Senior Principal Network Architect - Core Architecture

September 20

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Equinix

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Business Ecosystems • Cloud Services • Colocation • Data Exchange • Data Security

10,000+

Description

• Responsible for driving innovative architectures in line with the latest network technology trends • Maintains relationships with senior leadership and collaborates with a broad range of stakeholders globally • Establishes key performance metrics • Drives a culture of innovation, excellence & collaboration with other business functions • Provides strategic direction in planning/execution • Designing, implementing, deploying and operating the company’s global network infrastructure • Evaluating next-generation networking technologies and developing an evolution roadmap and target architectures for the network technology stack • Delivering industry thought leadership and building closer engagement with the developer community in areas relevant to networking • Help identify technical debt and drive continual improvement by partnering with associate organizations • Provide in-depth technical expertise to identify and evaluate innovations in networking

Requirements

• Proven years experience • Bachelor's in Computer Science or Computer Engineering • Demonstrable, extensive experience in developing next generation networking technologies and architectures implemented in large-scale, critically important deployments • Top-tier relevant network design or network engineering leadership with software-defined, cloud-native networking technologies and ecosystems is essential • Substantive knowledge of network (function) disaggregation • Passionate about infrastructure automation through software together with solid hands-on experience of network automation • Experience of engineering with programming languages (Go, Java, Python, etc.) or API development for network automation is a plus • Substantive track record with network programming in C, C++, golang , rust • Experience with network configuration tools such as Netconf, yang • Experience with open networking technologies and ecosystems , such as Routing Daemons (FRR, Bird, GoBGP ), Linux Networking ( eBPF , VPP, XDP), and SONiC , or other Linux-based open Network Operating Systems • Involvement with modern observability platforms (Prometheus/ PromQL , Grafana, gNMI , etc ) • Experience with network flow export ( Netflow , IPFIX, sFlow ) and analysis • Solid understanding of full networking stack (routing, switching and optical networking), including key protocols & standards, Linux networking and open-source solutions, vendor ecosystems and implementation best practices • Excellent writing and verbal communications skills from engineering to executive • Excellent collaboration and people skills

Benefits

• Employees are eligible for bonus • Equity may be offered depending on the position