Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Netskope is a leading cloud security company focused on redefining Cloud, Network, and Data Security. The Senior Network Automation Engineer will own day-to-day operations of the network infrastructure, ensuring its health and performance while proactively resolving risks to maintain high availability.
Responsibilities
- Configure, maintain, and troubleshoot routers and switches across a multi-vendor environment — Cisco IOS/NX-OS, Juniper Junos, and Arista EOS
- Manage BGP peering sessions with transit providers, internet exchanges, and direct peering partners; tune route policy, path selection, and prefix filtering to optimize performance and cost across hundreds of sessions
- Install and configure new ISP transit links; manage circuit turn-up, capacity monitoring, and provider coordination globally
- Configure and maintain firewalls including rulesets, NAT policies, zone-based security, and periodic policy audit and cleanup
- Configure and manage load balancers including GTM/GSLB components, virtual servers, health monitors, persistence profiles, and SSL offload for multi-region traffic management
- Monitor network health continuously — reviewing dashboards and utilization trends, identifying degradation patterns, and acting proactively before issues escalate to customer impact
- Upgrade software on production routers, switches, firewalls, and load balancers with minimal disruption; plan and execute changes with documented rollback procedures
- Configure and maintain IPsec/IKE VPN tunnels across the global PoP footprint
- Perform packet captures and traffic analysis to diagnose issues and support incident investigations
- Troubleshoot problems from the network layer through the application layer, own root cause analysis, and drive permanent remediations
- Build and extend monitoring tools and dashboards to improve visibility into network performance and availability across all regions
- Use BGP policies and traffic engineering to minimize latency to customers, balance load across providers, and manage congestion across internet exchange relationships
Skills
- 7+ years of hands-on network engineering experience in production internet-facing data center or SaaS environments
- Multi-vendor routing and switching expertise — Cisco, Juniper, and Arista; comfortable configuring and troubleshooting across all three in production
- Expert-level BGP — peering and transit configurations, route policy design, path optimization, and troubleshooting for IPv4 and IPv6 at scale
- Firewall operations experience in production environments — Juniper SRX, Palo Alto, Cisco ASA/FTD, or equivalent
- Load balancer and GTM/GSLB experience — F5 BIG-IP, Citrix ADC, or equivalent; virtual server management, health monitoring, global traffic management across multiple regions
- Strong L2 through L7 protocol knowledge — spanning-tree, LACP, MLAG, VLANs, BGP, OSPF, DNS, NTP, SNMP, SSH, Syslog, HTTP/S, SSL/TLS
- Experience with network monitoring platforms and dashboard tooling; ability to read utilization trends and build meaningful alert thresholds
- Proficiency with packet capture and traffic analysis tools (Wireshark, tcpdump)
- Solid Linux experience including basic scripting
- Background in KVM/ESXI hypervisor networking
- Strong documentation habits — change records, runbooks, architecture diagrams, and post-incident write-ups
- BSCS or equivalent required
- Prior experience in a public-facing SaaS, cloud, or internet infrastructure environment strongly preferred
- MSCS or equivalent strongly preferred
Benefits
- Comprehensive health plan
- Other benefits that can be reviewed at Netskope Benefits site
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