About the teamUKG's Cloud Infrastructure team designs, builds, and operates the network services that support our products across data centers and public cloud environments. The team is responsible for routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, network automation, monitoring, and related services.
About the roleAs a Senior Staff Software Engineer, Network, you will provide technical leadership across complex network engineering and automation initiatives. This role combines deep networking expertise with strong infrastructure-as-code skills. You will shape network architecture and standards, lead solutions from design through production operations, and help make network services more secure, reliable, and scalable.
You'll work across Engineering, Architecture, Security, Product, and Business teams to translate complex requirements into practical network solutions. You'll also mentor engineers, guide technical decisions, and improve how UKG designs, automates, deploys, and operates network infrastructure.
Key responsibilities:- Lead the design, implementation, automation, and operation of network infrastructure across data centers and public cloud environments.
- Set technical direction for complex network initiatives, including architecture, implementation patterns, operational readiness, and long-term maintainability.
- Apply deep expertise in routing, switching, segmentation, hybrid connectivity, traffic management, and high availability.
- Develop and maintain infrastructure as code and network automation using tools and languages such as Terraform, Ansible, and Python.
- Design and improve continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines that test, validate, secure, and deploy network configurations and infrastructure code.
- Drive automation for network provisioning, configuration management, compliance validation, and operational processes.
- Lead the investigation and resolution of complex, high-impact network issues using packet captures, protocol analyzers, logs, monitoring platforms, and other diagnostic tools.
- Establish and improve network engineering standards, design patterns, operational practices, and technical documentation.
- Review network designs and code, identify risks and dependencies, and provide clear technical recommendations.
- Partner with Architecture, Security, Cloud Infrastructure, Product Engineering, and Operations teams to align solutions with business and service requirements.
- Mentor engineers and support knowledge sharing to strengthen the team's networking and automation capabilities.
- Ensure network changes meet change management, security, governance, and compliance requirements.
- Participate in an on-call rotation and support planned work outside normal business hours when required.
About youBasic qualifications:- 12+ years of professional network engineering experience, including extensive hands-on experience with complex production networks.
- 7+ years of experience developing or operating network automation or infrastructure as code using tools and languages such as Terraform, Ansible, and Python.
- Experience leading the design and delivery of network solutions across multiple teams or complex environments.
- Strong knowledge of routing protocols and concepts, including Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), route redistribution, and first-hop redundancy protocols such as Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) or Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP).
- Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, and troubleshooting local area network (LAN) and wide area network (WAN) environments, including virtual LANs (VLANs), trunking, spanning tree, link aggregation, and network segmentation.
- Experience building or leading CI/CD workflows to test, validate, or deploy infrastructure code or network configurations.
- Experience with public cloud networking in at least one major cloud platform: Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Microsoft Azure.
- Experience supporting highly available production infrastructure and working within formal change management practices.
- Experience in a distributed, mult-data-center, or software-as-a-service (SaaS) environment.
- Hands-on experience with Cisco, Juniper, F5, Palo Alto Networks, or equivalent network technologies.
- Strong troubleshooting, communication, and technical decision-making skills, including the ability to explain tradeoffs to technical and nontechnical partners.
- Willingness to participate in on-call support and planned after-hours work.
Preferred qualifications:- Experience with Google Cloud networking, including routing, load balancing, network address translation (NAT), firewalls, or hybrid connectivity.
- Experience with virtual private network (VPN) and tunneling technologies, including IPsec, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) VPN, or Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE).
- Familiarity with SSL certificate lifecycle management, network monitoring, protocol analysis, or WAN and Internet service provider (ISP) connectivity.
- Experience establishing network automation standards, reusable tools, or CI/CD practices adopted by multiple teams.
- Relevant certifications such as Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP), Juniper Networks Certified Internet Associate (JNCIA), Juniper Networks Certified Internet Specialist (JNCIS), or a public cloud networking certification.
- Experience with infrastructure security, compliance, or Agile practices.
The pay range for this position is $150,500 to $214,500. The actual base pay offered may vary depending on skills, experience, job-related knowledge and work location. In addition to base pay, employees may be eligible to participate in a performance-based bonus plan and to receive restricted stock unit awards as part of total compensation. Learn more about UKG's benefits and rewards at https://www.ukg.com/about-us/careers/benefits
