About this role

Job Title: Sr. Network Deployment Engineer

Location: Remote – United States

Duration: 6 Months+ Contract

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.

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 São Paulo and Latin America partners.

Sr Network Deployment Architect

Key skills