Equinix

Overview

Equinix is seeking a Sr Principal Engineer to serve as a senior technical authority for the architecture, automation, telemetry, and continued evolution of our global corporate enterprise network, known as the GEN network.

About Equinix

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company®, shortening the path to connectivity to enable the innovations that enrich our work, life and planet.

Requirements & Eligibility

• 15+ years of progressively responsible experience in corporate enterprise networking, network engineering, network architecture, network automation, infrastructure architecture, or a closely related technical discipline.
• A significant record of operating as a Principal Engineer, Senior Principal Engineer, Distinguished Engineer, Chief Network Architect, Fellow, or equivalent senior technical authority responsible for enterprise architecture, strategy, standards, and
• Demonstrated ownership of global or multiregion corporate enterprise-network architecture.
• Experience architecting or governing approximately 10,000 or more network nodes, or an environment with comparable global scale, complexity, and criticality.
• Deep protocol-level expertise in BGP and OSPF, with strong working knowledge of IS-IS, routing policy, convergence, resiliency, and failure analysis.
• Architecture experience across enterprise WAN, campus, data center, cloud connectivity, wireless, secure access, network security, and carrier services.
• Strong knowledge of EVPN, VXLAN, leaf-spine fabrics, segmentation, multihoming, gateway design, and Layer 2 and Layer 3 architecture.
• Strong Python experience applied directly to network engineering, automation, telemetry, or operations, including the ability to personally review and troubleshoot meaningful Python-based capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Define the target-state architecture and multiyear strategy for the global GEN corporate enterprise network.
• Provide architectural direction across global LAN, WAN, campus, branch, wireless, corporate data center, cloud connectivity, secure access, network security, carrier services, and resiliency.
• Establish global standards, reference architectures, design patterns, technical guardrails, and architecture-governance practices.
• Identify technical debt, lifecycle risks, capacity needs, architectural constraints, and modernization opportunities.
• Own most corporate network architecture decisions while aligning with security, cloud, infrastructure, enterprise architecture, risk, and other Equinix standards.
• Evaluate architecture alternatives and emerging technologies based on scalability, availability, security, operational readiness, cost, and measurable business value.
• Provide deep technical leadership in routing, switching, traffic engineering, control-plane behavior, network resiliency, and complex failure scenarios.
• Apply expert knowledge of BGP and OSPF, with strong working knowledge of IS-IS and large-scale routing concepts.