Principal Network Engineer

Who are we?

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company®, operating over 260 data centers across the globe. Digital leaders harness Equinix's trusted platform to bring together and interconnect foundational infrastructure at software speed. Equinix enables organizations to access all the right places, partners and possibilities to scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences and multiply their value, while supporting their sustainability goals. 

Our culture is based on collaboration and the growth and development of our teams.  We hire hardworking people who thrive on solving challenging problems and give them opportunities to hone new skills and try new approaches, as we grow our product portfolio with new software and network architecture solutions. We embrace diversity in thought and contribution and are committed to providing an equitable work environment that is foundational to our core values as a company and is vital to our success. 

The Principal Network Service Engineer serves a key role as a technical leader and advisor for the global Network Operations team.  This role works hand in hand with the department director, regional managers, duty engineers, and other technical teams to ensure Equinix maintains first in class network experience for customers. 

Responsibilities: 

• Lead continuous analysis and optimization of all network infrastructure  

• Develop and maintain high-level and low-level network designs to improve operational efficiency  

• Lead the deployment of scalable network solutions, ensuring performance and security best practices 

• Consult on day-to-day operational issues, maintenances, and incidents 

• Serve as key escalation in incident response, communication, and network service recovery 

• Lead development of tooling and automation for improving efficiency and/or functionality for the team 

• Lead in tuning and improving observability, monitoring, and alerting solutions 

• Advise on planning and execution of network maintenance activities 

• Ensure departmental policies, procedures, runbooks, etc. are operationally adopted 

• Ensure network infrastructure documentation is properly maintained 

• Be a key contributor in developing departmental policies, procedures, and documentation 

• Leverage automation tools such as python, ansible, etc to improve network management efficiency 

• Work closely with cross-functional teams to align network strategies with business needs 

• Provide duty and/or leadership fill in or escalation coverage as needed 

Requirements: 

• Education: College degree in related field and/or equivalent knowledge and work experience. 

• Experience: 10 or more years working on large scale service provider networks and at least 5 in senior role 

• Expert level knowledge and experience in network routing and switching 

• Deep understanding o