Senior Network Engineer: Zero Trust & Zscaler Platform

Snowflake; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Paid holidays

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Snowflake's Enterprise Technology Network Services is hiring a Staff Network Engineer to lead design, operation, and optimization of our Zero Trust and secure-access platform across multi-cloud environments. You'll own the ZIA/ZPA deployment, drive automation, observability, and global connectivity for 10,000+ users.

The role requires 10+ years in enterprise networking, hands-on Zscaler experience, Palo Alto expertise, and strong scripting/ITSM skills.

Qualifications

• 10+ years enterprise network infrastructure experience.
• 3+ years hands-on Zscaler ZIA/ZPA design and deployment at scale.
• Strong TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, TLS inspection, BGP, QoS troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

• Own and operate the Zscaler platform end-to-end, including policy frameworks, app-segmentation models, PAC/traffic-forwarding standards, App Connector topology, and NSS/log-streaming design.
• Troubleshoot secure-access incidents and lead root-cause analysis for systemic issues.
• Manage Palo Alto firewalls, Panorama and GlobalProtect VPN, while planning migration toward Zscaler solutions.
• Support Aruba Wireless, Ekahau and Cisco Catalyst switches globally.
• Design, install, and configure network devices and ISP circuits at new offices.
• Build automation and observability: leverage log analytics to create dashboards, alerting, and proactive detection.
• Troubleshoot secure network constructs in AWS, Azure, and GCP (NVAs, NSG, VPC, UDR, DirectConnect, ExpressRoute).
• Author technical runbooks and escalation procedures.
• Participate in on-call rotations and lead responses to major incidents.
• Be able to travel internationally for site builds.

Skills

Enterprise network engineering

Zscaler ZIA/ZPA design

Palo Alto firewall & GlobalProtect

Aruba networking / Cisco networking

TCP/IP DNS DHCP TLS

Multi-cloud networking

Python scripting & API automation

ITSM documentation skills

Tools

Zscaler (ZIA/ZPA)

Palo Alto PAN-OS

GlobalProtect VPN

Aruba Central

Terraform

Snowflake telemetry/log analytics

Job description

Snowflake's Enterprise Technology Network Services is hiring a Staff Network Engineer to lead design, operation, and optimization of our Zero Trust and secure-access platform across multi-cloud environments. You'll own the ZIA/ZPA deployment, drive automation, observability, and global connectivity for 10,000+ users.

The role requires 10+ years in enterprise networking, hands-on Zscaler experience, Palo Alto expertise, and strong scripting/ITSM skills.