Senior Data Center Network Architect

Megaport; City of Brisbane; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working environments

Training and development opportunities

Legend and Kudos Awards

Health and wellness program

Job summary

Megaport is seeking an experienced Compute Networking engineer to design and evolve data centre fabrics underpinning its bare metal and accelerated compute platform. You will collaborate with internal teams and external partners to deliver fast, predictable, and operable infrastructure across time zones, including Australia and Brazil experience.

You’ll lead design, testing, certification, and automation initiatives while maintaining vendor relationships and contributing to next-gen network

Qualifications

• Strong background in networking and telecommunications.
• Strong understanding of IP routing, QoS, MTU, resiliency and network failure scenarios.
• Practical experience with BGP, EVPN-VXLAN and leaf-spine architecture.
• Experience with large scale DC networks.
• Experience with large scale MPLS networks.
• Experience writing scripts to automate tasks.
• Desirable: knowledge in Perl and Python.
• Desirable: understanding of Agile environments.
• Bonus: RoCEv2, RDMA, Priority Flow Control and ECN.
• Bonus: Linux networking and Infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Bonus: operational experience with SNMP & sFlow.

Responsibilities

• Evaluation, testing and certification of new network hardware, systems and software.
• Design and deploy resilient leaf-spine network fabrics for GPU, AI and high-performance compute infrastructure.
• Design and operate IP fabrics using BGP, EVPN-VXLAN and ECMP.
• Support GPU frontend, backend, storage, management and out-of-band network connectivity.
• Configure and operate switches, routers, and data centre interconnects.
• Implement congestion management capabilities, including QoS, ECN and Priority Flow Control where required.
• Integrate GPU data centres with Megaport transport, internet transit, cloud and external connectivity services.
• Running proof of concept exercises with integration partners
• Development of next generation network and systems architectures
• Develop network architecture standards, low-level designs, implementation plans and operational documentation.
• Maintain technical relationships with vendor engineering teams
• Evolving network automation and monitoring systems (Capacity/Latency/Congestion/Availability)
• Providing technical support to internal and external customers
• Working with internal teams to assist with deployments and operations
• Provide technical summaries to enable executive leadership team to make sound business decisions
• Last level escalation point for network operations, operations engineering and network engineering teams.

Skills

Networking

IP Routing

BGP

EVPN-VXLAN

Leaf-Spine Architecture

Scripting

Agile

Linux Networking

Data Analytics

Tools

Perl

Python

SNMP

sFlow

Job description

Megaport is seeking an experienced Compute Networking engineer to design and evolve data centre fabrics underpinning its bare metal and accelerated compute platform. You will collaborate with internal teams and external partners to deliver fast, predictable, and operable infrastructure across time zones, including Australia and Brazil experience.

You’ll lead design, testing, certification, and automation initiatives while maintaining vendor relationships and contributing to next-gen network