The Role
In order to ensure success as a senior network engineer, you should demonstrate specialized engineering knowledge and experience working with a content delivery network (CDN), hosting environment, or other critical internet infrastructure. A senior network engineer will be someone whose engineering expertise translates into streamlined and cost-effective processes.
Main Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain CacheFly's content delivery network
- Diagnose and resolve network issues
- Perform routine maintenance, including network hardware and software upgrades, and capacity augmentation
- Participate in an on-call rotation
- Attend at least one industry conference per year (e.g. NANOG, RIPE, etc)
- Collaborate with the broader engineering team to improve and streamline processes
What We Look for in a Candidate
- 7+ Years of experience as a network engineer
- Knowledge of Juniper switching (any of EX, PTX, QFX, etc)
- Ability to turn up BGP with transits and public/IX peers
- Understanding of OSI layers 1 through 3
- Experience configuring and troubleshooting ECMP and LACP
- Management of data center cross connects
- History of working with remote hands
- Linux experience
- And at least two of the following:
- Ansible
- BGP Anycast
- BGP communities and traffic engineering
- Kentik or netflow/sflow
- Linux scripting
- Zero touch provisioning
- Skills: Personal accountability, professional communication and demonstrated time management skills.
- Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills. Must have the ability to build relationships over the phone or via Slack. Must have a proactive communication style ensuring timely status of projects to account team and customer.
- Technical Skills: Advanced understanding of information technology, communications, or security concepts and general knowledge of technical terminology or industry concepts related to CacheFly solutions is required. Must possess a willingness and appetite to learn new concepts and subjects and have the initiative to invest in ongoing professional development through self-study. Must have a working knowledge of CacheFly service portfolio, processes, and systems.
- Problem Solving: Advanced analytical skills. Must be able to work through complex issues with a methodical approach. Will be expected to graphically depict CacheFly services and customer solutions in a clear and compelling manner.
- Work Style: Ability to work independently and as part of a team. Ability to work under pressure with tight deadlines.
- Must be able to work on multiple projects simultaneously and be able to reprioritize as needed or as directed to respond to changing business requirements. Must be detail oriented.
- Ability to travel as needed (Approx. 10%)
Products and software we use:
- Juniper Networks
- Kentik
- Observium
- Cradlepoint (for out of band)
- Pagerduty
- Gmail and Google Docs
- Slack
- Zoom
- Notion
- Basecamp