Senior Network Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Design, construct, and manage a high-availability, two-layer Spine-and-Leaf network architecture that underpins managed network, cloud, and colocation services.

• Take ownership of the routing core, multi-homed internet edge, and multi-tenant customer services across various data centers and customer locations.

• Serve as a senior escalation point for both network and customer service incidents.

• Collaborate with Cloud Platform and virtualization teams.

• Spearhead network architecture and automation initiatives.

• Address complex customer challenges and maintain communication during outages.

• Guide and mentor other engineers through design and change reviews.

• Design and enhance IP Spine-Leaf networks utilizing BGP, ECMP, OSPF/IS-IS, and VXLAN/EVPN.

• Formulate an internet edge strategy that encompasses upstream transit, peering, IXP presence, customer BGP sessions, route policy, and RPKI/ROV.

• Design and implement managed customer services like dedicated internet access, L2/L3VPN, managed firewall, and SD-WAN.

• Enhance network availability, resilience, quality, and security while leading technology projects.

• Conduct root cause analysis, post-incident reviews, and implement corrective improvements.

• Plan and execute changes, upgrades, and migrations in a 24x7 operational environment with minimal impact on customers.

• Monitor utilization and growth through NetFlow/IPFIX, SNMP, and streaming telemetry; drive capacity upgrades accordingly.

• Maintain configurations under version control and promote CI/CD-driven network changes.

• Document and uphold architecture standards, high- and low-level designs, runbooks, and other necessary documentation.

• Assess vendors, platforms, optics, upstream transit, and colocation contracts, contributing to budget and roadmap planning.

• Collaborate with sales engineering and service delivery on solution design, customer onboarding, and SLA reporting.

• Ensure adherence to company and customer policies.

• Engage in a rotating on-call schedule.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field experience.

• Over 6 years of network engineering experience, with a minimum of 5 years in a Telco, ISP, CLEC, or MSP/CSP environment providing services to external customers preferred.

• Extensive knowledge of BGP: eBGP/iBGP, route reflectors, communities, upstream and customer route policy, multi-homed transit, and peering.

• In-depth experience with ECMP, OSPF and/or IS-IS in large-scale designs, including fast-convergence tuning.

• Familiar with data center fabric and overlay technologies (EVPN-VXLAN, VMware NSX) along with hypervisor networking.

• Hands-on experience with carrier-class platforms such as Arista EOS, Juniper Junos, Cisco IOS-XR, or Nokia SR OS.

• Strong capability in IPv6 design and dual-stack deployment.

• Experience in QoS design for multi-service networks (DiffServ, H-QoS, policing and shaping, CoS).

• Knowledge of internet edge security including route filtering, IRR, RPKI/ROV, MANRS practices, and DDoS mitigation strategies.

• Working knowledge of optical transport, encompassing DWDM and coherent 100G/400G optics.

• Familiarity with implementing and supporting SNMP, RADIUS, TACACS+, Syslog, ACLs, VRFs, and next-gen firewalls.

• Proficient in scripting and automation using Python and Ansible; familiarity with CloudVision is a plus.

• Experience with network analysis tools and packet capture analysis.

• Proven track record of leading major incidents and changes in a 24x7 MSP environment with customer SLAs, employing ITIL-style incident, change, and problem management practices.

• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to create designs, runbooks, and incident reports.

• Capability to lift 50 lbs.

• Preferred: CCIE Service Provider, JNCIE-SP, Arista, ACE-L5+, or Nokia SRA certification.

• Preferred: experience with PCE/PCEP and SDN controllers.

• Preferred: hands-on experience with MPLS for multi-tenant service delivery.

• Preferred: experience with Carrier Ethernet OAM and MEF service delivery.

• Preferred: knowledge of Azure networking and virtual network appliances within Azure, AWS, and GCP.

• Preferred: experience with telemetry and analytics tools such as Kentik, Grafana, Prometheus, or ELK.

• Preferred: familiarity with NetDevOps practices, Git workflows, automated testing, and pipeline-driven deployment.

• Preferred: over 10 years of experience with multiple certifications and a demonstrated history of delivering carrier networking services.

🏝️ Benefits

• Full-time employment.

• Participation in a rotating "on call" schedule (compensation not specified).