Senior Network Platform Engineer – Certification & Automation

Equinix; Texas; Presencial; USD 138.000 - 208.000; Tempo integral

Benefícios oferecidos por esta vaga

Health benefits

Retirement plan

PTO and Holidays

Resumo da vaga

Equinix seeks a Senior Staff Engineer to join Network Platform Engineering, serving as the final gatekeeper of NOS/certification quality.

You will design test methodologies, build staging topologies, and validate architectures to ensure reliability, scalability, and performance in production; collaborating with Product, Engineering, Operations, and Observability teams to accelerate certification and deployment pipelines.

Qualificações

• 7+ years of experience in Network Engineering and Automation.
• Excellent understanding of OSI layers and routing in multi-vendor environments.
• Experience with lab and production certification workflows.

Responsabilidades

• Design, execute, and document comprehensive test plans to certify NOS releases before production deployment (NOS & Feature Certification).
• Build and maintain large-scale staging environments that replicate complex service provider and data center topologies (Architecture Simulation).
• Conduct interoperability, scalability, and high-availability testing across multi-vendor environments (Regression & Scale/Performance Testing).
• Collaborate with network vendors to track software bugs, validate hotfixes, and influence product roadmaps (Vendor Liaison).
• Develop safe deployment playbooks and rollback strategies with production engineering teams (Production Readiness).
• Research emerging network technologies, evaluate vendor roadmaps, and certify new features before production deployment (Architecture & Feature Research).
• Contribute to architecture and design of next-gen network infrastructure across layers 1–3 (Network Engineering & Automation).
• Lead hands-on deep-dives to verify NOS features and customer use cases in lab and production-equivalent environments.
• Act as SME for service provider & DC networking technologies (BGP, MPLS, EVPN, IS-IS, OSPF).
• Maintain understanding of VXLAN, EPL, EVPL, EPLAN, EVPLAN, EACCESS, ETREE in multi-vendor setups.
• Support vendor evaluations and provide guidance on hardware and NOS selection.
• Proficient in configuring and troubleshooting Nokia, Juniper, Cisco, Arrcus NOS platforms.
• Strong network automation skills and programmatic interfaces to optimize certification workflows.

Conhecimentos

BGP (iBGP/eBGP)

MPLS (LDP/RSVP/SR)

EVPN

OSPF/IS-IS

Python scripting

Automation tools (Netmiko/PyATS)

Kubernetes & Docker

CI/CD (GitHub/Jenkins)

Cloud networking (AWS VPC)

Networking hardware (Nokia/Juniper/Ca)

Formação

Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering or related field

Ferramentas

Spirent testing tools

Ixia/Trex testing tools

Descrição da vaga

Equinix seeks a Senior Staff Engineer to join Network Platform Engineering, serving as the final gatekeeper of NOS/certification quality.

You will design test methodologies, build staging topologies, and validate architectures to ensure reliability, scalability, and performance in production; collaborating with Product, Engineering, Operations, and Observability teams to accelerate certification and deployment pipelines.