Senior Network Platform Engineer (NOS & Automation)

Equinix, Inc; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 138,000 - 208,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equinix Benefits

Employee Assistance Program

Health Insurance

Retirement Plan

PTO and Holidays

Job summary

Equinix, Inc. is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer for the Network Platform Engineering team.

You will gatekeep NOS releases, design rigorous test methodologies, build staging topologies, and validate architectures to ensure reliability and performance before production deployment. You will partner with Product, Engineering, Operations and Observability to accelerate network certification, testing, and deployment pipelines, influencing direction across multiple teams.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in network engineering and automation.
• Bachelor's in Electrical engineering, Electronics, Computer Engineering or Related Field preferred
• Excellent understanding of OSI layers and hands-on experience with routing and switching in multi-vendor, large-scale environments (Required)
• Deep proficiency in service provider and data center networking protocols
• Routing: BGP (iBGP/eBGP, route policies, communities, route reflectors), OSPF, IS-IS, Bird
• MPLS: LDP, RSVP-TE, Segment Routing (SR-MPLS, SRv6)
• Overlay/Underlay: VXLAN, EVPN, L3VPN, L2VPN
• Network virtualization: CNF, VNF, SR-IOV, DPDK
• Networking Vendor : Nokia, Juniper, Cisco, Arrucs
• Experience with network test equipment and traffic generators e.g Spirent, Keysight/Ixia, Spirent, Avalanche, IPerf, Trex etc.
• Good programming proficiency in network automation tools (e.g., Python, Ansible, PyATS, Netmiko, REST API) alongside programmatic Interfaces (NETCONF, RESTCONF,Gnmi)
• Familiarity with deploying, testing and troubleshooting network features within Docker container & Kubernetes (K8s) clusters
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub, GitHub Actions, Jenkins) and DevOps best practices
• Familiarity with Hybrid cloud architecture, Hands-on experience with AWS networking services (VPC, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect etc.)
• Explore, evaluate, and integrate AI/ML tools and Large Language Models (LLMs) to streamline certification processes, including automated test case generation, log anomaly detection, and predictive root-cause analysis for lab failures
• Relevant industry certifications (e.g., Cisco CCIE, Juniper JNCIE,AWS SA etc.) is a plus

Responsibilities

• Design, execute, and document test plans to certify NOS releases before production deployment
• Architecture Simulation: Build and maintain large-scale staging environments that replicate complex service provider and data center topologies
• Regression & Scale/Performance Testing across multi-vendor environments
• Vendor Liaison: collaborate with network vendors to track bugs and influence roadmaps
• Production Readiness: develop safe deployment playbooks and rollback strategies with production teams
• Architecture & Feature Research: evaluate emerging network technologies and vendor roadmaps for integration and certification

Skills

BGP

OSPF

IS-IS

MPLS

VXLAN

EVPN

Network automation

Python

Ansible

REST API

Docker/Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Computer Engineering or related field

Tools

Nokia

Juniper

Cisco

Arrcus

Job description

Equinix, Inc. is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer for the Network Platform Engineering team.

You will gatekeep NOS releases, design rigorous test methodologies, build staging topologies, and validate architectures to ensure reliability and performance before production deployment. You will partner with Product, Engineering, Operations and Observability to accelerate network certification, testing, and deployment pipelines, influencing direction across multiple teams.