Senior Network Automation Architect & Platform Engineer

Equinix, Inc.; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Equinix, Inc. in Dallas is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer / Network Automation Architect to lead the architecture and development of a new network automation platform. You will design end-to-end solutions for multi-vendor environments involving Cisco, Juniper, Palo Alto, and Arista.

This hands-on role emphasizes coding and design, with mentorship of engineers and setting engineering standards while ensuring production stability and safe changes.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and building network automation systems.
• Hands-on coding in Python with production-grade software.
• Deep understanding of production networks and software platforms.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build a new network automation platform from the ground up.
• Develop production-quality Python services, REST APIs, background workers, schedulers, device drivers, and data-access layers.
• Expand zero-touch provisioning across a large, multi-vendor network environment.
• Translate network engineering standards and operational intent into testable, maintainable software.
• Create reusable automation patterns for Cisco and Juniper platforms while accounting for vendor-specific behaviors.
• Design relational data models using MariaDB or a comparable production database.
• Build Ansible-based automation capabilities, including inventory, reusable content, execution controls, and integration with platform services.
• Automate configuration generation, device onboarding, state collection, compliance verification, drift detection, firewall operations, and safe network change.
• Establish testing, validation, approval, deployment, and rollback requirements for software-driven network changes.
• Introduce responsible uses of AI-assisted development and agent-based workflows while maintaining human control over device-affecting actions.
• Reduce technical debt and modernize existing Python components without compromising production stability.
• Establish software engineering standards and mentor senior and junior engineers.
• Communicate technical roadmaps, platform health, delivery risks, and architecture decisions to engineering and senior leadership.

Skills

Python development

Network automation

Architecture design

REST APIs

Ansible

MariaDB

Testing frameworks

AI-assisted engineering tools

Tools

Ansible

MariaDB

REST APIs

Python libraries

Job description

Equinix, Inc. in Dallas is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer / Network Automation Architect to lead the architecture and development of a new network automation platform. You will design end-to-end solutions for multi-vendor environments involving Cisco, Juniper, Palo Alto, and Arista.

This hands-on role emphasizes coding and design, with mentorship of engineers and setting engineering standards while ensuring production stability and safe changes.