Network Engineer

The role

The Network Engineer will own the reliability, security, and evolution of global office networks. This includes designing, deploying, and operating wired and wireless networks, building automated operations, and securing access.

What you will do

• Design, deploy, and operate high-performance wired and wireless networks across offices, branches, and large campus environments.
• Own network delivery for offices, expansions, and moves including procurement, circuit turn-up, and vendor coordination.
• Build secure connectivity across offices, cloud infrastructure, and Devin environments.
• Create repeatable reference architectures, configuration standards, and deployment playbooks.
• Own network monitoring and observability using telemetry and analytics.
• Develop scripts, reusable tooling, and data pipelines in Python, Go, TypeScript, or another modern language.
• Apply infrastructure-as-code, APIs, source control, and CI/CD to automate network configuration and deployment.
• Implement secure, identity-aware network access and segmentation.
• Partner with Security on firewalls, threat detection, and incident response.
• Troubleshoot systematically across the OSI model.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience designing, deploying, and operating enterprise or campus networks, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience building and operating networks in a hypergrowth startup.
• A bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, network engineering, or a related discipline—or equivalent practical experience.
• Demonstrated depth in wireless RF engineering and enterprise switching and routing.
• Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, routing protocols, VPN and zero-trust remote access technologies such as Cloudflare WARP.
• Experience designing for high availability, fault isolation, capacity, and scale.
• Experience with network performance monitoring, telemetry, alerting, and analytics.
• Experience automating network operations with a modern programming or scripting language and applying APIs, infrastructure-as-code, Git, or CI/CD.
• Working knowledge of network security and identity controls, including IEEE 802.1X, NAC, AAA, RBAC, segmentation, IDS/IPS, or related technologies.
• Experience coordinating carriers, contractors, and vendors.

Nice to have

• High-density wireless, modern Wi-Fi, or large multi-site campuses.
• IaaS cloud networking in AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.
• Advanced routing, SD-WAN, SASE, or hybrid-cloud connectivity.
• Network telemetry and analytics using NetFlow/IPFIX, gNMI, or similar tools.
• Automation using NetBox, Ansible, Terraform, or similar platforms.
• Applying AI or AIOps to reliability, capacity planning, or incident response.
• CCNP Enterprise, CWNP, or equivalent demonstrated technical depth.

About the company

Cognition is an applied AI lab building end-to-end software agents and the makers of Devin, the first AI software engineer.