Sr. IP Network Engineer

Bandwidth, a prior “Best of EC” award winner, is a global software company that helps enterprises deliver exceptional experiences through voice, messaging, and emergency services. Reaching 65+ countries and over 90 percent of the global economy, we're the only provider offering an owned communications cloud that delivers advanced automation, AI integrations, global reach, and premium human support. Bandwidth is trusted for mission-critical communications by the Global 2000, hyperscalers, and SaaS builders!

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What We Are Looking For:

As a Senior IP Network Engineer at Bandwidth you will work on projects supporting and enhancing a highly resilient global network. You will work with network technologies from multiple vendors including, but not limited to, Cisco, Juniper and Palo Alto and help Bandwidth continue to strengthen parts of our network infrastructure with tooling and automation. You will learn how multiple pieces of network infrastructure interact seamlessly to provide Bandwidth's customers unparalleled voice quality.

What You'll Do:

As a Senior IP Network Engineer, you'll own the design, operation, and evolution of a highly resilient global network. You'll work across datacenter fabric, WAN, and security infrastructure and you'll have a direct hand in the automation and tooling that keeps it all running at scale.

Design and operate VxLAN/EVPN-based datacenter fabrics across multiple PoPs while also being comfortable in traditional spanning tree topologies.

Design and operate Palo Alto firewall infrastructure, including policy design, zone segmentation, and threat prevention

Architect and maintain BGP-based WAN routing across our backbone

Drive network automation initiatives — from device provisioning to event-driven remediation

Collaborate across Engineering and Operations to evaluate new technologies and deliver network improvements

Participate in an on-call rotation and perform after-hours maintenance as needed

What You Need:

10+ years of hands-on experience with service provider network infrastructure

Deep expertise in datacenter networking: VxLAN, EVPN, BGP EVPN control plane, and leaf-spine architectures

Strong Palo Alto experience: firewall policy management, Panorama, zone-based segmentation

Solid routing foundation: BGP (iBGP/eBGP), OSPF, and MPLS in production environments

Experience with Cisco (ASR, Nexus/NX-OS) and Juniper (MX, SRX) platforms

Scripting or development experience — Python, Ansible, or similar

Comfortable working in Linux environments

Experience mentoring junior engineers and leading project work independently

Strong written and verbal communication skills

Bonus Points:

Experience with ACI or other SDN/overlay controller platforms

Network certifications (CCIE, JNCIE, PCNSE, or equivalent)

Experience with using AI to contribute to your mission