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Salary: USD 146,000 - 194,000 / annual
Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to join its Core Network Engineering team. You will work alongside a Staff Engineer, another Senior Network Engineer, a dedicated Wireless/RF Engineer, and a Network Engineer to design, scale, and maintain mission-critical infrastructure supporting defense technology systems.
In this role, you will be a technical pillar responsible for core routing, switching, WAN/backbone transport, multi-cloud interconnects, and edge security systems. Rather than building automation from scratch, you will partner with a dedicated Senior Network Automation Engineer to identify bottlenecks, standardize configurations, and integrate multi-vendor systems into automation pipelines.
You will consult directly with internal business lines—hardware engineering, software development, advanced manufacturing, and flight-test operations—to translate unconventional technical constraints into robust, secure, and multi-tenant network designs. Key responsibilities include:
• Design, scale, and maintain resilient campus, datacenter, and field-test networks using three-tier and EVPN-VXLAN fabric designs across Arista (EOS) and Cisco (Catalyst/Nexus) platforms.
• Architect and maintain corporate and datacenter WAN backbone, owning carrier circuit delivery, capacity planning, and turn-up for optical waves, dark fiber, and DIA across colocation and telecom providers.
• Design and provision hybrid-cloud transit networks across AWS, Azure, and GCP, implementing dedicated interconnects (AWS Direct Connect, Azure ExpressRoute, Google Cloud Interconnect), Transit Gateways/VNet Hubs, and dynamic BGP peering.
• Develop scalable network standards, reference architectures, and implementation patterns; participate in architecture reviews.
• Partner with the Senior Network Automation Engineer to drive Network-as-Code workflows using Python, Nornir, and Jinja2.
• Partner with the Wireless/RF Engineer to design and maintain campus-wide and field Wi-Fi deployments using Aruba and Juniper Mist platforms, focusing on 802.1X/EAP-TLS authentication.
• Implement, audit, and manage Layer 3–7 security policies, microsegmentation, and site-to-site IPsec tunnels using Palo Alto Networks NGFWs managed via Panorama.
• Elevate telemetry beyond traditional SNMP polling; implement deep-visibility tooling, flow analysis, and streaming telemetry dashboards (Grafana, Prometheus, Syslog).
• Act as final escalation point for critical network anomalies; lead post-mortem reviews and participate in shared Tier-3 on-call rotation.
• Coach and mentor junior systems administrators and network engineers through runbook authoring, architectural reviews, and pairing sessions.
REQUIREMENTS:
• 8+ years of hands-on experience designing, scaling, and maintaining complex multi-vendor enterprise, backbone, and campus production networks.
• Advanced routing and switching expertise: deep operational mastery of BGP (path selection, community manipulation, convergence optimization) and OSPF; demonstrated production experience deploying and troubleshooting EVPN-VXLAN fabrics; proven experience designing multi-tenant network architectures (VRFs, dynamic segmentation); expert-level packet analysis skills (tcpdump, Wireshark).
• Experience working directly with carriers and telecom providers to scope, order, cross-connect, turn up, and test high-bandwidth transport circuits (10G/100G Waves, dark fiber, DIAs).
• Proven track record provisioning and troubleshooting cloud-native networking components and dedicated connectivity (AWS Direct Connect, Azure ExpressRoute, GCP Cloud Interconnect, VPC/VNet peering, Transit Gateways).
• Automation fluency: strong programmatic mindset with ability to read, review, and write foundational Python; working familiarity with automation ecosystems (Nornir, Jinja2, Netmiko) and REST APIs; comfort with Git workflows.
• Multi-vendor hardware mastery: expert-level configuration, architecture, and troubleshooting across Arista Networks (EOS, CloudVision, spine-and-leaf designs), Cisco Systems (Catalyst 9k series IOS-XE and Nexus NX-OS), Palo Alto Networks (NGFW appliances, Panorama, App-ID, User-ID, GlobalProtect), and enterprise wireless (Juniper Mist, Aruba AirWave/Conductor, ClearPass/RADIUS integration, 802.1X designs).
• Exceptional ability to translate non-standard business and physical engineering requirements into pragmatic, resilient network architectures.
• Willingness to support weekly Tier-3 on-call rotation and travel periodically to remote field sites, test facilities, or manufacturing sites.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
• Senior or Expert-level industry certifications (CCNP/CCIE, JNCIP/JNCIE, PCNSE, or Arista ACE).
• Certifications in public cloud networking (AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty, Azure Network Engineer Associate).
• Experience operating within regulated or compliance-driven environments (ITAR, EAR, NIST 800-171, CMMC).
• Experience with Network Source-of-Truth platforms (NetBox, Nautobot).
• Hands-on experience with modern observability platforms (Telegraf, InfluxDB, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenConfig/gNMI).
