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title: 'Senior Compute Network Engineer at Megaport'
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# Senior Compute Network Engineer at Megaport

- **Company:** Megaport
- **Location:** Australia
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-16
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/megaport/4c09a935-9ad4-4e94-8377-ee960d258dea

## Job description

## About Megaport

We’re not your typical tech company – and we don’t want to be. Megaport is the global leader in Network as a Service (NaaS), and has transformed the way businesses connect to the cloud, data centers, and each other. We’re publicly listed on the Australian Stock Exchange and partnered with the biggest names in tech like Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Oracle, IBM, and more. Headquartered in Brisbane with a crew of over 600 people spread across Asia-Pacific, Europe, and the Americas, our employees enjoy an environment that is collaborative, supportive, and (actually) fun.

## Our Team Culture

We’re a team of problem solvers, pixel pushers, code slingers, and cloud fanatics. Culture is more than a poster on the wall here – collaboration beats hierarchy, curiosity fuels our growth, and everyone’s voice matters. We take our work seriously, but not ourselves. We work across time zones to execute on our global vision, trust each other to get things done, and never compromise our values for commercial gain. Most importantly, we place our customers at the center of everything we do.

We’re committed to increasing representation in the tech industry and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. Don’t meet every requirement? That’s okay. If you’re excited about this role, we encourage you to apply.

## The Role

Reporting to the Head of Compute Networking, this role is responsible for the design, build and ongoing evolution of the data centre network fabrics that underpin Latitude's bare metal and accelerated compute platform. You'll work across leaf-spine fabrics, GPU and storage networks, and the automation that keeps them consistent at scale - partnering with internal engineering teams, vendors and integration partners to deliver infrastructure that is fast, predictable and operable. This is the first Compute Networking role based in Australia. You'll be the local anchor point for the region and will work day to day with the existing team in Brazil, so comfort operating across time zones, and a degree of self-sufficiency, matters as much as the technical depth.

## What You'll Be Doing

- Evaluation, testing and certification of new network hardware, systems and software
- Design and deploy resilient leaf-spine network fabrics for GPU, AI and high-performance compute infrastructure.
- Design and operate IP fabrics using BGP, EVPN-VXLAN and ECMP.
- Support GPU frontend, backend, storage, management and out-of-band network connectivity.
- Configure and operate switches, routers, and data centre interconnects.
- Implement congestion management capabilities, including QoS, ECN and Priority Flow Control where required.
- Integrate GPU data centres with Megaport transport, internet transit, cloud and external connectivity services.
- Running proof of concept exercises with integration partners
- Development of next generation network and systems architectures
- Develop network architecture standards, low-level designs, implementation plans and operational documentation.
- Maintain technical relationships with vendor engineering teams
- Evolving network automation and monitoring systems (Capacity/Latency/Congestion/Availability)
- Providing technical support to internal and external customers
- Working with internal teams to assist with deployments and operations
- Provide technical summaries to enable executive leadership team to make sound business decisions
- Last level escalation point for network operations, operations engineering and network engineering teams.

## What We Are Looking For

- Passionate about technology and using technology to solve problems
- Strong work ethic and willingness to continuously upskill
- Strong background in networking and telecommunications
- Strong understanding of IP routing, QoS, MTU, resiliency and network failure scenarios.
- Practical Experience with BGP, EVPN-VXLAN and leaf-spine architecture.
- Experience with large scale DC networks
- Experience with large scale MPLS networks
- Experience writing scripts to automate tasks
- Understanding of high-speed Ethernet, optical transceivers, fibre cabling and data centre cross-connects.
- Ability to take initiative and work effectively in a rapidly changing environment
- Able to dig into a fault to uncover the root cause
- Desirable: Knowledge in programming languages such as Perl and Python
- Desirable: Understanding and exposure to an Agile environment
- Bonus: Understanding of RoCEv2, RDMA, Priority Flow Control and ECN.
- Bonus: Familiarity with Linux networking and infrastructure-as-code practices.
- Bonus: Operational experience working with network datasets, primarily SNMP & sFlow outputs
- Bonus: An interest in data and analysing trends

## What We Offer

- Creative, fun, and contemporary workspaces
- Motivated team of industry experts and new talent
- Flexible working environments
- Cutting-edge software to drive efficient communication and collaboration
- Training and development opportunities
- Celebrated success with ‘Legend’ and ‘Kudos’ Awards
- Health and wellness program and full social calendar
- Opportunity to make a difference

## #LI-DNI

If you have any questions, please reach out to Megaport's Talent Acquisition Team at Careers@megaport.com

NOTE: All Megaport business correspondence is conducted via our business email accounts (@megaport.com). If you have any concerns, please reach out to Megaport's careers team careers@megaport.com directly and we will verify the legitimacy of any communication. Megaport will not ask you to create an account via Microsoft teams, and does not associate with any email accounts under "@megaportau.com".

