Senior Network Engineer - Federal (Weekends)

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“This position requires passing a ServiceNow background screening, USFedPASS (US Federal Personnel Authorization Screening Standards). This includes a credit check, criminal/misdemeanor check and taking a drug test. Any employment is contingent upon passing the screening.  Due to Federal requirements, only US citizens, US naturalized citizens or US Permanent Residents, holding a green card, will be considered.

What you get to do in this role:

As a Federal Cloud Networking Engineer you will help deliver 24x7 support for our Government Cloud infrastructure. 
This is a Weekend position from Thursday to Monday. The working hours are from 7:00 am - 4:00 pm Pacific Time.

What you get to do in this role:

• Design and deploy networks based on business and technical requirements.
• Partner with project and program managers to meet overall timelines and resolution of issues.
• Operate and troubleshoot networks to identify and resolve issues quickly.
• Take a lead role in the engagement and mitigation of outage-causing events or issues.
• Validate problem descriptions and perform detailed problem diagnosis; track and update problems in the trouble-ticketing system.
• Perform non-critical investigations into functionality that is not working as desired.
• Engage deeply in the sustainment function to proactively analyze network parameters such as capacity and availability to ensure issues are fixed before they cause an outage.
• Review, consult and prepare for planned change introduction to production environment.
• Participate in rotating “on call” schedule with other members of the team including weekends.
• Partner with teams to plan and execute software code upgrades and device maintenance.
• Partner with the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team to provide mentorship and input on operational process improvements.
• Provide feedback to infrastructure architects on design issues or improvements and input into the design process for new initiatives.

Sample first 6-month deliverables

• Quickly integrate into the environment and gain a solid understanding of network architecture, organization, and process/procedures.
• Deploy capacity into a datacenter based on demand.
• Participate in incident bridges and serve as the networking engineering resource to troubleshoot and mitigate outages.
• Take ownership of a minimum of two datacenters perform all sustainment engineering functions.
• Partner with the SRE team to identify and solve one network process issue.

To be successful in this role you have:

• The candidate should have a solid foundation in networking including routing, switching, security and load balancing. 
• 4+ years of experience with cloud computing technologies (e.g. Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, etc.) across Windows and/or Linux
• Azure Core Platform: Compute, Storage, Networking.
• Azure Web Apps: developing, deploying, debugging and supporting web applications using .NET, Java, PHP, Python, Node.js etc. on Windows or Linux.
• Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): using DevOps, Bit Bucket, GitHub.
• Experience in one or more automation languages (PowerShell, shell scripts, Perl, Python, Ansible, Terraform) desired.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in working on Internet and data center networks.
• Possess a solid understanding of and have experience with most of the following network technologies: BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, HSRP/VRRP, IPSEC, SNMP.
• Deep, hands-on experience with TCP/IP protocols including capturing and analyzing traffic with Wireshark and/or other tools.
• Familiarity with Cisco IOS and JunOS operating systems required.
• F5 and Cisco ASA knowledge and experience strongly desired.
• Experience with network monitoring applications such as EMC Watch4Net, Cacti, Splunk is a plus.
• Ability to partner with peers who are globally distributed is a key part of this role.
• Passion for customer experiences and focus on delivering high quality support.
• Strong communication skills and empathy for customers.
• Ability to learn new technology in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity.

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