Overview :
We are looking for a highly experienced Edge Network Engineer to lead complex edge, network, and cloud platform deployments. This role will act as a technical lead and subject matter expert during onboarding, migrations, and new platform integrations. Success in this role requires exceptional technical knowledge, strong communication skills, and the ability to lead both technical workstreams and customer expectations.
The Edge Network Engineer position provides customer facing network design, implementation, configuration standardization as it relates to network routing protocols, switching and security methodology. As part of the Edge Network Engineering team, this role also serves as a Tier 4 escalation point from the global support organization.
Experience with SD-WAN—especially Versa Networks—is a major asset and will elevate your candidacy.
Key Responsibilities :
- Lead customer deployments of edge computing infrastructure, cloud integration, and SD-WAN platforms.
- Act as the technical point of contact for end-to-end implementation activities, including architecture planning, configuration, testing, and go-live support.
- Work closely with project managers, systems engineers, and customer stakeholders to align on design and timelines.
- Troubleshoot deployment issues across operating systems, hypervisors, containers, and networks.
- Develop automation scripts and reusable tooling to improve speed and consistency of deployments within the larger context of the company strategy.
- Document procedures, configurations, and lessons learned; contribute to internal knowledge bases.
- Mentor junior engineers and participate in internal enablement and cross-functional collaboration.
- Participate in periodic customer workshops to review implementation design as needed to support large-scale or complex rollouts.
Qualifications :
- Extensive experience in Linux system administration and troubleshooting.
- Proficiency with Type 1 and Type 2 hypervisors (e.g., KVM, VMware).
- Familiarity with containerization technologies; experience with lightweight Kubernetes distributions (e.g., K3s) preferred.
- Strong understanding of networking principles including routing, VLANs, firewalls, DNS, NAT, Routing protocols and proxies.
- Hands-on experience configuring and managing network interfaces, both physical and virtual.
- Prior experience with SD-WAN deployment and management; Versa SD-WAN experience is a strong plus.
- Proficiency in using tools such as tcpdump, Wireshark, iptables, netstat, and other network diagnostic utilities.
- Experience with cloud service providers such as Azure or AWS, including VM provisioning, datastore configuration, and SSO setup.
- Comfortable working with REST APIs and using tools like Postman, Swagger, curl, and Python scr