Senior Network Engineer (Ashburn,VA)

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Our team is responsible for architecting, designing, implementing, and maintaining robust network infrastructures for data centers and DCI optical networks. We ensure seamless connectivity, security, and reliability within campus and across global data center networks. We develop tools and automate processes to support our hyper-growth.

As a Senior Network Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role as a technical leader and exemplar within our team. We seek an individual who crafts and implements technology solutions aligned with business and technical goals, stays abreast of cutting-edge networking research, fosters collaboration across teams, and adeptly balances competing priorities. In addition to leadership acumen, a successful Senior Network Engineer should demonstrate sufficient proficiency in both networking and software engineering.

This role, due to the business needs of the team, requires employees to be physically present in the specified office on a full-time basis. This helps to ensure you are best equipped to be successful and have the experience you need to fulfill the responsibilities of the role. This role will be based in Ashburn, Virginia.

Responsibilities:

• Review architectures, network designs, automated network provisioning and tools, and provide recommendations for continuous improvements in all aspects of the network, including network performance, capacity, reliability, and observability.
• Design, deploy, and operate a large-scale network for data center infrastructure and backbone across multiple geographical regions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align implementation with business objectives.
• Perform network maintenance and upgrades.
• Identify gaps and develop solutions to automate deployments and auto-remediate network faults.
• Network security and compliance.
• Participate in on-call rotation, resolve network outages, conduct post-mortem and remediation plans.
• Evaluate new platforms to address scaling challenges and drive requirements with OEMs/ODMs to support our technology stack.