Sr. Network Automation Engineer (Rahoof)
$111,000–$225,500 year
On-siteCalifornia, United States or Santa Clara, California, United States
Job Summary
Configure, maintain, and troubleshoot multi-vendor routers, switches, firewalls, and load balancers across hundreds of global Points of Presence. Manage BGP peering sessions with transit providers and internet exchanges, tune route policies, and install new ISP links while monitoring circuit capacity. Continuously monitor network health dashboards to identify degradation patterns, perform packet captures for root cause analysis, and execute zero-downtime software upgrades with documented rollback procedures. Build monitoring tools and dashboards to improve visibility into performance and availability, using traffic engineering to minimize latency and balance load across regions. Own day-to-day operations end-to-end, proactively identifying and resolving risks before they reach customers.
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of hands-on network engineering experience in production internet-facing data center or SaaS environments
- Multi-vendor routing and switching expertise — Cisco, Juniper, and Arista; comfortable configuring and troubleshooting across all three in production
- Expert-level BGP — peering and transit configurations, route policy design, path optimization, and troubleshooting for IPv4 and IPv6 at scale
- Firewall operations experience in production environments — Juniper SRX, Palo Alto, Cisco ASA/FTD, or equivalent
- Load balancer and GTM/GSLB experience — F5 BIG-IP, Citrix ADC, or equivalent; virtual server management, health monitoring, global traffic management across multiple regions
- Strong L2 through L7 protocol knowledge — spanning-tree, LACP, MLAG, VLANs, BGP, OSPF, DNS, NTP, SNMP, SSH, Syslog, HTTP/S, SSL/TLS
- Experience with network monitoring platforms and dashboard tooling; ability to read utilization trends and build meaningful alert thresholds
- Proficiency with packet capture and traffic analysis tools (Wireshark, tcpdump)
- Solid Linux experience including basic scripting
- Background in KVM/ESXI hypervisor networking
- Strong documentation habits — change records, runbooks, architecture diagrams, and post-incident write-ups
- BSCS or equivalent required
- MSCS or equivalent strongly preferred
Desired Qualifications
- Prior experience in a public-facing SaaS, cloud, or internet infrastructure environment strongly preferred
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