Senior Network Solutions Engineer

Job Title: Senior Network Solutions Engineer

Location: Remote

Department: Professional Services, Customer Operations

Reports To: Director of Strategic Customer Engineering

About Us :

Platform9: A Better Way to Go Cloud Native

Platform9 is a leader in simplifying enterprise private clouds. Our flagship product, Private Cloud Director, turns existing infrastructure into a full-featured private cloud. Enterprise IT teams can manage VMs and containers with familiar GUI tools and automated APIs in a private, secure environment.

Enterprises are selecting Platform9's Private Cloud Director to migrate away from legacy virtualization platforms because it meets all of the following enterprise requirements:

- Familiar VM management experience

- Critical enterprise virtualization features: HA, DRR, networking, scale, reliability

- Compatibility with all existing hardware environments, including 3rd-party storage

- Automated migration tooling that lowers cost barrier by 10x

Platform9 was founded by a team of VMware cloud pioneers and has over 30,000 nodes in production at some of the world's largest enterprises, including Cloudera, EBSCO, Juniper Networks, and Rackspace. Platform9 is an inclusive, globally distributed company backed by prominent investors, committed to driving private cloud innovation and efficiency.

Position Overview

We are seeking a Senior Network Solutions Engineer to join our Professional Services organization. This highly skilled individual will act as a subject matter expert for networking and software-defined networking (SDN) technologies, working closely with our Systems Integrations team, Engineering teams, and PreSales engineers.

The ideal candidate will have a deep technical background in enterprise networking and a strong understanding of modern virtualized and cloud-native networking approaches, including OpenStack Neutron, VMware NSX, OVN/OVS, Calico, Cilium, and related technologies. This role will shape network designs for our Private Cloud Director (PCD) deployments, ensure successful integrations with customer environments, and create best practice documentation for internal and external stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

1. Technical Leadership & Advisory

• Provide expert network design and troubleshooting guidance to the Professional Services Systems Integrations team for PCD deployments.
• Partner with Engineering to address network architecture challenges, influence product design for better interoperability, and resolve complex escalations.
• Support pre-sales engineers in designing network architectures for customer proposals, POCs, and technical validations.

2. Solution Design & Integration

• Design and document best practice network architectures for integrating PCD with physical and virtual network infrastructures.
• Guide SDN integration efforts across multiple vendor and open-source platforms (e.g., VMware NSX, OVN/OVS, OpenStack Neutron, VXLAN, Geneve, Calico, Cilium).
• Perform hands-on configuration, testing, and optimization of networking components in customer and lab environments.

3. Documentation & Knowledge Sharing

• Develop internal best practice guides for network design, deployment, and troubleshooting in OpenStack and Kubernetes environments.
• Create customer-facing documentation to support network planning and implementation.
• Deliver enablement sessions for Professional Services, PreSales, and Support teams on networking topics and technologies.

4. Continuous Improvement & Innovation

• Stay current with advancements in networking, SDN, NFV, and cloud-native network architectures.
• Work with Engineering to propose new features and enhancements for improved network integration and automation.
• Contribute to the refinement of Professional Services delivery methodologies for network design and implementation.

Required Qualifications

• 15+ years of enterprise networking experience, including design, deployment, and troubleshooting.
• Hands-on experience with Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS), VPN-as-a-Service (VPNaaS), and Load Balancer-as-a-Service (LBaaS) solutions.
• Expertise in routing, switching, VLANs, VXLAN, BGP, OSPF, and related protocols.
• Strong background in software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV).
• Experience with OpenStack Neutron networking services and plugins, as well as integrations with major SDN controllers.
• Specialization in VMware networking (NSX-T, NSX-V) or OpenStack networking, with the ability to work across both stacks preferred.
• Knowledge of cloud-native networking for Kubernetes (e.g., Calico, Cilium, Flannel).
• Hands-on experience with network troubleshooting tools and methodologies in multi-vendor environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience automating network provisioning and configuration using tools like Ansible, Terraform, PowerShell or Python.
• Familiarity with load balancers, firewalls, and security policy automation.
• Vendor certifications (e.g., CCNP/CCIE, JNCIE, VCAP-NV, or equivalent) are highly desirable.
• Experience authoring technical whitepapers or contributing to open-source networking projects.

Core Competencies

• Excellent communication skills for technical and executive-level discussions.
• Ability to translate complex networking concepts into clear guidance for customers and teammates.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with a focus on customer outcomes.
• Collaborative mindset with the ability to work across engineering, delivery, and customer-facing teams.

Why Join Us?

• Work at the forefront of private cloud and software-defined networking innovation.
• Collaborate with a world-class team of cloud, networking, and infrastructure experts.
• Help shape network strategies for one of the industry's most advanced private cloud platforms.