Network Engineer​/Rockdale, Austin

Network Engineer

Location:

Rockdale, Austin

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 Infini Band/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