Network Engineer I

Expedia Expedia · Hospitality · Prague, Czech Republic

Network Engineer I role focused on supporting the design, deployment, and operation of enterprise and data center networks. Responsibilities include day-to-day operations, implementing network changes, performing upgrades and patching, monitoring, troubleshooting connectivity, and maintaining documentation. Requires experience in network engineering, basic routing/switching skills, and familiarity with scripting languages. Cloud infrastructure exposure and certifications are beneficial.

What you'd actually do

  1. Support the day‑to‑day operation of our enterprise and data center networks following established runbooks.
  2. Assist with implementing and validating network changes and new designs in production.
  3. Perform periodic LODO tasks such as software upgrades, resource patching, failover testing and network health audits.
  4. Monitoring intake channels and responding or escalated as required.
  5. Troubleshoot connectivity issues, gathering data and escalating when needed.

Skills

Required

  • Professional experience in network engineering, infrastructure or a related technical role
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field
  • Certifications such as Arista ACE Level 1, Cisco CCNA, AWS foundational or other networking/cloud certs
  • Experience contributing to a network implementation or deployment into production (project, internship or role)
  • Exposure to public or hybrid cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, Azure or GCP)
  • Ability to configure enterprise‑grade network hardware with guidance
  • Basic skills in routing and switching (e.g., OSPF, BGP, VLANs, subnets, ACLs, NAT)
  • Basic skills in wireless network RF planning and tuning
  • Understanding of physical vs. virtual networking and how they interoperate
  • Familiarity with at least one scripting/programming language (e.g., Python, Go, PowerShell)
  • Comfortable following standard processes and procedures and collaborating with others to resolve issues

Nice to have

  • Technical degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT or similar
  • Experience with cloud networking (VPCs, security groups, gateways, load balancers)
  • Exposure to network observability tools and applications (e.g., NetFlow/IPFIX, SNMP, Datadog, Logic Monitor, Catchpoint)
  • Exposure to network automation tools (e.g., APIs, Terraform, Ansible)
  • Demonstrated interest in emerging networking and cloud trends and growing your expertise over time