Network Engineer

Job Description

Pay Range: $53hr - $58hr

• 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 (client/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.

• 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 Infini Band/Connect
  
  X‑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.
• Dependable and flexible when necessary.