Sr. Staff Software Engineer - Network

UKG • Atlanta, GA

4d • $150,500 - $214,500

About The Position

UKG’s Cloud Infrastructure team designs, builds, and operates network services supporting products across data centers and public cloud environments. The team is responsible for routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, network automation, monitoring, and related services.

The Senior Staff Software Engineer, Network provides technical leadership across complex network engineering and automation initiatives. The role combines deep networking expertise with infrastructure-as-code skills to shape network architecture and standards, lead solutions from design through production operations, and improve the security, reliability, and scalability of network services. The engineer collaborates across Engineering, Architecture, Security, Product, and Business teams, translates complex requirements into practical solutions, mentors engineers, guides technical decisions, and improves how UKG designs, automates, deploys, and operates network infrastructure.

Requirements

• 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 BGP, OSPF, route redistribution, and first-hop redundancy protocols such as HSRP or VRRP.
• Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, and troubleshooting LAN and WAN environments, including 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, AWS, or Microsoft Azure.
• Experience supporting highly available production infrastructure and working within formal change management practices.
• Experience in a distributed, multi-data-center, or 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.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Google Cloud networking, including routing, load balancing, NAT, firewalls, or hybrid connectivity.
• Experience with VPN and tunneling technologies, including IPsec, SSL VPN, or GRE.
• Familiarity with SSL certificate lifecycle management, network monitoring, protocol analysis, or WAN and ISP connectivity.
• Experience establishing network automation standards, reusable tools, or CI/CD practices adopted by multiple teams.
• Relevant certifications such as CCNA, CCNP, JNCIA, JNCIS, or a public cloud networking certification.
• Experience with infrastructure security, compliance, or Agile practices.

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 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 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 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.

Benefits

• Employees may be eligible to participate in a performance-based bonus plan and receive restricted stock unit awards as part of total compensation.
• UKG describes its benefits as including flexibility and directs candidates to its benefits and rewards information; specific benefits are not listed in the posting.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed