DNS Engineer - Infoblox

About the role

We are looking for a DDI Engineer to join a team responsible for building, managing and maintaining the Infoblox platform, along with other network management systems on which our mission-critical services depend. We prize professionals who are equipped with great technical skills and a self-starting attitude. We seek individuals with a sense of purpose and for whom detail and craftsmanship are of their essence; individuals that are curious, demonstrate initiative, and love solving problems. Our platform uses a mix of commercial and Open Source off-the-shelf software to deliver a DDI infrastructure platform, integrating with multiple platforms and services across Verisign. We follow a mostly Kanban workflow, adhere to GitOps principles as much as possible and value fast iteration, secure-by-default solutions and customer-oriented mindset. This position is based in our Reston, VA office and offers a hybrid work environment.

Responsibilities

• Build, operate, and maintain our Infoblox platform supporting our DDI initiative at Verisign
• Implement and support monitoring pipelines for DDI platform health to support platform observability and availability
• Automate DDI workflows for provisioning, cleanup and compliance enforcement
• Troubleshoot complex DNS/DHCP/IPAM incidents, participate in root cause analysis, and implement permanent fixes
• Create and maintain documentation and runbooks for our first-line support teams
• Ensure compliance with vulnerability management standards and information security standards
• Participate in a 24x7 on call rotation for tier 3 support

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• 5+ years of relevant industry experience
• Written and verbal communication skills – ability to clearly and succinctly describe complex issues
• Experience deploying and operating a DDI platform from industry leading vendors in a production environment
• Experience integrating multiple services with a DDI platform in an enterprise architecture
• Strong understanding of DNS protocols, DHCP lease management and IPAM (IPv4 and IPv6) hierarchy
• Understanding of CMDB and ITIL concepts
• Understanding of network protocols and security
• Ability to write scripts in either Python or Go that can interact with multiple platforms in an enterprise architecture

Skills

• Experience running an Infoblox platform in a production environment and integrating both custom and built-in services within an enterprise architecture
• Experience maintaining highly available services in both an on-prem and cloud-based production environment
• ServiceNow integration experience (API, workflows etc)
• Understanding and able to use with development tools such as Github, Jira
• Understanding of BGP and anycast
• Exposure to Netbox
• Exposure to Kubernetes
• Familiarity with one more public and/or private cloud computing platforms
• Familiarity with Network Discovery
• Familiarity with ISC BIND and DHCP/kea
• Know how to create and manage automation pipelines with tools such as Jenkins
• Know how to manage capacity of public routable address space

Pay

The pay range is $108,900 - $147,300. The anticipated annual base salary range for this position is noted above, however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience. Verisign offers a discretionary bonus which is based on individual and company performance, and certain roles may be eligible for discretionary stock awards.