# Senior Cloud Network Infrastructure Engineer at Platform9

- Company: Platform9
- What the company does: Platform9 offers enterprises a familiar private cloud experience with all critical enterprise features to run VMs and containers at scale. Backed by Redpoint.
- Company website: http://platform9.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote (US)
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-07-21
- Apply by: 2026-10-12
- Apply: https://platform9systems.applytojob.com/apply/5SAjemcI6C/Senior-Cloud-Network-Infrastructure-Engineer
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/platform9-senior-cloud-network-infrastructure-engineer/

## About the role

We are seeking an experienced Cloud Network Infrastructure Engineer to join our cloud engineering team. The ideal candidate will design, deploy, operationalize, and maintain high-performance Software-Defined Network (SDN) architectures, bridging deep data center networking expertise with modern cloud-native telemetry, microservices, OpenStack environments, and Kubernetes-native application development.

## What they're looking for

- Cloud & Virtualization Platforms: OpenStack (Neutron, Nova, Metadata Service), OpenStack Ansible, KVM/QEMU, DevStack
- Software-Defined Networking (SDN): Open vSwitch (OVS), Open Virtual Network (OVN), OpenFlow, SDN Controllers
- Overlay & Encapsulation: VxLAN, GENEVE, VLAN (802.1Q)
- L2/L3 Protocols & Data Center: BGP, EVPN, OSPF, ECMP, VRRP, IPv4/IPv6, ARP/NDP, Ethernet (802.3), STP/RSTP, L3 CLOS, LACP, MCT/vLAG
- Cloud-Native & Telemetry: Kubernetes, Docker, Kubernetes Controllers, Operator SDK, CRDs, gRPC, Protocol Buffers, Kafka, Numaflow
- Security & Packet Inspection: IPsec (IKEv2, ESP), IPTables/Netfilter, NFTables, Conntrack