Network Simulation Engineer - Expert (m/f/d)

Role Responsibilities

• Design realistic tasks involving routing, switching, network services, segmentation, access policies, redundancy, or performance.
• Build reproducible network topologies and device configurations using tools such as containerlab, GNS3, EVE-NG, Mininet, ns-3, or FRRouting.
• Configure and debug scenarios involving technologies like BGP, OSPF, VLANs, IPv4/IPv6, DNS, DHCP, NAT, VPNs, or firewalls.
• Develop automated checks for reachability, route selection, policy enforcement, isolation, convergence, failover, latency, throughput, and packet loss.
• Produce reference configurations, traffic or failure scenarios, and verification scripts; validate both successful and deliberately incorrect cases.
• Review AI-generated configurations and diagnose failures.
• Use coding agents to support automation while independently validating network behavior.

Qualifications Must-Have

• 5+ years of professional network engineering experience with enterprise, data-center, cloud, or service-provider networks.
• Strong hands-on routing, switching, troubleshooting, and network-policy skills.
• Experience building network labs, simulations, or emulations and analyzing traffic with tools such as Wireshark, tcpdump, or iperf.
• Ability to write and debug Python, shell, Ansible, or comparable automation.
• Sound judgment about protocol behavior, failure modes, and measurement limitations. Preferred
• Relevant certifications such as CCNP, CCIE, or JNCIP.
• Experience with network test automation.

Compensation & Legal

• Hourly contractor Paid weekly via Stripe Connect

Position: Network Engineering & Simulation Expert — Hephaestus Type: Contract Compensation: $70–$90/hour Location: Remote

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