Staff Network Engineer - NOS Certification & Automation

Equinix, Inc.; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 118,000 - 176,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Assistance Program

Healthcare benefits

Paid time off

Job summary

Equinix, Inc. in Dallas, TX is seeking a Staff Engineer to join the Network Platform Engineering team.

You will certify NOS releases and new features, build staging topologies, and drive automation for testing and deployment processes. You will collaborate with senior engineers, product, and operations to ensure scalable, reliable network certification and deployment pipelines across multi-vendor environments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Network Engineering and Automation.
• Solid understanding of OSI layers; hands-on experience with routing and switching in multi-vendor environments.
• Proficiency in service provider and data center networking protocols.
• Routing: BGP (iBGP/eBGP, route policies, communities), OSPF, IS-IS.
• MPLS: LDP, RSVP-TE, Segment Routing (SR-MPLS, SRv6).
• Overlay/Underlay: VXLAN, EVPN, L3VPN, L2VPN.
• Network virtualization: CNF, VNF, SR-IOV, DPDK.
• Networking Vendors: Nokia, Juniper, Cisco, Arrcus.
• Familiarity with network test equipment and traffic generators (e.g., Spirent, Keysight/Ixia, IPerf, TRex).
• Good programming proficiency in network automation tools (e.g., Python, Ansible, Netmiko, REST API) and programmatic interfaces (NETCONF, RESTCONF, gNMI).
• Familiarity with deploying, testing, and troubleshooting network features within Docker container and Kubernetes (K8s) clusters.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub, GitHub Actions, Jenkins) and DevOps best practices.
• Basic familiarity with hybrid cloud architecture and AWS networking services (VPC, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect) is a plus.
• Exposure to AI/ML tools and LLMs for test automation, log analysis, or anomaly detection is a plus.
• Relevant industry certifications (e.g., Cisco CCNA/CCNP, Juniper JNCIP, AWS SA) are a plus.

Responsibilities

• NOS & Feature Certification: Execute and document test plans to certify new NOS releases, Fabric interconnection & new product features before production deployment under the guidance of senior engineers.
• Lab Environment Management: Build and maintain staging environments that replicate service provider and data center topologies for testing purposes.
• Regression & Scale/Performance Testing: Conduct interoperability, scalability, and high-availability testing across multi-vendor environments.
• Vendor Liaison: Collaborate with network vendors to track and validate software bug fixes, validate hotfixes, escalating complex issues to senior team members.
• Production Readiness: Contribute to deployment playbooks and rollback strategies alongside production engineering teams.
• Feature Research & Evaluation: Assist in evaluating emerging network technologies and vendor features ahead of production integration.

Skills

Network Engineering

Automation

BGP OSPF IS-IS

MPLS SR

VXLAN EVPN

Python Ansible Netmiko

Docker Kubernetes

CI/CD

AWS VPC Direct Connect

Tools

Nokia

Juniper

Cisco

Arrcus

Spirent

Keysight

Iperf

Job description

Equinix, Inc. in Dallas, TX is seeking a Staff Engineer to join the Network Platform Engineering team.

You will certify NOS releases and new features, build staging topologies, and drive automation for testing and deployment processes. You will collaborate with senior engineers, product, and operations to ensure scalable, reliable network certification and deployment pipelines across multi-vendor environments.