Senior Network Engineer - ACI/SDA & Automation (Remote)

Pace Industries, LLC; United States; Remote; USD 108,000 - 159,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Annual bonus opportunities

Job summary

Pace Industries, LLC is seeking a Senior Network Architect/Engineer to design, implement, and support an enterprise, multi-datacenter network spanning routing, switching, fabric, and security. This remote role requires periodic travel to the Seattle area.

The successful candidate will lead complex troubleshooting, architect Cisco ACI and SDA fabrics, manage BGP/OSPF, and champion network automation using Python and Ansible to enforce policy and speed deployments.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing and operating enterprise network environments.
• Strong knowledge of Cisco ACI, SDA, BGP/OSPF, and data center fabric design.
• Automation with Python and Ansible to drive policy deployment and configuration consistency.

Responsibilities

• Designs scalable, resilient network solutions across routing, switching, fabric, and security domains.
• Leads complex troubleshooting efforts, including routing protocol issues, fabric/switching connectivity, and firewall policy conflicts.
• Architects and maintains Cisco ACI fabric environments, including tenant design, endpoint groups, contracts, and fabric integration.
• Architects and maintains Cisco SD-Access (SDA) fabric environments, including underlay/overlay design, fabric edge/border/control-plane nodes, and DNA Center-based policy and segmentation.
• Designs, configures, and troubleshoots BGP and OSPF routing environments, including route redistribution, policy control, and multi-site architectures.
• Architects highly available switching infrastructure across Nexus, ACI, and SD-Access fabric environments, including VXLAN/EVPN-based segmentation and fabric-based redundancy to eliminate single points of failure.
• Configures, maintains, and troubleshoots Palo Alto Networks firewalls, including security policy design, NAT, VPN, and threat prevention.
• Designs and manages network access control (NAC) policies and device compliance using Forescout or Aruba Clearpass.
• Serves as an escalation point for high-level, service-impacting network issues.
• Identifies, reviews, and recommends security postures to peers and appropriate security teams.
• Researches, evaluates, and recommends hardware, software, and vendor solutions based on cost, performance, and business need.
• Leads implementation planning prior to installation of network hardware such as routers, firewalls, wireless controllers, and switches.
• Develops project plans and task lists for network initiatives, and participates in peer design reviews.
• Partners with vendors and third-party providers to evaluate and integrate new equipment and services.
• Creates and maintains technical documentation, network diagrams, and standard operating procedures.
• Mentors and provides technical guidance to less experienced engineers.
• Participates in on-call support rotation per team design.
• Architects and implements automation and infrastructure-as-code pipelines (Python, Ansible) to drive configuration consistency, enforce compliance, and accelerate policy deployment across the enterprise network and security fabric

Skills

Network Architecture & Design

Network Automation & SRE (Python, AnsI

Troubleshooting & RCA

Network Documentation

Mentoring & Leadership

Client/Stakeholder Communication

Education

CCNP or higher (Routing & Switching / Enterprise / Data Center); CCIE preferred

Job description

Pace Industries, LLC is seeking a Senior Network Architect/Engineer to design, implement, and support an enterprise, multi-datacenter network spanning routing, switching, fabric, and security. This remote role requires periodic travel to the Seattle area.

The successful candidate will lead complex troubleshooting, architect Cisco ACI and SDA fabrics, manage BGP/OSPF, and champion network automation using Python and Ansible to enforce policy and speed deployments.