Senior Network Engineer
Senior Network Engineer on Anduril's Core Network Engineering team, designing and operating campus, datacenter, WAN/backbone, multi-cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP), and edge security infrastructure using Arista, Cisco, and Palo Alto platforms. Owns carrier circuit delivery, cloud interconnects, observability, and serves as Tier-3 escalation while mentoring junior engineers.
- Compensation
- $146K–$194K / yr
- Location
- Costa Mesa, California, United States
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Category
- Network engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 8+ years of hands-on experience designing, scaling, and maintaining complex multi-vendor enterprise, backbone, and campus production networks
- Deep operational mastery of BGP (path selection, community manipulation, convergence optimization) and OSPF
- Production experience deploying and troubleshooting EVPN-VXLAN fabrics
- Experience designing multi-tenant network architectures (VRFs, dynamic segmentation, macro- and micro-segmentation)
- Expert-level packet analysis skills (tcpdump, Wireshark)
- Experience working with carriers/telecom providers to scope, order, and turn up high-bandwidth transport circuits (10G/100G waves, dark fiber, DIA)
- Proven experience provisioning cloud-native networking and dedicated connectivity (AWS Direct Connect, Azure ExpressRoute, GCP Cloud Interconnect, VPC/VNet peering, Transit Gateways)
- Ability to read, review, and write foundational Python
- Working familiarity with automation ecosystems (Nornir, Jinja2, Netmiko) and REST APIs
- Comfort with Git workflows for configuration and change management
- Expert-level Arista experience: EOS, CloudVision (CVP), modern spine-and-leaf designs
- Expert-level Cisco experience: Catalyst 9k series (IOS-XE) and Nexus switches (NX-OS)
- Expert-level Palo Alto Networks experience: NGFW, Panorama, App-ID, User-ID, GlobalProtect
- Enterprise wireless experience: Juniper Mist & Aruba (Mist Cloud, AirWave/Conductor, ClearPass/RADIUS, 802.1X high-density designs)
- Exceptional cross-functional communication, translating non-standard requirements into resilient network architectures
Nice to have
- Senior or expert-level certifications (CCNP/CCIE, JNCIP/JNCIE, PCNSE, or Arista ACE)
- Public cloud networking certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty, Azure Network Engineer Associate)
- Experience operating in regulated or compliance-driven environments (ITAR, EAR, NIST 800-171, CMMC)
- Experience with Network Source-of-Truth platforms (NetBox, Nautobot)
- Hands-on experience with modern observability platforms (Telegraf, InfluxDB, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenConfig/gNMI)
Full description
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We are seeking a Senior Network Infrastructure Engineer to join our Core Network Engineering team. You will be joining an established, collaborative group of four engineers (1 Staff Engineer, 1 Senior Network Engineer, 1 Dedicated Wireless/RF Engineer, and 1 Network Engineer).
In this role, you will be a pillar for our core routing, switching, WAN/backbone transport, multi-cloud interconnects, and edge security systems. Rather than building automation frameworks from scratch, you will partner closely with our dedicated Senior Network Automation Engineer to identify programmatic bottlenecks, standardize configurations, and integrate our multi-vendor ecosystem into our automation pipelines.
You will be instrumental in consulting directly with internal business lines—spanning hardware engineering, software development, advanced manufacturing, and flight-test operations—to translate unconventional technical constraints into robust, secure, and multi-tenant network designs. Additionally, you will own the delivery of high-capacity carrier transport (wave circuits, dark fiber), provision multi-cloud networking (AWS, Azure, GCP), elevate operational observability, mentor junior engineers, and serve as an escalation point for complex Tier-3 network issues.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Design, scale, and maintain resilient campus, datacenter, and field-test networks utilizing both traditional three-tier and EVPN-VXLAN fabric designs across Arista (EOS) and Cisco (Catalyst/Nexus) platforms.
- Architect, scale, and maintain our corporate and datacenter WAN backbone—owning carrier circuit delivery, capacity planning, and turn-up for optical waves, dark fiber, and DIA across colocation and telecom providers.
- Design, provision, and maintain resilient hybrid-cloud transit networks across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Implement and manage dedicated interconnects (AWS Direct Connect, Azure ExpressRoute, Google Cloud Interconnect), Transit Gateways/VNet Hubs, dynamic BGP peering, and cloud-native routing architectures.
- Develop scalable network standards, reference architectures, and implementation patterns.