Principal Network Engineer Reliability

In this role you will help shape the reliability strategy for critical network services at enterprise scale. You will influence how network reliability is measured engineered automated and continuously improved while partnering across infrastructure cloud security application architecture and business teams. This is an opportunity to drive modernization reduce operational risk and improve the stability of services that support critical business operations.

• Employment Type: Full time
• Role Type: Individual contributor; this is not a people-manager role.
• Work Model: Hybrid work model with three days per week in the office.
• Eligible Locations: Dallas TX metro; Charlotte NC metro; or Chandler AZ metro.
• Escalation Expectations: Provides senior technical escalation for critical incidents and high-risk changes. This role is expected to support critical incident response as needed; any recurring on-call rotation will be clearly defined before offer acceptance.
• Travel Expectations: 5% or less.

This role is network-centric with primary focus on routing and switching technologies data center fabrics WAN and campus networking cloud and hybrid connectivity load balancing DNS NTP firewalls automation telemetry monitoring and observability tooling.

You will provide senior technical leadership hands-on engineering guidance and cross-functional influence across the following areas:

• Network Reliability Strategy: Define and drive reliability targets SLOs/SLIs risk measures service health indicators and improvement plans for critical network services.
• Incident Leadership: Lead major incident response and service restoration and drive root cause analysis corrective action planning and prevention of repeat incidents.
• Architecture Influence: Review challenge and guide network designs to improve resiliency scalability security capacity failure isolation and operational simplicity.
• Automation and Observability: Expand telemetry alerting service health reporting configuration management automated validation and self-service capabilities to reduce manual toil.
• Operational Excellence: Strengthen standards runbooks documentation change quality failure readiness compliance-aligned practices and production readiness reviews.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Partner with network cloud security infrastructure application architecture and vendor teams while mentoring engineers and communicating complex technical issues clearly to senior stakeholders.

You should demonstrate principal-level technical depth operational judgment and cross-functional influence including:

• 7 years of experience in network engineering reliability engineering or network operations supporting business-critical enterprise network services.
• 5 years of expert knowledge of routing switching TCP/IP BGP OSPF high-availability design and related network services including load balancing DNS NTP firewalls and network security.
• 5 years of Proven ability to lead complex incident response guide troubleshooting restore service and communicate clearly under pressure.
• 5 plus years of practical experience applying SRE or reliability engineering practices including SLOs/SLIs problem management service health measurement operational health metrics and continuous improvement.
• 5 plus years experience improving operational stability and reducing repeat incidents through root cause analysis post-incident reviews corrective action planning systemic remediation and measurable recurrence prevention.
• 5 plus years experience owning corrective actions from post-incident review through implementation validation and closure.
• 5 plus years experience improving change success rates through risk assessment peer review validation testing rollback planning and post-change verification.
• 5 plus years experience conducting operational readiness reviews production readiness assessments failure-mode reviews or service acceptance reviews.
• 5 plus years experience managing vendor escalations product defects support cases and platform lifecycle risks that impact service stability.
• 5 plus years experience with capacity planning performance analysis traffic engineering and resiliency planning for large-scale enterprise networks.
• 5 plus years of hands-on automation or scripting experience with tools such as Python PowerShell Bash Ansible Terraform or equivalent technologies.
• 5 plus years of experience improving monitoring telemetry alerting dashboards metrics service health reporting or performance visibility for critical infrastructure services.

The following qualifications are beneficial and will help a candidate be successful in this role:

• Experience influencing enterprise network architecture and aligning designs with infrastructure cloud security compliance and architecture standards.
• Strong technical leadership collaboration mentoring written communication verbal communication and stakeholder influence skills including the ability to explain complex technical issues to senior stakeholders.
• Engineering or a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• Relevant networking cloud reliability or IT service management certifications such as CCNP/CCIE Juniper Arista AWS/Azure networking ITIL or equivalent credentials.
• Ability to prioritize reliability improvements based on business impact operational risk service criticality and incident trends.
• Experience contributing to technical strategy engineering standards reusable design patterns or network reliability innovation.
• Experience with network modernization data center migration SDN cloud networking or reliability transformation initiatives.
• Experience in regulated or critical industries such as financial services healthcare telecommunications or similar environments.
• Masters degree in Telecommunications Network Engineering Computer Engineering or a related field.
• Experience reading and interpreting packet captures to diagnose network performance connectivity protocol and application-impacting issues.

Success in this role is measured by stronger reliability outcomes improved operational readiness and reduced network risk.

• Improved availability stability MTTD MTTR change success rate and incident trends for network services.
• Fewer repeat incidents through stronger root cause analysis corrective action tracking and systemic prevention.
• Broader adoption of reliability standards runbooks design patterns operational playbooks and production readiness practices.
• Reduced manual operational toil through practical automation improved validation and clearer service health visibility.
• Stronger confidence from engineering application business and leadership stakeholders in network stability resilience and change readiness.

Job expectations

Education: Bachelors degree in Computer Science Electrical/Network

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship

This role is a hybrid work schedule 3 days in office 2 days remote

Pay Range

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