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Base Salary
$136k - $204k/yr
Responsibilities
- Analyze network automation requirements and translate network engineering intent into explicit, testable specifications.
- Design and lead architecture for automation services, device drivers, data models, source-of-truth boundaries, and vendor abstractions.
- Develop and maintain Python services, REST APIs, background schedulers and workers, device drivers, configuration renderers, verification engines, and relational data-access layers.
- Automate multi-vendor device interactions using NETCONF, SSH/CLI, vendor APIs, and SNMP across production networks.
- Implement configuration diffing, drift detection, compliance verification, dry runs, staged rollouts, confirmed commits, and rollback paths.
- Conduct design reviews, code reviews, performance analysis, tuning, and technical leadership for large enhancements and integrations.
- Develop unit, cross-functional, device-level, virtual-lab, and automated tests for network-affecting software.
- Drive build and deployment pipelines, worker and scheduler capacity, database topology, credential storage, environment parity, migrations, and release promotion discipline.
- Define production change-control, certification, authorization, audit, maintenance-window, and rollback processes for automated network changes.
- Debug application and network incidents involving unreachable devices, failed commits, authentication failures, telemetry gaps, and stale inventory.
- Report platform health, device and site coverage, poll freshness, verification success, compliance exceptions, release status, and project estimates.
- Evaluate network automation, telemetry, applied AI, and machine-learning approaches while requiring validation and human oversight for device-affecting actions.
Requirements
- 8+ years of combined software engineering and network engineering or automation experience, including production ownership on both sides.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering.
- Strong Python experience building and maintaining services, including web frameworks, background task execution, testing, packaging, and dependency management.
- Hands-on automation for at least two of Juniper Junos, Cisco IOS-XE/NX-OS, Arista EOS, or Palo Alto PAN-OS using NETCONF, vendor APIs, or structured CLI.
- Practical experience with an automation framework or device library such as Ansible, NAPALM, Netmiko, Nornir, or PyEZ, plus template-driven configuration generation.
- Working knowledge of L2/L3 switching and routing, VLANs, LACP, BGP/OSPF, addressing, subnetting, device management, and out-of-band access.
- SQL and relational data modeling experience, including writing and tuning queries against a production schema.
- Experience with Git-based workflows, code review, and CI/CD.
- Production judgment for device-touching changes, including dry runs, diffs, staged rollouts, and rollback plans.
- Ability to use AI-assisted development tooling and review, correct, or reject generated code and configurations.
- Preferred experience with configuration compliance, drift detection, baseline configuration programs, network source of truth or IPAM, SNMP, syslog, streaming telemetry, Ansible at scale, Docker, Jenkins, Linux service operation, clustered databases or message brokers, virtual labs, data center or colocation networks, firewall and out-of-band console infrastructure, and AI or machine-learning operational tooling.
- Preferred certifications include JNCIP/JNCIE, CCNP/CCIE, PCNSE, or equivalent.
Benefits
- Targeted base pay for Dallas Infomart, United States: $136,000-$204,000 annually, excluding bonus, equity, and benefits.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Health, life, disability, and voluntary insurance plans for eligible employees and family members.
- Retirement plan with employee and Equinix contributions.
- Accrued paid time off and paid holidays, subject to eligibility requirements.
- Equal employment opportunity employer with disability accommodations available.
About Equinix
Equinix is a public digital infrastructure company that operates a global platform of colocation and interconnection data centers for enterprises, cloud and network providers. It sells space, power, and connectivity, plus services such as Equinix Fabric, Network Edge, and Equinix Metal for hybrid multicloud and edge deployments. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, it is listed on NASDAQ (EQIX) and runs hundreds of IBX facilities across major metros worldwide.