Senior Network Automation Engineer, EaaS Platform

Equinix; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 136,000 - 204,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Assistance Program

US Benefits package

Job summary

Equinix, the world’s digital infrastructure company, seeks a Senior Staff Software Engineer for the Network Platform Engineering team. You will design, build, and scale the Environment‑as‑a‑Service platform while advancing the network automation platform.

Collaborate across Product, Engineering, Operations, and Observability to accelerate testing and deployment pipelines. You will lead hands-on technical efforts, influence direction, and mentor teams while delivering scalable, containerized,

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Network Engineering and Automation.
• Bachelor's in Electrical engineering, Electronics, Computer Engineering or Related Field preferred.
• Strong understanding of OSI layers and multi-vendor routing/switching.
• Proficiency in Python (required); Go and Elixir preferred.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD.
• Infrastructure as Code tooling: Terraform, Ansible for provisioning.
• CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices including trunk-based development.
• Familiarity with AWS services and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana).

Responsibilities

• Design and build automation frameworks to validate NOS and CNF environments.
• Lead the EaaS platform development and migration from physical labs to containerized test environments.
• Define provisioning roadmaps for on‑demand, self‑service topologies.
• Translate stakeholder requirements into engineering tasks and automated tests.
• Build platform tooling and maintain high-quality code across teams.
• Operate and debug Kubernetes clusters and deployments with ArgoCD.
• Develop cloud-native applications and SFU/SLI/SLO frameworks for reliability.
• Contribute to frontend/backend internal apps for visibility and control, collaborate with UX/product.
• Contribute in code reviews and CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Python

Go

Elixir

Kubernetes

ArgoCD

Docker

Helm

Terraform

Ansible

CI/CD

Prometheus/Grafana

Education

Bachelor's in Electrical/Electronics/Computer Eng or related field

Tools

CNF

VNF

Job description

Equinix, the world’s digital infrastructure company, seeks a Senior Staff Software Engineer for the Network Platform Engineering team. You will design, build, and scale the Environment‑as‑a‑Service platform while advancing the network automation platform.

Collaborate across Product, Engineering, Operations, and Observability to accelerate testing and deployment pipelines. You will lead hands-on technical efforts, influence direction, and mentor teams while delivering scalable, containerized,