2 hours ago
Base Salary
$136k - $204k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design automation frameworks to validate and certify vendor-agnostic network operating systems through feature validation, traffic profiling, regression testing, and customer-use-case simulation.
- Lead the design and implementation of the Environment-as-a-Service platform and migrate physical lab infrastructure to scalable, containerized, software-defined environments using Containerized Network Functions.
- Define provisioning roadmaps and enable self-service virtual network topologies for development and QA teams.
- Build reusable platform tooling and automation frameworks using Python, Go, and Elixir.
- Manage and debug Kubernetes clusters and deploy services using ArgoCD.
- Develop cloud-native applications and internal web applications providing visibility and control over the EaaS and automation platforms.
- Define monitoring standards, dashboards, intelligent alerting strategies, and SLI/SLO frameworks.
- Design network infrastructure spanning OSI Layers 1–3 and develop test plans and certification strategies for multi-vendor environments.
- Provide subject-matter expertise on BGP, MPLS, VXLAN, EVPN, ISIS, OSPF, and related networking protocols.
- Support vendor evaluations, feature-gap analyses, and network hardware and network operating system selection.
- Design and develop an MCP server and AI chatbot interface for EaaS and improve agentic workflows.
- Implement CI/CD pipelines, participate in code reviews, and establish guardrails for AI-generated code.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of experience in network engineering and automation.
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, electronics, computer engineering, or a related field is preferred.
- Strong understanding of OSI layers and hands-on routing and switching experience in multi-vendor, large-scale environments.
- Deep proficiency with BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, MPLS, VXLAN, EVPN, L3VPN, L2VPN, CNF, VNF, SR-IOV, and DPDK.
- Strong Python programming skills, including pytest and asynchronous programming; familiarity with Go and Elixir is preferred.
- Understanding of REST API design, GraphQL, gRPC, OpenConfig/YANG, NETCONF, RESTCONF, and gNMI.
- Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD, and cloud-native application patterns.
- Experience with Terraform and Ansible for infrastructure provisioning and configuration management.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and tools such as GitHub, GitHub Actions, and Jenkins.
- Hands-on experience with AWS Bedrock and AWS networking services including VPC, Transit Gateway, and Direct Connect.
- Deep familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, Tempo, and OTEL.
- Experience with AI-assisted development, prompt engineering, AI-generated code review, and AI/ML-powered developer tools is relevant to the role.
Benefits
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Health, life, disability, and voluntary insurance plans for employees and eligible family members.
- Retirement plan contributions by the employee and Equinix.
- Accrued paid time off and paid holidays.
- US-based role in the Dallas Infomart Office; benefits are subject to eligibility and plan terms.
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About Equinix
Equinix (Nasdaq: EQIX) is the world’s digital infrastructure company®, enabling digital leaders to harness a trusted platform to bring together and interconnect the foundational infrastructure that powers their success. Equinix enables today’s businesses to access all the right places, partners and possibilities they need to accelerate advantage. With Equinix, they can scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences and multiply their value.