Network Deployment Engineer

Position: Network Deployment Engineer

Location: Remote

Hiring Mode: 6 Months Contract

Job Description:

Must have

• 8+ years of enterprise network engineering, including at least 3 years writing HLDs and LLDs for campus and branch sites.
• Hands-on Arista EOS on the LCM 2.0 platforms (7280R3, 7050X3, 720XP/720DT, 750-series chassis): MLAG, LACP, VLANs, OSPF/BGP, VARP/VRRP, PoE budgets.
• Cisco IOS-XE WAN edge (ISR 4000 to Catalyst 8500L), and enough legacy Catalyst to read the configurations being replaced.
• Palo Alto NGFW (PA-3400 series, PAN-OS, Panorama): HA pairs, zones, and interface and routing changes mid-cutover.
• Cutover leadership: port-for-port migrations, MOPs, pre- and post-checks, rollback calls, and running weekend bridges with customer, partner and field teams.
• Physical layer and out-of-band: optics and DACs, fiber and copper, rack elevations, PDU and power budgets, Opengear console servers with cellular failover. Enough to direct remote hands precisely.
• Tools: Nautobot or NetBox, ServiceNow change management, Visio or Lucidchart, Excel cut sheets.
• Writes designs a reviewer can approve in one pass.
• Based in a US time zone, available for weekend windows, and able to pass NVIDIA s contingent-worker background check.

Nice to have

• Python, Ansible or Jinja to generate configurations from cut sheets.
• Juniper Mist wireless, and Versa SD-WAN (Project Ether appliances share several LCM sites).
• Check Point to Palo Alto migrations, Arista CloudVision, Panorama templates.
• Arista ACE (L3 or higher), Cisco CCNP Enterprise or Palo Alto PCNSE.
• Spanish or Portuguese, for So Paulo and Latin America partners.