Job Title: DC Deployment Engineer
Location : Anywhere in US - 100% remote work
Long Term Contract
We are seeking a DC Deployment Engineer to lead the design, architecture, and evolution of large-scale data center, backbone, and cloud networking infrastructure. This role is focused on building highly scalable, resilient, and automated network platforms supporting mission-critical production environments.
The ideal candidate has extensive experience designing and operating large-scale data center networks, routing and switching infrastructure, EVPN/VXLAN fabrics, and backbone networks within hyperscale cloud providers, large enterprises, ISPs, or SaaS environments.
Key Responsibilities
Design and architect large-scale data center and backbone network infrastructure.
Lead the design and deployment of modern spine-leaf architectures using EVPN/VXLAN.
Design highly available routing and switching infrastructure supporting mission-critical production environments.
Drive network scalability, resiliency, automation, and operational excellence across global infrastructure.
Develop network automation using Python, Ansible, Terraform/OpenTofu, and CI/CD pipelines.
Define network architecture standards, operational processes, observability, and reliability best practices.
Collaborate with cloud, platform, systems, and security engineering teams.
Lead troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and performance optimization for large-scale production networks.
Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across infrastructure initiatives.
Required Qualifications
15+ years of experience in:
Network Architecture
Network Engineering
Network Reliability Engineering
Production Engineering
Site Reliability Engineering
Strong expertise with:
Routing & Switching
BGP
OSPF
IS-IS
MPLS
EVPN/VXLAN
Spine-Leaf Data Center Networks
WAN & Backbone Networking
Capacity Planning
Network Performance Engineering
Strong experience with:
Cisco
Juniper
Arista
Multi-vendor network environments
Hands-on experience with:
Linux
Python
Bash
Network automation
Infrastructure as Code
Ansible
Terraform/OpenTofu
Git and CI/CD
Experience designing and operating highly available production networks at scale.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in hyperscale cloud, SaaS, ISP, CDN, or enterprise environments.
Experience operating globally distributed data center networks.
Experience with observability platforms such as Kentik, ThousandEyes, Grafana, Splunk, Nagios, or similar.
Experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, or hybrid cloud networking.
Experience leading architecture reviews and cross-functional infrastructure programs.
Nice to Have
Exposure to AI infrastructure or GPU networking.
Knowledge of RoCE, RDMA, or HPC networking.
Participation in networking communities such as NANOG or RIPE.