Systems Development Engineer, Networking

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or IT-related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience working in production distributed environments.
• Experience in TCP/IP and networking concepts (e.g., PXE boot, Subnets, VLANs, Jumbo Frames, LACP, NIC Teaming, Unicast/Broadcast/Multicast, ACLs, DNS, DHCP, SSH, etc.).
• Experience with Load Balancers (F5, HAProxy, Apache, etc.), Cisco Nexus 7000/6000/5000/2000 platforms, vPC, FEX, FabricPath, ISSU, dual stack IPv4/IPv6 deployments, and VLAN, STP, LACP, HSRP/VRRP, OSPF, BGP.
• Candidates must be able to obtain and maintain a Level 2 security clearance (SÜ2) under the German Classification Act (SÜG).

Nice to haves

• Experience in SRE or IT production systems engineering.
• Understanding of Linux, Kubernetes and Storage.
• Excellent relationship-building skills, with the ability to empathize with customers and understand their needs.
• Excellent communication, people management, and presentation skills.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Ability to travel internationally up to 25% of the time.

What you'll be doing

• Define clear objectives, processes, and metrics for internal reference GDCH deployments.
• Collect, document, and analyze feedback and communicate findings effectively to development teams.
• Interact with internal development organizations in order to accomplish shared goals successfully.
• Participate in Customer, Partner, and Internal team deployments and training as needed which will require international travel.
• Participate in the 24x7 on-call rotation to support escalations from client deployments as well as internal reference deployments.

Perks and benefits

• GDCH is a turnkey private cloud offering.
• Advocate the use of Google's networking capabilities within internal reference GDCH deployments.
• Build deep expertise in deploying and operating Google Distributed Cloud Hosted (GDCH) solutions.