{"id":4286013,"url":"https://alion.io/job/pacbio-senior-staff-network-engineer","title":"Senior Staff Network Engineer","company":{"id":58729,"name":"PacBio","domain":"pacb.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/pacbio","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":null},"role":"Networking","role_family":"Networking","seniority":"staff","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"explicit","locations":["Menlo Park, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":170400,"max":255600,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":255600},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":10,"visa_sponsorship":true,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Ansible","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"BGP","optional":false},{"name":"Configuration Management","optional":false},{"name":"DNS","optional":false},{"name":"Git","optional":false},{"name":"Okta","optional":false},{"name":"OSPF","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"SIEM","optional":false},{"name":"Terraform","optional":false},{"name":"VPN","optional":false},{"name":"Wi-Fi","optional":false},{"name":"Zero Trust","optional":false},{"name":"HPC","optional":true},{"name":"ISO 13485","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-13T21:51:55Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-13","last_verified_at":"2026-11-13T21:51:55Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"Senior Staff Network Engineer\nPacBio (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 PacBio team.\nPosition Summary:\nThe Sr. Staff Network Engineer is the senior technical authority for PacBio’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.\nResponsibilities:\nOwn the multi-year network roadmap for LAN, WAN/SD-WAN, wireless, data centers, colocation, and cloud connectivity.\nDesign resilient, high-throughput network paths from sequencing instruments to on-premises storage and AWS/Azure compute; address capacity and performance bottlenecks.\nArchitect data center and colocation networks, including spine-and-leaf designs and redundant LAG/MLAG server, storage, and uplink connectivity.\nDefine network standards for hardware, topology, addressing, BGP/OSPF routing, DNS, IPAM, and reference designs.\nLead hybrid-cloud networking designs, including AWS Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, VPCs, and relevant Azure connectivity.\nServe as the senior escalation point for complex incidents; lead root-cause analysis, post-incident reviews, observability, availability objectives, and capacity planning.\nPlan network lifecycle refreshes, site and colocation build-outs, and laboratory/data center moves with minimal business disruption.\nOwn enterprise Wi-Fi performance and reliability across corporate, laboratory, and manufacturing facilities, including coverage, capacity, roaming, interference, authentication, monitoring, and wireless optimization.\nManage 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.\nPartner with Information Security on Palo Alto Networks and other firewall policies, network segmentation, NAC/802.1X, and identity-integrated zero-trust access.\nSegment instrument, operational technology, and manufacturing networks; support validated-system change controls, audits, and ISO/SOX evidence.\nIntegrate network and firewall logs with security monitoring and incident investigations.\nAdvance network-as-code, configuration management, source control, and automated compliance using Python, Ansible, Terraform, and vendor APIs.\nMentor engineers, review technical designs, assess vendors and MSPs, and communicate technical risks and investments to stakeholders.\nRequired Qualifications:\n10+ years of network engineering experience, including 3+ years owning architecture in a multi-site enterprise.\nBachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.\nAdvanced routing and switching expertise (BGP, OSPF, VLANs, VRFs, LAG/MLAG, spanning tree, QoS) using Cisco, Arista, or Juniper.\nExperience with data center spine-and-leaf architecture, EVPN-VXLAN, colocation cross-connects, and carrier/cloud interconnects.\nDemonstrated experience troubleshooting enterprise Wi-Fi performance and managing ISP/carrier services, circuit reliability, and vendor escalations.\nHands-on experience with next-generation firewalls (Palo Alto Networks or Fortinet), VPN, network segmentation, and zero-trust network access.\nExperience with identity-integrated network access using Okta and enterprise wireless and SD-WAN solutions.\nExperience with AWS networking (Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, VPC design, hybrid routing).\nNetwork monitoring and logging expertise (SNMP, telemetry, NetFlow/sFlow, syslog) and SIEM integration.\nScripting and automation using Python and Ansible, with Git-based workflows.\nStrong troubleshooting, packet analysis, technical documentation, and cross-functional project leadership.\nExcellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.\nPreferred Experience:\nCCNP/CCIE, JNCIP/JNCIE, PCNSE, or AWS Advanced Networking certification.\nExperience in biotechnology, life sciences, medical devices, or regulated environments (GxP/ISO 13485).\nHPC/genomics data networking, 25/100 GbE, jumbo frames, RDMA, and research storage.\nOT/ICS segmentation, ZTNA/SASE platforms, and NAC tools such as Cisco ISE or Aruba ClearPass.\nTerraform, NetBox, or similar source-of-truth tools, and network observability platforms.\nAzure networking, international site deployments, or M&A network integrations.\nCandidates must have current authorization to work in the United States without the need for present or future sponsorship.\nThis role is expected to be onsite approximately 80% of the time.\nYou may be required from time to time to visit and work at PacBio locations and for such times as the Company considers necessary for the proper performance of your duties.\nAll listed tasks and responsibilities are deemed as essential functions to this position; however, business conditions may require reasonable accommodations for additional tasks and responsibilities.\nAll qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability, gender identity, and sexual orientation.\nSalary Range:\n$170,400.00 - $255,600.00To all Staffing and Recruiting Agencies: Our Careers Site is only for individuals seeking a job at PacBio. Staffing and recruiting agencies and individuals being represented by an agency are not authorized to use this site or to submit profiles, applications or resumes, and any such submissions will be considered unsolicited. PacBio does not accept unsolicited resumes or applications from agencies. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, PacBio employees or any other company location. PacBio is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes/applications.\nAll qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability, gender identity, and sexual orientation.\nIf you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, or are limited in the ability or unable to access or use this online application process and need an alternative method for applying, you may contact us at 650-521-8000, or  for assistance.\nVisit our following pages for more information on:\nFAQs\nBenefits\nCulture\nEqual Opportunity Employment\nBeware of Recruitment Fraud\nPlease be aware of employment scams where people or entities misuse PacBio’s name, or the names of PacBio employees, to post fake job advertisements or make fake job offers.\nPacBio will never extend a job offer without a personal interview and will never charge any money for joining our company. All current job openings are displayed on the Careers page of our official website.\nIf you see a job posting that is not on the PacBio official website, or have been approached with a job offer that you suspect may be fraudulent, we strongly recommend you do not respond and do not send money or provide any personal information.\nIT IS LIKELY A SCAM OR FAKE JOB AD IF:\nThe job offer requires youto pay something (for example, to purchase equipment).\nYou receive a job offer that you didn’t apply for, or without a personal interview or interaction.\nThe interview seems to involve AI video or audio.\nYou found a job on a job board or third-party channel, but the job doesn’t exist on the official PacBio careers page\nYou suspect it is a scam.\nHOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF:\nNever give personal and confidential information.\nNever pay for anything as part of interviewing for, or accepting, an offer of employment.\nIgnore it if it seems like a scam.","description_format":"text","description_chars":8665,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":10,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Biotechnology","Health Care","Genomics & Genetic Testing","Laboratory Equipment"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-13T21:51:55Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":50,"reasons":["conf:2","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-14T00:29:37Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":255600,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/pacbio-senior-staff-network-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/pacbio-senior-staff-network-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-14T00:29:37Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1040,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-15T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":58729},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=58729"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fpacbio-senior-staff-network-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"free","price":{"credits":0,"usd":0},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fpacbio-senior-staff-network-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fpacbio-senior-staff-network-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/pacbio-senior-staff-network-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fpacbio-senior-staff-network-engineer"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":4286013}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"pacb.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":4286013},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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