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versus about
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As a Principal Network Engineer, you will design, implement, and operate resilient L3/L4 network services across both data center and cloud environments. You will lead complex projects involving IP addressing, BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, and EVPN/VXLAN fabrics while driving automation and observability at scale. Your daily work involves managing VPC/VNet topologies, load balancing, and security controls such as VRFs, ACLs, and encryption to ensure zero-trust compliance. You will build infrastructure using Terraform modules, Ansible playbooks, and Python scripts within a GitOps framework. Additionally, you will manage telemetry via SNMP and NetFlow to monitor SLIs and SLOs while collaborating with SRE and security teams. This role focuses on solving complex connectivity and security challenges across hybrid environments by establishing standard architectures, mentoring junior engineers, and ensuring high availability for critical network services.
What does a Network Engineer earn?
Median $147000 from 81 postings across 20 companies.