Network Engineer- Inperson interview required

Job title: Network Engineer, Corporate & Datacenter

Location: Hybrid @ Palo Alto, CA-Locals only - face to face interview

Duration: Long Term 

Key Responsibilities:

Corporate & Campus Networking

• Design and maintain the corporate LAN, including access/distribution/core switching, VLANs, STP, and QoS for our Palo Alto HQ and remote offices.
• Manage and optimize the wireless LAN infrastructure (controller-based and cloud-managed), including site surveys, RF planning, SSID design, and client troubleshooting.
• Administer 802.1X network access control, certificate-based authentication, and guest networksegmentation.

Datacenter Networking

• Operate and evolve the datacenter network, including spine-leaf architecture, BGP, VxLAN/EVPN overlays, and high-availability designs.
• Ensure network stability and performance across on-premises datacenter infrastructure, proactively monitoring capacity and latency baselines.
• Partner with Server, Storage, and Platform Engineering teams on rack-and-stack connectivity, new service deployments, and capacity expansions.

Security & Firewall (Palo Alto Networks)

• Manage Palo Alto Networks NGFW platforms (PA-Series, Panorama, SCM), including security policy, App-ID, URL filtering, Threat Prevention, and WildFire integration.
• Administer GlobalProtect VPN and Prisma Access for remote access and enforce zero-trust networksegmentation between zones.
• Conduct firewall rule reviews, clean up unused policies, and support periodic security audits.

Reliability & Automation

• Monitor network health using observability tooling (SNMP, streaming telemetry, NetFlow/sFlow) and drive resolution of incidents and root-cause analyses.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts and configuration management workflows (Python, Ansible, Terraform) to reduce toil and improve consistency.
• Use AI-assisted tools to accelerate log analysis, runbook generation, and network documentation.

Required Qualifications

• 4–6 years of hands-on enterprise network engineering experience.
• Proficiency with Palo Alto Networks NGFWs and Panorama; experience with security policy management, zone-based segmentation, and GlobalProtect VPN.
• Solid understanding of routing and switching fundamentals: BGP, OSPF, STP/RSTP, VLANs, LACP, and L2/L3 design.
• Experience designing and supporting enterprise wireless networks (Cisco Meraki, Aruba, or equivalent); familiarity with 802.11ax/Wi-Fi 6 and RF optimization.
• Working knowledge of datacenter networking concepts: spine-leaf, VxLAN/EVPN, and high- availability failover.
• Strong troubleshooting methodology—comfortable working through complex multi-layer problems in production environments.
• Effective written and verbal communication; able to produce clear runbooks and incident postmortems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Relevant certifications: PCNSE (Palo Alto Networks), CCNP Enterprise, CWNA/CWSP, or equivalent.
• Experience with network automation using Python, Ansible, or Terraform.
• Familiarity with public cloud networking (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform) as it intersects with on-premises connectivity (Direct Connect, ExpressRoute, VPN).
• Exposure to load balancers (F5, AVI/NSX ALB, NGINX) and application delivery in datacenter environments.
• Experience with 802.1X / NAC platforms (Cisco ISE, Aruba ClearPass, or equivalent).
• Comfort using AI tools (e.g., Claude, Copilot) for network operations, documentation, and automation tasks is a plus and actively encouraged.