Senior Platform Engineer; Network Infrastructure - Global Network

Senior Platform Engineer (Network Infrastructure) – Global Payment Network

Do you love building and pioneering in the technology space? Do you enjoy solving complex technical problems in a fast‑paced, collaborative, inclusive, and iterative delivery environment? At Capital One, you’ll be part of a big group of makers, breakers, doers and disruptors that love to solve real problems and meet real customer needs. As a Platform Engineer (Network Engineer), you’ll deliver highly available, scalable, and diverse network infrastructure to facilitate key business functions at Capital One.

At the corner of our industry’s best practices and an automation security‑first mindset lies your project work. You’ll leverage both to ensure we deliver data quickly and securely.

• Design, deploy and optimize WAN/Backbone/Carrier‑hotel/Cloud connectivity to support scalable high‑performance WAN operations.
• Test, analyze, perform corrective actions, and restore network equipment and services in a timely and accurate manner to reduce application impact. Collaborate with various internal stakeholders to stabilize critical network outages.
• Plan, lead high‑level and low‑level design and implementation of WAN network changes, keeping infrastructure compliant with the latest codes and scaling horizontally to meet growing business needs.
• Serve as the highest level of escalation for any network engineering troubleshooting. Perform proofs of concept, chaos testing, and create, maintain, and update support documentation for the operations team.
• Collaborate with architects, operations, and security teams to ensure high availability and redundancy, disaster recovery, and compliance with financial industry standards.
• Deploy 10G/100G Ciena dark‑fiber ring, point‑to‑point circuits, wave circuits, DIA, AWS & GCP cloud connectivity.
• Develop scripts to support and maintain WAN infrastructure.
• Assist in 24/7 on‑call weekly rotation to support network infrastructure and support off‑business‑hours change deployments as needed.
• Use automation, system tools, open‑source solutions, observability, and ‘security first’ principles in daily work.
• Design network architecture diagrams using Visio or Lucid Charts.
• Deliver project presentations to help the operations team up‑skill and facilitate lab recreations with Cisco Modelling Labs, VIRL, GNS3, etc.
• Initiate high‑level solution design approaches and guide the team to achieve desired key software delivery capabilities using automated, coded enterprise and observability tools.
• Research emerging technologies and solutions to resolve business problems and evangelize the new solution to production.

• High School Diploma, GED, or equivalent certification.
• At least 4 years of experience using build and deployment tools (Jenkins, Git Hub, or Artifactory).
• At least 2 years of experience with AWS.

• 5+ years of experience with network engineering.
• 3+ years of experience with AWS.
• 2+ years of experience in Agile practices.
• CCNP (Cisco Certified Network Professional) certification.

Chicago, IL: $119,400 ­– $136,200 for Senior Platform Engineer

McLean, VA: $131,300 ­– $149,800 for Senior Platform Engineer

Riverwoods, IL: $119,400 ­– $136,200 for Senior Platform Engineer

This role is eligible to earn performance‑based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long‑term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non‑discretionary depending on the plan.

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well‑being. Eligibility varies based on full or part‑time status, exempt or non‑exempt status, and management level.

This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days. No agencies please.

Capital One is an equal‑opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/veteran) committed to non‑discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Capital One promotes a drug‑free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with…