Datacenter Network Engineer

🕒 April 22

🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

💵 $90.9k - $118k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🛜 Network Engineer / Network Administrator

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Hyatt

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10,000+ employees

👥 B2C

🛒 Retail

B2C • Retail • Hospitality

Hyatt is a global hospitality company that operates a range of hotels, resorts, and vacation properties. Known for its commitment to providing exceptional guest experiences, Hyatt offers various accommodation options, from luxury to more affordable stays. The company also focuses on sustainability and community engagement, ensuring responsible business practices in the hospitality sector.

📋 Description

• Responsible for the design, operation, and continuous improvement of Arista-based leaf-spine network fabric, ensuring high availability, performance, and security across our data center environments • Design, implement, and operate Arista leaf-spine architectures supporting large-scale, high-availability environments • Manage day-to-day operations of the data center network, ensuring optimal performance, resiliency, and uptime • Configure, monitor, and troubleshoot Arista switches using EOS and CloudVision (CVP) • Support and optimize EVPN/VXLAN-based overlay networks and BGP underlay routing • Continuously improve network performance, latency, and traffic flow across the fabric • Develop and execute hardware and software upgrade strategies across Arista, Cisco, and Palo Alto platforms • Perform impact analysis, risk assessments, and validation testing for network changes • Create detailed implementation and rollback plans to ensure safe execution • Implement and manage data center security controls using: Cisco Firepower (FTD/FMC), Palo Alto Networks firewalls • Design and enforce segmentation, access control, and threat prevention policies • Partner with security teams to align with enterprise security architecture and compliance requirements • Collaborate with Systems Engineering, Database, Platform Engineering, and Security teams to support application and infrastructure needs • Contribute to architecture discussions and design reviews for new initiatives • Assist in troubleshooting across infrastructure layers (network, compute, storage, and applications) • Enhance network monitoring, alerting, and observability capabilities • Identify and implement automation opportunities using tools such as Python, Ansible, or Terraform • Maintain accurate documentation of network architecture, standards, and operational procedures

🎯 Requirements

• 5–7+ years of experience in data center network engineering • 3+ years of hands-on experience managing Arista-based network fabrics • Experience designing and operating leaf-spine architectures in production environments • Hands-on experience with Cisco Firepower (FTD/FMC) and/or Palo Alto firewalls • Experience supporting mission-critical applications in enterprise environments • Demonstrated ability to perform impact analysis and execute network changes safely • Experience deploying and operating EVPN/VXLAN at scale (preferred) • Familiarity with CloudVision (CVP) for automation and network management (preferred) • Experience with network automation and infrastructure as code (Python, Ansible, Terraform) (preferred) • Exposure to cloud-integrated networking (AWS, Azure, or GCP connectivity) (preferred) • Knowledge of zero trust or micro-segmentation architectures (preferred) • Industry certifications such as: Arista ACE (Arista Certified Engineer), CCNP or CCIE (Cisco), Palo Alto PCNSE (preferred)

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual allotment of free hotel stays at Hyatt hotels globally • Flexible work schedule • Work-life benefits including wellbeing initiatives such as a complimentary Headspace subscription, and a discount at the on-site fitness center • A global family assistance policy with paid time off following the birth or adoption of a child as well as financial assistance for adoption • Paid Time Off, Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K with company match