meet customer IT teams to develop tailored connectivity plans. Leveraging your expertise in building and maintaining systems for long-term network reliability and security across our platform.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Working with the SRE team to provide a well-monitored and maintained infrastructure to maintain connectivity to our robots.
• Collaborating with the customer support and integrations team to ensure connectivity to our cloud is available on customer sites.
• Meeting with customer IT teams to develop plans for site connectivity.
• Planning future network architectures for a cloud based global infrastructure and building documentation and specifications for reliable network connectivity.
• Developing systems to ensure a long-term reliable and robust network infrastructure.
• Investigating and resolving network and connectivity issues on individual robots and developing solutions to improve connectivity across the fleet.

You should have:

• Extensive experience in cloud based networking, with a focus on globally-distributed platforms.
• Extensive experience with IoT connectivity, Linux-based networking, Wireguard and OpenWRT would be a benefit in this role.
• Strong knowledge and experience of physical networks.
• Strong knowledge of network monitoring and maintenance practices.
• Proven experience in working with customer IT teams to develop connectivity plans.
• Proficiency in building and maintaining documentation and specifications for network connectivity.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to resolving network issues.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across teams and with external stakeholders.
• A deep understanding of security and auditability requirements for network infrastructure.

Benefits

Joining our team and company isn't just about expertise: it's about an attitude that embraces uncertainty, a desire to solve challenging problems, and an opportunity to contribute to a technology platform that genuinely is state-of-the-art. As a company, we’re still in the scale-up phase of our life, so you’ll have a significant role in shaping the future of our products, culture, and engineering team. We offer a fun, flexible, and fast-paced environment that’s a great match for people looking for something out of the norm.

You will receive:

• The incredible opportunity to join an early stage company and work towards your future goals
• Share options
• Private healthcare
• Attractive employee wellness benefits
• Personal development budget
• 25 holidays per year
• Full meals onsite
• Fun team events on and offsite, snacks of all kinds in the office

AAP/EEO Statement  

Dexory provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment. It prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, colour, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training