Senior Infrastructure / Network Engineer

Job Description

Role: Senior Infrastructure / Network Engineer

Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States (4 Days Onsite)

Long Term Contract Role:

Required Skills & Experience

• 5–7 years of professional experience as a Network Engineer in hybrid or multi‑site environments.
• Strong hands‑on experience with layer 2 switching, Dell/Force10 and Cisco, including ARP, LACP, MAC address tables, Spanning Tree Protocol, etc.
• Strong hands-on experience with layer 3 static routing
• Strong hands-on experience with NAT and private RFC1918 networks
• Cisco ASA firewalls
• Remote‑access Client VPN technologies including Cisco AnyConnect and Cisco Secure Connect, AWS Client VPN, OpenVPN, and Netskope
• Netgate pfSense firewalls
• Experience with SD‑WAN solutions for site-to-site VPNs, preferably Meraki
• Proficiency with VMware ESXi, vCenter, and virtual networking
• Deep understanding of VLANs, trunking, ACLs, and segmentation
• Strong knowledge of AWS, Azure, GCP, including VPC design, routing, and security groups
• Familiarity with IBM Cloud
• Enterprise UNIX/Linux networking
• Experience with Cloudflare (SSL Certificates and DNS)
• Strong understanding of Windows DNS/DHCP and cross‑platform name‑resolution architectures
• Excellent documentation skills diagrams, runbooks, and change records
• Proven ability to manage vendors, negotiate support, and coordinate escalations
• Experience with Wi‑Fi 6/6E/7 wireless deployments and troubleshooting
• Strong physical data center skills
• excellent cable knowledge and management, copper and fiber technologies
• labeling standards
• physical infrastructure hygiene
• racking and unracking servers and switches, etc.
• airflow planning
• power planning

Nice to have qualifications:

• Relevant certifications (CCNA/CCNP, AWS/Azure/GCP Associate or Professional, VMware VCP)
• Experience with automation or scripting (Python, Ansible, PowerShell)
• Experience with Zero Trust architectures and modern security frameworks
• Background supporting large‑scale, high‑availability environments
• Experience with Equinix data centers
• Bitbucket experience
• Confluence experience
• Jira experience
• AIX experience
• IBM Cloud experience
• Solaris experience

Soft Skills

• Strong communication and cross‑team collaboration
• Ability to translate technical concepts for non‑technical stakeholders
• Ownership mindset with strong problem‑solving skills
• Highly organized with attention to detail, especially in documentation and physical infrastructure