Senior Global Network Engineer – SD-WAN & Automation

NetApp; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 147,900 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

401(k) / Retirement Plans

Employee stock purchase plan

RSUs

Job summary

NetApp seeks a Senior Network Systems Engineer to join the Global Network Services team, owning enterprise routing, SD‑WAN, and campus networking on a worldwide scale. You will design, deploy, and operate complex infrastructure end-to-end across multiple regions, guiding day-to-day operations and escalated troubleshooting with an automation-first mindset.

The ideal candidate brings deep Cisco routing expertise, SD‑WAN proficiency (Catalyst SD‑WAN / Viptela), and a track record mentoring others

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on enterprise network engineering and operations, typically in a senior or lead role.
• Demonstrated ownership of complex, high-impact network infrastructure in a global environment.
• Strong troubleshooting discipline and structured incident-resolution skills under pressure.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work across regions and mentor others.

Responsibilities

• Own routing across the global routing estate — design, implement, and operate enterprise routing (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, route redistribution, path selection, and policy-based routing).
• Engineer and operate the Cisco SD-WAN environment (Catalyst SD-WAN / Viptela) — policy design, template management, onboarding new sites, and troubleshooting overlay/underlay issues.
• Lead campus networking across the global office and lab footprint — access/distribution/core, wireless, and network access — delivering reliable, secure, high-performance connectivity.
• Resolve escalated operational issues (Tier 3/4) — act as the senior escalation point for complex incidents, driving root-cause analysis and permanent resolution.
• Deliver new site builds, refreshes, and migrations — produce designs, interconnect matrices, and cutover plans; coordinate with vendors and installation partners through delivery.
• Drive network changes through structured change control — plan, risk-assess, and execute changes with appropriate testing, validation, and rollback.
• Maintain operational health through observability — use network monitoring and telemetry tooling to detect, diagnose, and pre-empt issues before they impact users.
• Contribute to standards, runbooks, and documentation — raise the quality bar for how the team designs, operates, and hands off work.
• Mentor junior engineers and share expertise — act as a technical mentor and multiplier across the team.
• Support automation and modernisation — partner with automation/SRE colleagues to codify recurring tasks, moving the team from manual operations toward infrastructure as code.

Skills

BGP

OSPF

EIGRP

Policy-based routing

Cisco IOS-XE

Cisco ASR/ISR

Catalyst 8000

SD-WAN

Campus networking

Network engineering

Tools

vManage

vBond

vSmart

Job description

NetApp seeks a Senior Network Systems Engineer to join the Global Network Services team, owning enterprise routing, SD‑WAN, and campus networking on a worldwide scale. You will design, deploy, and operate complex infrastructure end-to-end across multiple regions, guiding day-to-day operations and escalated troubleshooting with an automation-first mindset.

The ideal candidate brings deep Cisco routing expertise, SD‑WAN proficiency (Catalyst SD‑WAN / Viptela), and a track record mentoring others