Senior Network Engineer - Global Retail & Enterprise

Apple Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. is seeking a Senior Network Engineer in Austin, TX to design, validate, and deploy scalable network solutions for Retail and Enterprise environments worldwide.

You will translate business needs into engineering designs, lead pilots and deployments, and collaborate with architects, security, and operations to ensure secure, reliable connectivity for employees and customers. You will establish standards, drive qualification programs, and mentor engineers while communicating complex

Qualifications

• 7+ years designing and deploying large-scale enterprise, campus, Retail, or service-provider networks across multiple sites or geographic regions.
• Deep knowledge of enterprise and data center routing/switching (BGP, EVPN, VXLAN, Route Reflectors, VRF, OSPF, IPv4/IPv6, multicast, QoS, segmentation) and enterprise wireless networking (RF design, Wi‑Fi standards, authentication, roaming, capacity planning, wireless security).
• Strong troubleshooting skills, with the ability to analyze complex interactions across networks, applications, security controls, devices, and infrastructure services.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business and operational requirements into production-ready technical solutions, working independently across multiple concurrent initiatives.
• Experience producing clear, accurate technical documentation, including design specifications and engineering standards
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills, with demonstrated ability to collaborate with senior leaders, business stakeholders, architects, security teams, engineers, operational teams, and vendors.

Responsibilities

• Understand business priorities, operational challenges, and technology strategies across Retail and Enterprise environments.
• Partner with business owners, Architecture, Engineering, Security, and Operations to translate business and experience needs into technical requirements and measurable success criteria.
• Develop secure, reliable, scalable, and supportable wired, wireless, WAN, remote-access, and network-security solutions.
• Convert architectural direction into detailed designs, configurations, bills of material, implementation plans, and operational acceptance criteria.
• Evaluate solution alternatives and communicate tradeoffs involving performance, availability, security, complexity, cost, lifecycle, and supportability.
• Establish reusable engineering standards and design patterns that enable consistent global network deployments.
• Develop qualification strategies and perform functional, performance, scale, resiliency, security, interoperability, upgrade, and regression testing.
• Evaluate and validate network hardware and software for Retail Stores, campuses, offices, dev properties, and critical infrastructure environments.
• Document test results, defects, limitations, and risks; work with vendors and internal teams to drive remediation.
• Lead pilots, deployments, migrations, and upgrades while ensuring solutions are operationally ready for production.
• Produce approved standards, deployment guidance, operational runbooks, and knowledge-transfer materials.
• Build trusted relationships with senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders to clarify requirements, resolve dependencies, and drive decisions.
• Present technical proposals, qualification findings, risks, and recommendations clearly to technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Provide senior technical leadership, mentorship, incident escalation, and root-cause analysis across engineering and operations teams.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and advise management on industry trends, infrastructure risks, roadmaps, and investment decisions.
• Use telemetry, incident trends, and operational feedback to improve network designs, simplify architectures, and automate engineering and qualification processes.

Skills

Enterprise networking

BGP/EVPN/VXLAN

Wireless networking

Network design & SDN concepts

Troubleshooting

Technical documentation

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's in CS/CE or equivalent

Tools

Cisco/Arista equipment

Lab testing & pilot deployment

Job description

Apple Inc. is seeking a Senior Network Engineer in Austin, TX to design, validate, and deploy scalable network solutions for Retail and Enterprise environments worldwide.

You will translate business needs into engineering designs, lead pilots and deployments, and collaborate with architects, security, and operations to ensure secure, reliable connectivity for employees and customers. You will establish standards, drive qualification programs, and mentor engineers while communicating complex