Location: Ashburn, VA (In Office, must be able to work full time at location)
Address: 20149
Duration: 6-12 Month Contract to Hire
Job Summary:
As a Senior Network Engineer, you’ll play a pivotal role as a technical leader and exemplar within our team. We seek an individual who crafts and implements technology solutions aligned with business and technical goals, stays abreast of cutting-edge networking research, fosters collaboration across teams, and adeptly balances competing priorities. In addition to leadership acumen, a successful Senior Network Engineer should demonstrate sufficient proficiency in both networking and software engineering.
This role, due to the business needs of the team, requires employees to be physically present in the specified office on a full-time basis. This helps to ensure you are best equipped to be successful and have the experience you need to fulfill the responsibilities of the role.
Suggested Skills:
- Network Protocols
- Kubernetes
- Network Design
- Network Engineering
Basic Qualifications:
- BA/BS Degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of proven hands-on industry experience in network and data center engineering in hyperscaler environment.
- Understanding of network protocols such as TCP/IP, BGP, MPLS, RDMA, network overlay technologies, and network-based Quality of Service (QoS).
- Experience in programming languages like Python, Go, or other scripting languages.
- Knowledge in Kubernetes, host networking, host TCP tuning.
- Experience in network congestion control solutions such as QoS, DCTCP/ECN, and eBPF.
- Experience with network management, configuration generation and provisioning systems and tools. Ansible, REST/gRPC, NETCONF, Jenkins, Puppet, YANG, OpenConfig, etc.
- Experience in hardware and software testing using IXIA or other testing platforms.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master’s Degree in a technical discipline
- 7+ years of professional experience
- Experience in SONiC
- Experience in evaluating and deploying new HW platforms and SWs to solve DC growth and operational challenges.
- Experience in designing and deploying network infrastructure for HPC workloads.
Responsibilities:
- Review architectures, network designs, automated network provisioning and tools, and provide recommendations for continuous improvements in all aspects of the network, including network performance, capacity, reliability, and observability.
- Design, deploy, and operate a large-scale network for data center infrastructure and backbone across multiple geographical regions. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align implementation with business objectives.
- Perform network maintenance and upgrades.
- Identify gaps and develop solutions to automate deployments and auto-remediate network faults.
- Network security and compliance.
- Participate in on-call rotation, resolve network outages, conduct post-mortem and remediation plans.
- Evaluate new platforms to address scaling challenges and drive requirements with OEMs/ODMs to support our technology stack.