All applications will be treated in confidence. Please see Part 2 of our Privacy Policy to see what information Megaport collects from job applicants, why, and how we store and use it. Note that you’re entitled to know what personal data of yours Megaport holds, to request updates, rectification, and in some circumstances restriction or deletion thereof if you object (you being entitled to withdraw your consent to our holding your information at any time). Please see Part 5 of our Privacy Policy for more details on this and how to contact Megaport's data protection officer if you have any further privacy-related questions. Candidates who meet the selection criteria will be invited to attend an interview. Strictly no Recruitment Agencies.

## About Megaport

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Megaport provides a global Software Defined Network (SDN) platform that enables on-demand, private connectivity between enterprises, cloud providers, and data centers.
- **Entity Type**: Public (ASX: MP1)
- **Headquarters**: Brisbane, Australia (with a major office in London, UK)
- **Founded**: 2013
- **Founders**: Bevan Slattery

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Cloud connectivity, Network as a Service (NaaS), data center interconnection
- **Target customers**: Enterprises, cloud service providers, managed service providers, and telecommunications companies (B2B)
- **Mission statement**: “Take everything we know about traditional networking—flip it and reverse it—and put the power back into the hands of the consumer.”

## Products & Services
- **Megaport Virtual Edge (MVE)**: Virtual network functions (e.g., firewalls, SD-WAN) delivered as-a-service through the Megaport platform.
- **Megaport Cloud Router (MCR)**: Dynamic routing and multi-cloud connectivity with options for 100G ports, packet filtering, and IPsec tunnels.
- **Megaport Internet**: Dedicated internet access provisioned in under 60 seconds.
- **Global WAN as a Service**: Interconnect enterprise wide area networks across multiple regions via a single platform.
- **AI Exchange**: Dedicated connectivity to GPU providers and AI model ecosystems.
- **Financial Services Exchange**:: Private, low-latency connectivity for financial trading firms.
- **Data Center Interconnect** (DCI)**: Point-to-point connectivity between data centers over a private network.
- **Megaport Terraform**:: Infrastructure-as-Code automation for Megaport resources.
- **Compute, Network & Storage on Demand**:: Bare-metal GPU/CPU infrastructure and storage connected through the Megaport backbone.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**:: Not publicly available (ASX-listed, but recent market cap not disclosed in provided sources)
- **Key Metric**:: Annual revenue >$395.2 million (FY2025 est., from company overview)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**:: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, IBM Cloud, Alibaba, Salesforce, SAP, Rackspace, Cloudflare, OVHcloud (key cloud partners) **Customers**:: >4,000 customer logos; >37,000 services active
- **Growth Signals**:: Entered three new countries (Spain, Italy, Brazil) in recent year; deployed 400G backbone; launched seven new solutions in 2024; crossed 1,000 enabled data-center locations in 2025; named first provider on AWS Marketplace for AWS Direct Connect network services.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Larest SDN platform globally** with presence in >1,200 data centers across >185 cities in 31 countries.
- **Neutral platform** – not tied to any single data center operator, giving customers freedom of choice.
- **Pay-as-you-go, no setup fees** with real-time provisioning (seconds vs. weeks/months).
- **ISO/EC 2701-certified network** ensuring enterprise-rade security.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling for AI workloads** – Project Centurion prepares the network for future compute and AI demands, with high-performance GPU and 100G/400G connectivity.
- **Expanding global footprint** – adding new locations and countries (e.g., Spain, Italy, Brazil) and deepening presence in existing regions.
- **Platform exension** – introducing new services like AI Exchange, Financial Services Exchange, and Megaport Internet to capture adjacent markets.

## Why Work Here
- **Global, diverse culture** with offices in Brisbane and London and a remote-friendly approach (virtual interviews via Google Hangouts, distributed teams).
- **Open-plan offices** that welcome pets and children – a family-inclusive environment.
- **Engneering focus** – hires for roles like Senior Network Automation Engineer, Senior Backend Software Engineer, and Engineering Manager, indicating a strong technical team.
- **Career growth** – company growing rapidly with >1,200 employees and expanding into new markets and product lines.
- **Benefits** (not explicitly detailed) – publically listed company offering stock and compettive compensation (implied by public filings).

## Sources
1. [Megaport.com](https://www.megaport.com/)
2. [Megaport Business Overview – Investor Page](https://www.megaport.com/investor/business-overview/)
3[. Megaport About Us](https://www.megaport.com/about-megaport/)
4. [Megaport Careers](https://www.megaport.com/careers/)
5. [Megaport LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/megaport)

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