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Senior Compute Network Engineer

Megaport· Technology – Engineering
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Hybrid (Australia (Multiple Cities)), RemoteFull-time - PermanentPosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior role responsible for design, build and evolution of data centre network fabrics for Megaport’s bare metal and accelerated compute platform, including leaf-spine, GPU and storage networks, with cross-time-zone collaboration and automation.

Responsibilities

  • Evaluation, testing and certification of new network hardware, systems and software
  • Design and deploy resilient leaf-spine network fabrics for GPU, AI and high-performance compute infrastructure
  • Design and operate IP fabrics using BGP, EVPN-VXLAN and ECMP
  • Support GPU frontend, backend, storage, management and out-of-band network connectivity
  • Configure and operate switches, routers, and data centre interconnects
  • Implement congestion management capabilities, including QoS, ECN and Priority Flow Control where required
  • Integrate GPU data centres with Megaport transport, internet transit, cloud and external connectivity services
  • Running proof of concept exercises with integration partners
  • Development of next generation network and systems architectures
  • Develop network architecture standards, low-level designs, implementation plans and operational documentation
  • Maintain technical relationships with vendor engineering teams
  • Evolving network automation and monitoring systems (Capacity/Latency/Congestion/Availability)
  • Providing technical support to internal and external customers
  • Working with internal teams to assist with deployments and operations
  • Provide technical summaries to enable executive leadership team to make sound business decisions
  • Last level escalation point for network operations, operations engineering and network engineering teams

Qualifications

  • Strong background in networking and telecommunications
  • Strong understanding of IP routing, QoS, MTU, resiliency and network failure scenarios
  • Practical Experience with BGP, EVPN-VXLAN and leaf-spine architecture
  • Experience with large scale DC networks
  • Experience with large scale MPLS networks
  • Experience writing scripts to automate tasks
  • Understanding of high-speed Ethernet, optical transceivers, fibre cabling and data centre cross-connects
  • Ability to take initiative and work effectively in a rapidly changing environment
  • Able to dig into a fault to uncover the root cause
  • Desirable: Knowledge in programming languages such as Perl and Python
  • Desirable: Understanding and exposure to an Agile environment
  • Bonus: Understanding of RoCEv2, RDMA, Priority Flow Control and ECN
  • Bonus: Familiarity with Linux networking and infrastructure-as-code practices
  • Bonus: Operational experience working with network datasets, primarily SNMP & sFlow outputs
  • Bonus: An interest in data and analysing trends

Skills

Required:Networking and telecommunicationsIP routingBGPEVPN-VXLANAutomation scripting
Nice to have:AgileLinux networking

Benefits

  • Creative, fun, and contemporary workspaces
  • Motivated team of industry experts and new talent
  • Flexible working environments
  • Cutting-edge software to drive efficient communication and collaboration
  • Training and development opportunities
  • Celebrated success with ‘Legend’ and ‘Kudos’ Awards
  • Health and wellness program and full social calendar
  • Opportunity to make a difference
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Network as a Service, Data Center and Cloud Connectivity.

Megaport offers scalable bandwidth for public and private cloud connections, metro ethernet, Data Centre backhaul, and Internet Exchange Services.

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