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Job Description
Network Development Engineer
Build and operate the network infrastructure of the world's largest cloud computing infrastructure, learning the tools, services, and components that make it possible.
Collaborate with the best networking engineers in the world to develop, build, and operate networks at the largest scale, promoting innovation and ownership.
Join a unique team dedicated to history-making programmes, with a near-endless opportunity to explore and grow in one of the largest and most successful tech companies.
About the Job
- Lead network projects in network sustaining engineering, deployment/implementation, scaling, technology refresh, best practices application, and/or network optimization.
- Influence operations function, responding to customer impact events and requests, troubleshooting, and fixing and improving automation.
- Analyse the network using tools and metrics to ensure it is operating correctly, safely, and securely.
- Investigate technical issues scientifically and thoroughly, and assist in fixing complex problems.
- Plan, deliver, and simplify new systems, processes, and tools to better deliver for customers.
- Deliver sustainable and repeatable solutions and processes, optimising and removing bottlenecks.
About the Team
- Collaborate with and learn from the best networking engineers in the world.
- Develop, build, and operate networks at the very largest scale.
- Be part of a unique team dedicated to history-making programmes.
- Start a career path in one of the largest and most successful tech companies.
Requirements
- A relevant degree in a related technical discipline or equivalent experience in a large-scale network environment.
- Experience in a network focused hands-on technical role working with routing protocols/technologies and platforms in large scale data centre and/or Wide Area Networking (WAN) environments.
- Experience developing engineering, deployment, or operations mechanisms to support IP networking systems.
- Experience in a technical on-call capacity, responding to customer impacting events, mitigating and root cause analysis of those events.
- Knowledge & experience of interacting with many network devices at a time through any of networking configuration tools, Infrastructure as Code or scripting.
Preferred Qualifications
- Thorough understanding of TCP/IP networking, routing, and Network Security architecture and core technologies such as IP, TCP, OSPF, BGP, MPLS, load balancers, firewalls, ACLs, DNS, DHCP, IP address management.
- Knowledge & experience of Linux or other Unix operating systems.
- Understands different networking hardware and packet forwarding architectures.
- Proficiency in scripting/programming with one or more of Python (preferred), Perl, Ruby, Shell, Java, etc.