Senior Network Systems Engineer

NetApp, San Jose, CA, USA Office +1

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The following are not required, but will distinguish a strong candidate — particularly the automation and AI-infrastructure capabilities that align with where the team and NetApp are heading.

Scripting and automation – Python, Ansible or Arista AVD — applied to fabric configuration and operations, with a source of truth such as NetBox or Nautobot.

Infrastructure as code and network as code — Terraform, Git-based workflows and CI/CD for network change.

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Senior Network Systems Engineer

NetApp, San Jose, CA, USA Office +1

Posted pay

$148K–$220K

a year

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This base pay is below the median for senior infrastructure, platform and SRE jobs in the Bay Area.

Median: $214K a year
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Location: San Jose, CA, USA Office +1
Work type: Onsite
Level: Senior
Experience: 8+ years
Skills in the job text: Python
AWS
Azure
Terraform
Ansible
Posted: Today
Last check: 50 min ago
Job type: Infra, platform & SRE, Inference & ML systems

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Nice to have

The following are not required, but will distinguish a strong candidate — particularly the automation and AI-infrastructure capabilities that align with where the team and NetApp are heading.

Scripting and automation – Python, Ansible or Arista AVD — applied to fabric configuration and operations, with a source of truth such as NetBox or Nautobot.

Infrastructure as code and network as code — Terraform, Git-based workflows and CI/CD for network change.

## Job Responsibilites

Operate and modernise the data centre estate — keep today's traditional, vPC-based data centre network reliable, secure and performant while leading its evolution toward a modern fabric.
Design and lead the migration to a Clos / spine-leaf fabric — own the target VXLAN / BGP EVPN design (distributed anycast gateway, symmetric/asymmetric IRB, multi-tenant VRFs) and drive a phased brownfield-to-greenfield migration, extensible to VXLAN multi-site / DCI across regions.
Build out AI/ML and storage back-end fabrics — design and deliver lossless Ethernet fabrics (RoCEv2, PFC, ECN/DCQCN) for GPU/compute and high-performance storage as NetApp scales its AI infrastructure.
Own routing and the control plane – operate enterprise routing today and engineer the BGP (eBGP/iBGP) underlay and EVPN overlay of the target fabric, with ECMP, data centre and internet edge, and inter-site connectivity.
Operate the switching estate – run Cisco Nexus (NX-OS) / ACI, Arista EOS or Juniper platforms — vPC/MLAG, VLANs, trunking, LACP and first-hop redundancy today, transitioning to leaf, spine and border-leaf roles.
Deliver builds, refreshes and migrations — produce designs, interconnect and cabling matrices and cutover plans; coordinate with vendors and installation partners through delivery, including high-radix 100G/400G optics.
Resolve escalated operational issues (Tier 3/4) — act as the senior escalation point for complex incidents across the control plane, data plane and physical layer, driving packet-level root-cause analysis and permanent resolution.
Drive change through structured change control — plan, risk-assess and execute changes with appropriate testing, validation and rollback, which is critical through the migration.
Maintain fabric health through observability — use fabric controllers (Cisco ND, Arista CloudVision, Juniper Apstra) and streaming telemetry to detect, diagnose and pre-empt issues before they impact users.
Codify operations – partner with automation/SRE colleagues to move recurring work from manual operations toward infrastructure as code and network as code.
Set the engineering standard – contribute standards, runbooks and documentation, and mentor junior engineers as a technical multiplier across the team.

Senior Network Systems Engineer

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Senior Network Systems Engineer

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## Job Summary

## Job Responsibilites

Data Centre Networking (Foundations)

Routing & Control Plane

Pay and benefits

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