Senior Network Engineer

Senior Staff Network Engineer Pac Bio  (NASDAQ: PACB) is a premier life science technology company that designs, develops, and manufactures advanced sequencing solutions to help scientists and clinical researchers resolve genetically complex problems. Our mission is to enable the promise of genomics to better human health. Genomics is core to all biological processes, and our advanced genomics tools provide scientists and clinical researchers the insights to better understand biology and health.

We are now entering the century of biology and genomics is at the heart of the next revolution. Become part of the new paradigm in gene sequencing and help shape the future of genomic study by joining the Pac Bio team.

Position Summary:

The Sr. Staff Network Engineer is the senior technical authority for Pac Bio’s enterprise, lab, manufacturing, data center, and cloud networks. This individual contributor owns network architecture, long-term reliability, and technical standards across sites; enables high-throughput movement of sequencing data; strengthens segmentation and security for regulated environments; and advances network automation. The role provides technical leadership across IT, Information Security, Engineering, R&D, Manufacturing, Quality, and external partners.

Responsibilities:

Own the multi-year network roadmap for LAN, WAN/SD-WAN, wireless, data centers, colocation, and cloud connectivity.

Design resilient, high-throughput network paths from sequencing instruments to on-premises storage and AWS/Azure compute; address capacity and performance bottlenecks.

Architect data center and colocation networks, including spine-and-leaf designs and redundant LAG/MLAG server, storage, and uplink connectivity.

Define network standards for hardware, topology, addressing, BGP/OSPF routing, DNS, IPAM, and reference designs.

Lead hybrid-cloud networking designs, including AWS Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, VPCs, and relevant Azure connectivity.

Serve as the senior escalation point for complex incidents; lead root-cause analysis, post-incident reviews, observability, availability objectives, and capacity planning.

Plan network lifecycle refreshes, site and colocation build-outs, and laboratory/data center moves with minimal business disruption.

Own enterprise Wi-Fi performance and reliability across corporate, laboratory, and manufacturing facilities, including coverage, capacity, roaming, interference, authentication, monitoring, and wireless optimization.

Manage the technical performance of ISPs and network carriers, including circuit inventories, utilization, service levels, outage escalations, redundancy, and connectivity improvements; partner with IT leadership on renewals and cost optimization.

Partner with Information Security on Palo Alto Networks and other firewall policies, network segmentation, NAC/802.1X, and identity-integrated zero-trust access.

Segment instrument, operational technology, and manufacturing networks; support validated-system change controls, audits, and ISO/SOX evidence.

Integrate network and firewall logs with security monitoring and incident investigations.

Advance network-as-code, configuration management, source control, and automated compliance using Python, Ansible, Terraform, and vendor APIs.Mentor engineers, review technical designs, assess vendors and MSPs, and communicate technical risks and investments to stakeholders.

Required Qualifications:

10+ years of network engineering experience, including 3+ years owning architecture in a multi-site enterprise.

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Advanced routing and switching expertise (BGP, OSPF, VLANs, VRFs, LAG/MLAG, spanning tree, QoS) using Cisco,…