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Senior Network Engineer

Costa Mesa, CA (OC-13)💼 Full-time💰 $146,000–$146,000🗓 2026-09-22 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design, scale, and maintain resilient multi-vendor enterprise, backbone, and campus production networks for a defense technology company's core routing, switching, and multi-cloud interconnects.

Role type

Senior Network Infrastructure Engineer

Builds

High-capacity carrier transport, multi-cloud networking, and edge security systems

Domain

Defense technology / Network Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

BGP, OSPF, EVPN-VXLAN, multi-tenant network architecture, packet analysis, carrier circuit provisioning, cloud-native networking, Python, Git, multi-vendor hardware configuration

Preferred skills

CCNP/CCIE, JNCIP/JNCIE, PCNSE, Arista ACE, AWS/Azure/GCP networking certifications, regulated environment experience, Network Source-of-Truth platforms, modern observability platforms

Technologies

Arista EOS, Cisco Catalyst/Nexus, Palo Alto Networks NGFW/Panorama, Juniper Mist, Aruba, AWS Direct Connect, Azure ExpressRoute, GCP Cloud Interconnect, Nornir, Jinja2, Netmiko, Grafana, Prometheus, Syslog

Responsibilities

Design and maintain campus, datacenter, and field-test networks; architect and maintain corporate WAN backbone; design and provision hybrid-cloud transit networks; develop scalable network standards and reference architectures; partner on Network-as-Code workflows; implement Layer 3–7 security policies and microsegmentation; elevate telemetry stack with deep-visibility tooling; act as technical escalation point for Tier-3 issues; coach and level-up junior engineers

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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