Network Engineer II

## Responsibilities - Deploy and configure network solutions for new and existing offices, including switches, wireless access points, routers, and firewalls - Own scoped portions of office rollouts and upgrade projects, from planning through execution and validation - Partner with ISPs, cabling providers, hardware vendors, and internal teams to turn up new services and resolve issues - Troubleshoot LAN, WAN, and Wi-Fi issues using structured debugging methods, packet capture, logs, and performance data - Manage routing, VLAN, firewall, and wireless configurations following team standards and change-management processes - Contribute to repeatable deployment patterns through templates, documentation, scripting, or infrastructure-as-code - Monitor office network health using Datadog dashboards and other tooling, and participate in incident response and post-incident reviews - Maintain clear documentation for designs, runbooks, deployment procedures, and operational workflows - Collaborate with and provide network guidance to Office Technology Administrators, IT Support, Facilities, AV, Security, and Infrastructure partners - Help maintain office network standards, hardware lifecycle plans, and operational consistency across global sites - Apply AI-assisted tools thoughtfully to reduce operational toil, improve runbooks, summarize incidents or investigations, and make network operations more repeatable and observable. ## Requirements - Grounded in networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, routing, switching, VLANs, DHCP/DNS, and wireless concepts - Experienced working hands-on with enterprise network equipment such as switches, access points, routers, and firewalls - Comfortable executing production changes, validating outcomes, and escalating when risk or ambiguity increases - Able to troubleshoot connectivity and performance issues using logs, packet captures, monitoring data, and clear hypotheses - Pragmatic, detail-oriented, and interested in improving runbooks, documentation, and operational processes - A clear communicator who can work effectively with technical and non-technical partners across offices and time zones - Excited to grow your depth in network engineering, observability, automation, and secure office connectivity - AI-fluent in your day-to-day work: you use AI-assisted tools to learn, troubleshoot, document, and automate, while validating outputs and protecting sensitive information. ## Nice to Have - Experience with Meraki, Aruba, Cisco, Palo Alto, Fortinet, or similar enterprise networking platforms - Familiarity with Datadog or other monitoring and observability tools - Scripting or automation experience, for example Python, Ansible, Terraform, or vendor APIs - Experience supporting multiple office sites, hybrid office environments, office buildouts, or office relocations - Familiarity with secure network practices such as segmentation, VPNs, NAC, firewall policy, or zero trust networking ## Benefits and Growth - New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) - Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing - Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking - An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups) - Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions - Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+ At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.