Senior Network Engineer

A Day in the Life

As a member of the networking team, you are to assist in growing our data center locations and optimize our network performance. We are looking for a senior network engineer who can work independently to support other teams and troubleshoot any network issues. We like to use modern technology and aren’t afraid to break things or be able to work under pressure. We are continuously adapting and are looking to expand our global footprint.

The Impact You’ll Make

• Design, configure, deploy, monitor, and troubleshoot network routers, switches, and firewalls.
• Monitor network resource utilizations and ensure resources are utilized efficiently using tools such as Smokeping, ElasticSearch.
• Troubleshooting network connectivity issues between racks, between data centers and with external service providers.
• Automate network device configurations and audit network configuration changes.
• Manage connectivity with external service providers, such as ISP, GCP, AWS.
• Build and improve network monitoring and alerting.
• Participate in 24/7 on call rotation.
• Work with service providers to troubleshoot any connectivity issues.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 6-8 years of hands-on network engineering and support experiences.
• Linux sysadmin experience and skills: iptables, IP routing, etc.
• Experience with system configuration tools: Git, Ansible, Terraform
• Proficiency in working with JSON and YAML data structures.
• Proficiency in scripting/automation using Python, Ruby, and/or Bash
• Deep understanding of networking technology in: TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, VLAN, Spanning Tree, VXLAN, GRE, IPsec
• Experience with public cloud network design, connectivity, and management (AWS, Google)
• Proven hands-on networking skills across multiple vendors (Arista, Cisco, Juniper, Fortinet)
• Ability to manage large scale distributed networks independently, efficiently and effectively.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in network configuration management and automation: Ansible, Batfish, Robot testing framework.
• Experience troubleshooting networking in Linux (RHEL, CentOS or Ubuntu)
• Experience in working with IPv6: addressing, routing.
• Software developing: design, develop, debug, testing, build and push

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