Senior Network Platform Engineer

About The National Hockey League Founded in 1917, the National Hockey League (NHL®) is the premier professional ice hockey league in the world and is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada.

With more than 1500 employees across the US and Canada, the NHL is a global sports and entertainment organization committed to building healthy and vibrant communities using the sport of hockey. At the NHL, we are looking for dynamic, energetic and impactful individuals who are committed to doing the same by sharing in our philosophy that Hockey is for Everyone.

Summary WHAT WE EXPECT OF YOU You operate across Architecture and Engineering, with a deliberate feedback loop to operations partners. Their insights drive your design changes. You ship them. They validate.

We treat network capabilities as products serving internal customers, production, studio, broadcast, and corporate stakeholders. The platforms you build support live games and global media workflows where reliability is broadcast-grade: deterministic, low-latency, zero-tolerance during production windows.

Hybrid environment: AWS, on-prem DC, broadcast venues, studios, edge. You own the network end-to-end across Layer 1–4, physical connectivity through transport, not just the cloud and policy layers. Network security is woven into everything you build, segmentation, zero trust patterns, and policy-as-code are core to the platform, not bolted on. Automation-first, if you do it twice, you automate the third.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Surface architectural gaps from operational patterns; propose design changes backed by data
• Build Terraform modules and CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, Vault) for network and security policy
• Build self-service network capabilities consumed via IaC by other platform teams
• Treat your domain as a product, gather stakeholder feedback, shape the roadmap, measure outcomes
• Define and improve SLIs, SLOs, and stakeholder-facing SLAs for your domain
• Drive reliability for your domain, design for failure, partner with Network Reliability Engineers, and contribute as incidents, design changes, or events demand
• Own observability for your domain (Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, or equivalent)
• Apply AI/ML to network operations, anomaly detection, predictive capacity, intelligent remediation

Qualifications Knowledge Areas/Experience

Required

• Strong networking fundamentals across Layer 1–4, physical, switching (VLAN, LAG, STP), routing (BGP, OSPF), and transport (load balancing, flow behavior, latency/jitter)
• Network security platforms, Palo Alto NGFW and at least one of Prisma Access, Prisma Cloud, or Cortex; comfort designing segmentation and policy-as-code
• Hands-on Terraform (writing modules, not just consuming them)
• AWS networking at scale (Transit Gateway, VPC, hybrid connectivity)
• On-prem networking at scale, DC fabrics, broadcast venue and studio connectivity, hybrid integration
• Strong scripting skills (Python preferred)
• Not afraid to go into the weeds, packet captures, config diffs, fiber traces, whatever the problem needs
• Cross-functional partnership with Media Engineering, Production, Security, and Operations — translating creative and business needs into network capabilities
• Comfort operating in deadline-driven, broadcast-grade reliability environments

Preferred

• Live broadcast, sports, post-production, or VFX infrastructure experience
• Broadcast-grade networking, low-latency, deterministic, contribution/distribution
• AI/ML applied to network operations (observability, anomaly detection, predictive capacity)
• Reliability engineering background, SLO design, chaos engineering, or failure-mode analysis at scale
• NetDevOps tooling breadth, Ansible, Git, CI/CD pipelines, network APIs alongside Terraform
• SASE / zero trust deployment at scale
• Product thinking applied to infrastructure, treating platforms as services with customers

CORE COMPETENCIES These core competencies reflect the underlying values that are necessary to represent the National Hockey League:

• Accountability
• Adaptability
• Communication
• Critical Thinking
• Inclusion
• Professionalism
• Teamwork & Collaboration

The NHL offers U.S. regular, full-time employees: Time to Recharge Utilize our generous Paid Time Off (PTO) to focus on your well-being and ensure a healthy work/life balance. PTO includes paid holidays…