Senior Network Architect – Enterprise & Data Center

PacBio; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

PacBio seeks a Sr. Staff Network Engineer to own architecture across enterprise, lab, manufacturing, and data centers. You will design high-throughput paths from instruments to storage and cloud, drive network standards, and lead hybrid-cloud networking with AWS/Azure.

This senior individual contributor also mentors teams and partners with security to implement zero-trust approaches. You will oversee WAN/LAN, data center, and wireless networks, ensuring reliability and regulatory readiness while

Qualifications

• 10+ years of network engineering experience with 3+ years owning architecture in a multi-site enterprise.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Own the multi-year network roadmap for LAN, WAN/SD-WAN, wireless, data centers, colocation and cloud connectivity.
• Design resilient, high-throughput network paths from sequencing instruments to on-prem storage and AWS/Azure compute; address bottlenecks.
• Architect data center and colocation networks (spine-leaf, LAG/MLAG).
• Define network standards for topology, addressing, BGP/OSPF, DNS, IPAM, and reference designs.
• Lead hybrid-cloud networking designs (AWS Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, VPCs, Azure).
• Escalation point for complex incidents; lead root-cause analysis and post-incident reviews.
• Plan network lifecycle refreshes and site moves with minimal disruption.
• Own enterprise Wi‑Fi performance across facilities; monitor coverage, roaming, auth, and optimization.
• Manage ISP/carrier services; renewal and cost optimization with IT leadership.
• Partner with Information Security on firewall policies, segmentation, NAC/802.1X, and zero-trust access.
• Segment OT/ICS networks; support change controls, audits, ISO/SOX evidence.
• Integrate network and firewall logs with security monitoring and investigations.
• Advance network‑as‑code, configuration management and automation (Python, Ansible, Terraform).
• Mentor engineers, review designs, assess vendors, and communicate risks to stakeholders.

Skills

Network architecture

Multi-site enterprise

BGP/OSPF

Cisco Arista Juniper

EVPN VXLAN

Palo Alto Fortinet

Okta IAM

AWS Direct Connect

Networking automation

Python Ansible

Zero Trust

Wi‑Fi design

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Cisco IOS

Arista EOS

Juniper JUNOS

EVPN/VXLAN tooling

Terraform

Job description

PacBio seeks a Sr. Staff Network Engineer to own architecture across enterprise, lab, manufacturing, and data centers. You will design high-throughput paths from instruments to storage and cloud, drive network standards, and lead hybrid-cloud networking with AWS/Azure.

This senior individual contributor also mentors teams and partners with security to implement zero-trust approaches. You will oversee WAN/LAN, data center, and wireless networks, ensuring reliability and regulatory readiness while