Network Infrastructure Engineer — Data Center Automation

Hamilton Barnes Associates Limited; United States; On-site; USD 213,000 - 288,000; Full time

Job summary

Hamilton Barnes Associates Limited is seeking a Network Infrastructure Engineer to lead the architecture and roadmap for production networks in a high-growth infrastructure environment. You will design data center fabrics, interconnects, and host networking while building automation for provisioning and observability.

You will create a unified source of truth, bring new data center capacity online, and drive safe changes with strong incident leadership in a fast-paced AI workloads environment.

Qualifications

• Built and operated production networks across data centers or other large infrastructure environments.
• Strong software engineering skills in Go, Python, Rust, or a similar language.
• Built network automation, internal platforms, or infrastructure software used in production.
• Deep knowledge of TCP/IP, BGP, routing, switching, network security, and modern data center fabrics.
• Experience across physical infrastructure, network hardware, Linux systems, and software-defined networking.
• Experience with configuration management, infrastructure as code, automated validation, and network observability.
• Strong operational judgment. You design for partial failure, safe changes, rollback, and recovery.
• Led unclear, cross-functional infrastructure work from design through

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and technical roadmap for Mount Thor’s production network.
• Design and operate data center fabrics, site connectivity, host networking, customer networks, and management networks.
• Build software for network provisioning, configuration, validation, deployment, and lifecycle management.
• Establish a source of truth for topology, addressing, configuration, inventory, and operational state.
• Bring new sites and capacity online. Own the path from design and physical deployment through validation and production handoff.
• Build observability across devices, links, hosts, and workloads. Find performance loss and failures before they affect customers.
• Improve availability, capacity, security, and recovery time. Lead incidents and turn recurring failures into durable fixes.
• Make agentic development and operation core to the network platform. Use coding agents throughout engineering work. Build tools that let agents investigate state, take safe action, validate results, and elevate exceptions.

Skills

Production networks

Go

Python

Rust

Network automation

Infrastructure software

TCP/IP

BGP

Routing

Switching

Linux systems

Software-defined networking

Infrastructure as code

Observability

Configuration management

Partial failure design

Job description

Hamilton Barnes Associates Limited is seeking a Network Infrastructure Engineer to lead the architecture and roadmap for production networks in a high-growth infrastructure environment. You will design data center fabrics, interconnects, and host networking while building automation for provisioning and observability.

You will create a unified source of truth, bring new data center capacity online, and drive safe changes with strong incident leadership in a fast-paced AI workloads environment.