Senior AV Network Engineer

About the role

The Staff AV Network Engineer in the AV Core Infrastructure (ACI) organization is responsible for designing and maintaining the secure hybrid network fabric that powers the global AV development pipeline. This role involves treating the network as software, leading the design of architectures that bridge on-prem validation and cloud environments, and ensuring the network is never a bottleneck for developer velocity.

Responsibilities

• Treat Network as Code (NaC): Lead the transition toward fully automated, software-defined infrastructure where all network changes are version-controlled, peer-reviewed, and deployed via CI/CD pipelines.
• Toil Reduction: Apply SRE principles to identify and automate repetitive manual tasks, ensuring the team remains focused on high-value architectural improvements.
• Observability: Build and maintain advanced telemetry and monitoring stacks to provide real-time visibility into the health of hybrid interconnects and on-prem validation pools.
• Hybrid Network Architecture & Strategy: Design and scale the global backbone connecting on-prem data centers, test tracks, and public cloud providers (primarily GCP Interconnect and potentially Azure ExpressRoute).
• Security, Performance & Reliability: Implement and manage zero-trust network architectures, ensuring end-to-end encryption for data in transit without sacrificing throughput required for massive AV training sets.
• Error Budget Management: Manage "Error Budgets" for network services, balancing rapid feature deployment with extreme system stability.
• Complex Outage Resolution: Act as the final escalation point for complex network outages, using professional-grade packet analysis and telemetry to resolve multi-dimensional issues across the stack.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Network Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in large-scale enterprise, service provider networking, or SRE roles.
• Professional-level certifications (e.g., CCNP/CCIE, Arista ACE, or Google Professional Cloud Network Engineer).
• Deep experience with SRE and Network Automation tools (Ansible, Terraform, Python, Go) and telemetry stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).

Qualifications

• Recognized expert in high-performance networking (BGP, EVPN, VXLAN) and deep understanding of data center fabrics.
• Advanced proficiency in Cloud Networking (VPC design, Shared VPCs, Cloud Armor, Cloud Load Balancing).

Skills

• Highly proficient in Cloud Networking (VPC design, Shared VPCs, Cloud Armor, Cloud Load Balancing).
• Experience with SRE and Network Automation tools (Ansible, Terraform, Python, Go).
• Expertise in telemetry stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).

Benefits

• Health and wellbeing benefit programs.
• Medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation & holidays.
• Tuition assistance programs, employee assistance program, GM vehicle discounts.

Pay

The compensation for this role is a good faith estimate and may vary based on factors such as location, performance, and experience. The salary range is $172,000 to $300,000. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on relevant factors.

Schedule

Details about the schedule are not specified in the job posting.