Description
Network Engineer - Cisco, Linux
The biggest multiplayer games in the world use our client to create the most competitive and engaging online experience possible. They are looking for people to help raise the bar, add to their culture, bring positivity, enthusiasm and pride. We need a Network Reliability Engineer to help design the next phase of their global infrastructure.
You will collaborate with the R&D, product engineering, network software engineering and data centre operations to develop and deploy scalable, fault-tolerant network topologies.
They are committed to continuous improvement and innovation, so the successful candidate will be encouraged to get creative and solve complex problems related to traffic engineering, orchestration, instrumentation, automation and telemetry.
Requirements:
- A good understanding of Linux with the ability to code
- Understanding OEM's like Juniper, Cisco and Arista.
- From a protocol perspective: BGP and MPLS. Ideally, with Enterprise experience
- Be a key member of the team that is responsible for the overall design and architecture of the backbone network, datacentre and POPs
- Define our internal and external routing policies & traffic engineering
- Conduct network performance tuning and execute complex network-related projects and deployments
- Propose and collaboratively define network and Back End software requirements
- Join a culture with innovation at its core this is essential to our competitive growth and overall success
- Deliver solutions in a complex environment while collaborating seamlessly with our innovative teams
- Thrive and contribute to our continuous improvement when it comes to Lean-Agile principles and methodology
- Cumulus would be advantageous.
What you bring to the table:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience
- 8+ years of deep technical knowledge gained deploying and managing WANs
- Strong Linux networking and routing fundamentals
- Experience with configuring, operating and troubleshooting protocols like: OSPF, MPLS, BGP, BFD
- Experience with common protocols and concepts like: TCP/IP, UDP, DNS, DHCP, IPv6, Anycast routing
- Hands-on experience with global Internet routing, peering/transit relationships, traffic engineering, and troubleshooting
- Experience with flow records, packet captures, and collating information from various sources and tools
- Be strategic around planning, documenting, testing, and the production rollout of our new network features
- Be a self-starter who can work with minimal supervision