Senior Network Engineer (Amsterdam)

As a Senior Network Engineer at Together, you are responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining our network infrastructure to ensure seamless connectivity and optimal performance for all user-facing services and production systems. As both a strategic planner and a hands-on engineer, you apply sound networking principles, operational discipline, and advanced automation to our network environments.

You specialize in networking systems—including routing, switching, network security, and protocols—implementing best practices for availability, reliability, and scalability. You have a keen interest in network design, optimization, and emerging technologies in HPC-based data center networking.

Outstanding problem-solving abilities and a comprehensive understanding of fundamental network theory are also critical to your success.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, manage and maintain global multi-vendor, multi-protocol high performance compute networks.
• Analyze data to diagnose and identify root causes to network issues to minimize downtime.
• Evaluate and recommend network technologies, hardware, and software solutions.
• Participate in design reviews to ensure the proposed network architecture aligns with business needs and is optimized for performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Manage relationships with external vendors and partners to test and verify hardware and software selections.
• Develop, and deploy systems and tools to keep all networks running reliably and efficiently.
• Establish and implement industry best practices and contribute to the design of new scalable network solutions.
• Ensure compliance with IT governance standards and best practices.
• Lead projects to address complex technical challenges, directly contributing to roadmaps and partner alongside the best engineers in the industry to develop world-class solutions.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional experience building, managing, and supporting large-scale hybrid data center networks (excluding enterprise networks).
• High level of proficiency with TCP/IP networking architecture and technologies such as BGP, OSPF, VXLAN, EVPN, and QoS.
• Experience developing network automation pipelines using Python, Ansible, or other languages/tools utilized in infrastructure automation.
• Proficient in using tools such as Wireshark, tcpdump, nmap, MTR, and curl to identify issues.