Senior Data Center Compute Networking Engineer

Megaport; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working environments

Training and development opportunities

Health & wellness programs

Job summary

Megaport is seeking a Senior Compute Networking professional to design, build, and evolve data centre fabrics for bare metal and accelerated compute platforms, spanning leaf-spine architectures and GPU/storage networks. The role requires collaboration with Brazil-based teams, vendors, and internal engineers to ensure fast, predictable, and operable infrastructure.

You will lead the local presence in Australia, coordinating across time zones, driving automation, and delivering scalable networking

Qualifications

• Strong background in networking and telecommunications.
• Experience with BGP, EVPN-VXLAN and leaf-spine architecture.
• Experience with large scale DC networks.
• Ability to script to automate tasks.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate, test and certify new network hardware, systems and software.
• Design and deploy leaf-spine networks for GPU/AI HPC infrastructure.
• Operate IP fabrics using BGP, EVPN-VXLAN and ECMP.
• Support GPU frontend, backend, storage, management and out-of-band network connectivity.
• Develop network architecture standards, low-level designs, implementation plans and operational documentation.

Skills

Networking & telecommunications

IP routing & QoS

Scripting (Python/Perl)

Cloud/DC concepts

Tools

Automation tooling

Job description

Megaport is seeking a Senior Compute Networking professional to design, build, and evolve data centre fabrics for bare metal and accelerated compute platforms, spanning leaf-spine architectures and GPU/storage networks. The role requires collaboration with Brazil-based teams, vendors, and internal engineers to ensure fast, predictable, and operable infrastructure.

You will lead the local presence in Australia, coordinating across time zones, driving automation, and delivering scalable networking