What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Data Center Network Engineer position at VIDA?
About VIDA
VIDA builds identity platforms and secure credentialing systems used by Financial, government services, and enterprise customers to verify and manage digital identity at scale. Our products combine high-availability platforms, PKI/CA integrations, and audit-grade logging to deliver tamper-resistant authentication, credential issuance, and secure API gateways. We’re a product-first engineering team that values reliability, automation, and engineers who take ownership of production systems.
Role summary
We’re hiring a hands-on Senior Data Center Network Engineer to design, implement, and operate our Jakarta data center and enterprise networks. You’ll own HLD/LLD, deployments, monitoring, and incident resolution for Nexus/Catalyst environments, MPLS backbones, and overlay fabrics — with a strong emphasis on uptime, security, and audit readiness.
Key responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end network design, implementation, and production support for data center and enterprise networks.
- Produce and maintain HLDs, LLDs, runbooks and UAT test scripts; conduct knowledge transfers.
- Design and operate Cisco Nexus-based fabric (leaf/spine, vPC), campus Catalyst switching, and WAN/MPLS backbones.
- Implement and troubleshoot routing (BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, EIGRP), MPLS (LDP, L2VPN, L3VPN, MPLS-TE) and overlay tech (VXLAN, IPsec, OTV, ACI).
- Harden networks for security and compliance: segmentation, port security, ACLs, route filtering, PBR and QoS.
- Lead change management for high-availability environments; perform staging and validation for device rollouts.
- Drive incident response for packet loss, path anomalies and performance degradation; perform RCA and mitigation.
- Coordinate with platform, security and compliance teams to ensure audit readiness (CA/PKI integrations, ISO, WebTrust) and assist during audits.
Required qualifications
- 7 years in enterprise and data center networking with demonstrable hands-on experience designing and operating production networks.
- Deep practical knowledge of MPLS backbone technologies and multi-vendor WAN environments.
- Strong routing and switching skills: BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, VLANs, Spanning Tree variants, EtherChannel, HSRP/VRRP.
- Proven experience with Nexus (N3K/N5K/N7K/N9K) and Catalyst platforms; experience with fabric/leaf-spine architectures.
- Solid troubleshooting skills for packet flows, QoS, routing policies and overlay overlays.
- Experience creating HLD/LLD, performing UAT and delivering knowledge transfers.
- Excellent communication and documentation skills; able to work with cross-functional teams and customers.
Preferred skills
- Familiarity with Certification Authority (CA) operations, PKI lifecycle and operational impacts on network design.
- Knowledge of ISO management systems relevant to IT/IS (e.g., ISO/IEC 27001) and practical steps to maintain audit evidence.
- Understanding of WebTrust audit requirements for CA operations and how network controls support audit trails and non-repudiation.
- Hands-on with Cisco ACI (APIC, leaf-spine), Nexus Dashboard (NDFC/NDI/NDO/NDDB) and SD-Access.
- Experience with network automation (Ansible, Python) and configuration management.
- Exposure to security tooling and logging integration (Splunk, SIEM ingestion of NetFlow/logs).