Network Engineer

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

Deploy and operate the front side, backend, and management networks within our on-prem datacenters

Perform site visits to oversee new network buildouts performed by operations team

Optimize end user experience by architecting the network to lower latency, packet loss, and jitter while increasing scale

Deploy and supports new software releases, system upgrades, and patches for the network infrastructure environment

Maintain knowledge of vendor products (AMD/Pensando, Cisco, Palo Alto, Arista) and solutions that can enable the diagnosis of complex issues, build redundancy and resiliency along with planning for the future capacity and technology growth of the network

Develop and maintain networking inventory documentation including network diagrams, cabling schedules, and DCIM

Perform troubleshooting and problem-solving efforts often involving outside vendors and other support personnel and/or organizations

Ensure the network architecture addresses high availability and performance of mission critical platforms and network resources

Monitor the network status of global sites for potential issues or learnings

Train and enable on-site L1 support teams

Occasionally perform on-call incident response as L2

Qualifications and Attributes:

At least 6 years of experience maintaining enterprise and/or cloud network infrastructure – routers, switches, NICs

Knowledge and experience of hosting technologies including Hyper-converged infrastructure, Converged Infrastructure, Xen virtualization

Knowledge and experience with supporting infrastructure service technologies including DNS, DHCP, BOOTP, PXE, TFTP, NTP, PAM

Experience with developing python/ansible scripts to automate infrastructure deployment and metrics collection

Intermediate Linux skills

Experience with various tools such as MAAS or Infoblox

Direct experience with Cisco and Arista products

Arista ACE-Level 3 certification or higher required

Cisco CCNP Certification – Preferred

Experience with Cisco Nexus and Nexus Manager

Experience with VXLAN/EVPN overlays, BGP routing, and leaf-spine as well as traditional data center architectures across multiple data center environments

Knowledge of RDMA network tuning

Experience with non-Ethernet based technologies (such as InfiniBand/ConnectX-5/6) is also a plus

Experience documenting network knowledge base and operational runbooks

Knowledge of application transport and network infrastructure protocols

Ability to create accurate network diagrams and documentation for design and planning network communication systems

Ability to explain complex network concepts to application engineers and leadership

Ability to create simplified network diagrams for presentations

Provides specific detailed information for hardware and software selection

Ability to quickly learn new or unfamiliar technology and products using documentation and internet resources

Ability to think through problems and visualize solutions

Team player with the ability to work with all levels of staff within/outside of R&D and outside the organization

A self-starter able to work independently but comfortable working in a team environment

Good analytical and problem-solving skills