South North Network SRE Expert (SME)
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Summary
Design and operate global AI cloud network fabrics using EVPN-VXLAN, DCI, and WAN while automating with Ansible/Terraform.
Own the north-south network fabric connecting AI cloud infrastructure across US data centers, APAC sites, and Iceland. Design and operate EVPN-VXLAN fabrics, DCI, WAN, internet edge, routing, firewalls, monitoring, and network automation while converting operational changes into executable policies and workflows.
Responsibilities
- Own EVPN-VXLAN data center fabrics for multi-tenant isolation and workload mobility
- Connect data centers and international sites through DCI, WAN, and IP backbone infrastructure
- Operate BGP, OSPF, ECMP, and VxLAN across spine-leaf architectures
- Manage IP transit, peering relationships, and internet edge infrastructure
- Manage Arista, Cisco, and Palo Alto network equipment
- Automate network operations with Ansible, Terraform, and Nautobot/NetBox
- Monitor network health, capacity, and service-level agreements
- Maintain network architecture documentation, standard configurations, and change procedures
- Represent route policies, ACLs, VRFs, and peering sessions as code
- Convert routine network changes into executable workflows
Requirements
- 5+ years in data center network engineering
- Hands-on EVPN-VXLAN deployment experience
- Strong BGP expertise including eBGP, iBGP, route policies, communities, and traffic engineering
- Experience designing and operating multi-site DCI with EVPN multi-homing
- Proficiency with Arista EOS and/or Cisco NX-OS
- Experience with Palo Alto or Fortinet firewall platforms
- Experience with IP transit provisioning and internet peering
- Familiarity with Ansible, Python/Netmiko, and Nautobot/NetBox
- Understanding of QoS, traffic engineering, and capacity planning
- AIOps aptitude
- Runbook-as-code mindset