Senior Network Reliability Engineer

ROLE DESCRIPTION SUMMARY

As a leading contributor, you will be at the forefront of shaping DevNetOps practices aimed at enhancing network infrastructure and service delivery through an evolving Network Reliability Engineering discipline. You will be part of a team responsible for design, requirements analysis, architecture, development, evaluation, prototype demonstration, production implementation, and technical documentation within this area of Network Engineering. The position maintains a balanced set of skills in networks and systems, with focus on automation and programmability. As a core tenant, you will contribute to network automation and orchestration strategies that will support network architecture, service provisioning, infrastructure deployment, and operations.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES / KEY RESULT AREAS

• Participate in the design, implementation, and support of network automation and orchestration solutions. Deploy and maintain the software and applications required for those solutions across the SESOne network infrastructure and its services.
• Analyze day-to-day tasks performed by Network Engineering teams and demonstrate how they can be improved by automation and/or programmability with emphasis on facilitating faster, more reliable deployment of infrastructure and delivery of services.
• Treat the network as code and adopt a culture of continuous integration, continuous deployment, and continuous response with extensive, well-defined pipelines.
• Practice “management-by-metrics” where analytics and deep-learning through rigorous data collection are imperative; define metrics (KPI’s) and implement subsequent Service Level Agreements (SLA’s) for measuring network reliability.
• Represent the department always, as a technical SME; build a feedback loop between various cross-functional teams within Network Engineering to identify, quantify, and address network risks. Work closely with Finance, Engineering, and other departments to ensure the profitability of all project design.
• Provide proactive leadership to mentor and coach guidance to all team members.

COMPETENCIES

• Excellent verbal, written, analytical and communication skills
• Ability to analyze complex situations, utilize creative problem-solving abilities, and efficiently interact with peers.
• Ability to multitask.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

1. Must Have

• A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or similar discipline with at least 5 years of network and/or systems experience (or an equivalent amount of education and work experience).
• Subject matter expertise in IP Network Administration or Systems Administration, with a secondary discipline of either IP Network Administration, Systems Administration, or Application Deployment.
• Intermediate level understanding of software implementation and/or application deployment methodologies, practices, concepts, and solutions.
• Intermediate level understanding and/or implementation of network architectures, best practices, and protocols such as IPv4, IPv6, IS-IS, OSPF, MP-BGP, LDP, RSVP-TE, HSRP, VRRP, and STP.
• Experience with reading and manipulating modeling, data serialization, and encoding formats such as YANG, YAML, JSON, and XML, respectively, with an understanding of underlying structures and their performance.
• Experience in reading, dissecting, and consuming Application Programming Interfaces (API’s) in a RESTful architecture.
• Experience with high-level programming and/or scripting in Python, Go, and/or Shell, respectively, with emphasis on using network and/or data communication libraries to accomplish network automation and programmability tasks.
• Experience with IT automation tools such as Ansible.
• Experience working with IP network performance technologies and solutions to deliver Service Level Agreements (SLA’s) and optimize network infrastructures.

2. Nice to Have

• Professional level network certifications such as the CCNP or JNCIP.
• Professional level Linux certifications such as the LFCS.
• Experience with Cisco Network Service Orchestrator (NSO).
• Experience with using virtualization and/or containers to scale compute, network, and application resources.
• Strong knowledge of software implementation and/or application deployment methodologies, practices, concepts, and solutions.