South North Network SRE Expert (SME)

Own the north-south network fabric connecting AI cloud infrastructure across US data centers, APAC sites, and Iceland. Design and operate EVPN-VXLAN fabrics, DCI, WAN, internet edge, routing, firewalls, monitoring, and network automation while converting operational changes into executable policies and workflows.

Responsibilities

• Own EVPN-VXLAN data center fabrics for multi-tenant isolation and workload mobility
• Connect data centers and international sites through DCI, WAN, and IP backbone infrastructure
• Operate BGP, OSPF, ECMP, and VxLAN across spine-leaf architectures
• Manage IP transit, peering relationships, and internet edge infrastructure
• Manage Arista, Cisco, and Palo Alto network equipment
• Automate network operations with Ansible, Terraform, and Nautobot/NetBox
• Monitor network health, capacity, and service-level agreements
• Maintain network architecture documentation, standard configurations, and change procedures
• Represent route policies, ACLs, VRFs, and peering sessions as code
• Convert routine network changes into executable workflows

Requirements

• 5+ years in data center network engineering
• Hands-on EVPN-VXLAN deployment experience
• Strong BGP expertise including eBGP, iBGP, route policies, communities, and traffic engineering
• Experience designing and operating multi-site DCI with EVPN multi-homing
• Proficiency with Arista EOS and/or Cisco NX-OS
• Experience with Palo Alto or Fortinet firewall platforms
• Experience with IP transit provisioning and internet peering
• Familiarity with Ansible, Python/Netmiko, and Nautobot/NetBox
• Understanding of QoS, traffic engineering, and capacity planning
• AIOps aptitude
• Runbook-as-code mindset