Network Engineer

Job Description:

We are seeking a skilled Network Engineer to join our global team and help
design, implement, and maintain our private and public cloud infrastructure.
This role involves contributing to the maintenance and operation of network
components, with a focus on building smart, scalable, and easy to maintain
automated solutions.
The ideal candidate has experience working in a large-scale enterprise or
global cloud service provider network, with strong knowledge of networking
principles, and an understanding of networking in AWS, GCP and Azure. They
should also be comfortable working in a Linux environment, and proficient at
network automation and using configuration management and automation
tools such as Git and Ansible. They will possess a good awareness of the
network and communications ecosystem and of emerging technologies.

Key Responsibilities:
 Deploy, configure, maintain, troubleshoot and optimize network
infrastructure.
 Collaborate with senior engineers, architecture and engineering teams to
implement network requirements and support organisational objectives.
 Collaborate with external vendors and partners to maintain and continue
to improve the network.
 Contribute to network automation initiatives through the implementation
of scalable and intelligent automation solutions.
 Participate in an on-call rotation to ensure the stability and availability of our
critical infrastructure.

Required Skills & Experience:
 3+ years of experience in a network engineering role, ideally within a large-
scale enterprise or cloud service provider network.
 Strong knowledge of and working experience with network routing,
switching, and firewalling.
 Experience with modern data center network topologies such as spine-and-
leaf and overlay networks.
 Solid understanding of networking principles and concepts, including
working knowledge of common protocols such as Ethernet, IP (v4 and v6),
TCP, UDP, DNS, IPsec, BGP, VXLAN, EVPN, and HTTPS.
 Good proficiency in network security, and experience working with NGFW
firewalls.
 Good understanding of public cloud environments (Direct Connect, transit
gateway, VPCs, gateway etc.).
 Strong Grafana proficiency: building and maintaining custom metric
exporters and integrating externally provided exporters; designing
dashboards; and managing alerting configuration as code, deployed via
Terraform.
 Experience with VPN technologies.
 Network virtualisation such as VRFs and VXLAN.
 Ability to perform analysis of network performance and application issues
using standard diagnostics tools.
 Work remotely while collaborating closely with onsite engineers to support
network installations, troubleshooting, and maintenance as needed.
Desirable Skills (Nice to Have):
 Experience using and integrating DCIM & IPAM applications, such as
Device42, Infoblox etc with automation frameworks.
 Knowledge of DC networking technologies such as MLAG, Stacking.
 Experience with cloud providers such as Google Cloud and Azure.
 CCNA, CCNP, JNCIP-DC, Arista ACE:L3, or similar certification.
 Proficient working with Linux operating systems.
 Skilled in scripting (Python or Shell) and familiar with CI/CD practices.
 Understand concepts of Infrastructure-as-Code/Software.