Network Engineer - Core Infrastructure

If you thrive in a challenging, fun, fast-paced environment, the Network Engineer role within Core Infrastructure Engineering at Kraken is for you! This is a strategic, security-minded, hands-on position critical to Kraken's success - on a highly dedicated team that designs, builds, secures, and operates the entire network and data-center infrastructure for one of the world's leading cryptocurrency exchanges. We want a dynamic, code-forward self-starter who thinks "outside the box," sweats the operational details, and automates the repetitive work away. This role spans four disciplines - build, secure, operate, and automate. We don't expect anyone to master all of them on day one. We hire across levels: earlier-career engineers will focus on hands-on build and the operational request queue and grow into design and tooling, while senior engineers will lead fabric/network design, own automation, and mentor the team.

The opportunity

Design & build data centers

• Design and build data centers end-to-end: cages, racks, PDU/power, structured cabling, and hardware install

• Deliver connectivity - circuits, dark fiber, and DIA - including carrier/vendor coordination, cross-connects, and capacity planning

• Stand up and evolve modern data-center fabrics (e.g., Cisco ACI and HPE Juniper Apstra)

Secure the network

• Design, implement, and defend a "zero-trust," defense-in-depth network, with firewalls at the center (policy, segmentation, secure connectivity)

• Implement and evolve enterprise network access controls (RBAC, least-privilege, segmentation)

• Partner with Engineering and IT Security so security is "built-in" from the start and features ship securely and monitored

Operate & respond

• Serve as a first responder to a high volume of inbound infrastructure requests - provisioning, access, connectivity, and troubleshooting - and keep the queue moving

• Monitor and maintain all physical infrastructure (network, security, compute), cloud environments, and remote sites; respond to critical incidents to maximize uptime

Automate & tool

• Manage and deploy "infrastructure as code" at scale

• Build team tooling - automation, internal utilities, and AI agents - to reduce toil and scale the team

• Write high-quality policies, procedures, and technical documentation; evangelize and (at senior levels) mentor on secure-network practices

What you bring

• 2+ years of network engineering with a security-minded approach

• Hands-on with firewalls (e.g., Palo Alto Networks / PAN-OS / Panorama) - a huge plus

• Hands-on data-center / physical infrastructure work: racking, cabling, power, cross-connects, and hardware install

• Working knowledge of switching (VLANs, capacity planning) and routing (OSPF, BGP, ECMP, PBR)

• Exposure to public cloud networking (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and hybrid connectivity

• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code / automation (e.g., Terraform, Ansible) and a code-forward mindset

• Comfort with VPN / remote-access connectivity

• A bias for automating repetitive work and a strong operational / ownership instinct

• Industry-standard platforms from vendors such as Palo Alto Networks, Cisco, HPE Juniper Networking, and HPE Aruba Networking

• Valid passport and ability to travel internationally as needed

Nice to haves

• Data-center design & build at scale (multi-site buildouts, carrier/circuit delivery, capacity planning)

• Data-center fabric design: Cisco ACI, HPE Juniper Apstra

• Deep firewall design & operations (multi-site policy, HA clusters, PAN-OS/Panorama at scale)

• Building AI agents / developer tooling that reduce operational load (agentic triage, runbook automation)

• Defensive security systems against internal and external threats; IDS/IPS, security monitoring; security testing (performance- and threat-based); offensive/defensive concepts

• Deeper public / private / hybrid cloud experience; owning IaC pipelines end-to-end