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I think the first step is become a "network engineer". If you wouldn't consider yourself that already then there's your first step that should keep you busy for a while. The rest should make sense once you've done that.
I assume it's a lot of stuff with BGP and other communication protocols for managing networks.
This is very fair. I have a home lab that I like to use to over engineer my home network with and run simulations on, I worked beneath a network engineer for a while as an intern, and studied for my CCNA for a while. So not a network engineer, but not completely inept either. As I said in another comment, I’m hoping to either learn enough to cobble together existing tech or learn enough to explain to myself why this is a bad idea. Either is fine.
That's super cool!