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Salary: USD 120,000 - 150,000 / annual
Fortanix is a data-centric cybersecurity company specializing in hybrid multicloud environments, using advanced cryptography, encryption, and confidential AI solutions. The company helps businesses protect sensitive data across clouds and devices through a unified data security platform that addresses vulnerabilities, defends against threats, and manages data exposure risks.
As a Senior Network Engineer, you will design, implement, and operate secure, scalable, and highly available network infrastructure supporting Fortanix's global platform. You'll be a key technical contributor working across data centers and cloud environments, driving improvements in automation, performance, and operational excellence.
Key responsibilities include:
- Designing and evolving data center network architectures, planning and optimizing new deployments to support current and future business needs
- Ensuring reliability, performance, scalability, and security of production and development network infrastructure through proactive improvements and high-availability maintenance
- Collaborating with Engineering, SaasOps, and Customer Success teams to design and deploy networking solutions across private and public cloud environments
- Managing, configuring, and monitoring network infrastructure with configuration management, network automation, performance monitoring, and troubleshooting
- Participating in on-call rotation for incident response and mission-critical network service availability
- Coordinating and executing data center visits for infrastructure deployment, server maintenance, and operational support
- Driving continuous improvement by evaluating new technologies, enhancing operational processes, maintaining documentation, and contributing to network standards
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Proven experience designing and operating large-scale data center and cloud network infrastructure with focus on scalability, resilience, and security
- Strong knowledge of modern networking technologies: routing, switching, network security, load balancing, virtualization, and software-defined networking
- Automation-first mindset with experience in Python, Bash, Ansible, or similar tools for network provisioning, configuration, and operations
- Hands-on experience with Linux systems and ability to troubleshoot across network, operating system, and application layers
- Experience with Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and virtualized network environments
- Familiarity with Juniper networking platforms and JunOS (highly desirable)
- Experience with network monitoring, observability, performance optimization, and incident response in production environments
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills for diagnosing and resolving complex infrastructure challenges
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills working across cross-functional engineering teams
- Proactive, ownership-driven approach with passion for continuous learning, automation, and operational excellence
