Network Production Engineer - Backbone

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4+ years experience coding in higher-level languages (e.g., Python, C++, Go, etc.)
• 5+ years experience in one or more of BGP, MPLS, ISIS or similar routing protocols - knowledge in typical configurations and performance tuning

Nice to Haves

• 5+ years experience understanding and mitigating network hardware and topology failures
• Expert knowledge of TCP/IP and IPv6
• Experience operating and designing SDN-based backbone networks
• Experience working in a multi-vendor network environment
• Experience with developing distributed systems and operating them at scale
• Experience with automation frameworks and tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef
• Experience in configuration and maintenance of network devices and NMS systems, or applications such as web servers, load balancers, relational databases, storage systems and messaging systems
• Experience learning software, frameworks and APIs
• Experience developing and understanding network device configuration for at least one vendor (Juniper, Cisco, Arista, Brocade, etc.)
• Knowledge in routing and switching - hardware design and knowledge of forwarding and data planes

What You'll Be Doing

• Write and review code, develop documentation and capacity plans, and debug the hardest problems, live, on some of the largest and most complex networks and systems in the world
• Participate in a weekly on-call rotation and be an escalation contact for service incidents
• Perform deep dives on complex technical issues across networks, ranging from automated tooling to hardware failures and network issues
• Manage and maintain multi-vendor, multi-protocol backbone and edge networks
• Analyze data to diagnose and identify root causes to network issues
• Define, develop, and optimize automated network monitoring systems to mitigate and remediate network events
• Proactively find gaps that impact multiple teams, come up with the execution plan, and drive the project directly and through influence of other teams
• Contribute to team growth and development through peer mentorship

Perks and Benefits

• Not specified