Senior Network Developer

Responsibilities

• Participate in Network lifecycle management through network build and/or upgrade projects.
• Collaborate with program/project managers to develop milestones and deliverables.
• Will primarily use existing procedures and tools to develop and safely execute network change. However, may have to develop new procedures from time to time.
• Serve as technical lead for team projects.
• Contributes to the development of roadmap issues.
• Led development of new runbooks and method of procedures.
• Mentors junior engineers.
• Participate in network solution and architecture design process.
• Responsibility for developing standalone features.
• Participate in operational rotations as either primary or secondary.
• Provide break-fix support for events.
• Serve as escalation point for event remediation.
• Lead post-event root cause analysis.
• Coordinate with networking automation services for the development and integration of support tooling.
• Frequently develops scripts to automate routine tasks for team and business unit.
• Serves as SME on software development projects for network automation.
• Supports network vendor software bug fixes.
• Collaborate with network vendor technical account team and internal Quality Assurance team to drive bug resolution and assist in the qualification of new firmware and/or operating systems.

Qualifications

• Experience working in a large ISP or cloud provider environment.
• Exposure to commodity Ethernet hardware (Broadcom/Mellanox), protocol experience with BGP/OSPF/IS-IS, TCP, IPv4, IPv6, DNS, DHCP, MPLS.
• Experience with networking protocols such as TCP/IP, VPN, DNS, DHCP, and SSL.
• Experience with Internet peering and inter-domain networking.
• Experience with scripting or automation and datacenter design – Python preferred, but must demonstrate knowledge in a scripting or compiled language.
• Experience with automation systems, framework design/use and deployment.
• Experience with network modeling and programing – YANG, OpenConfig, NETCONF.
• Knowledge of network security design, system performance characterization and testing.
• Knowledge of data flow and telemetry design, deployment and operation.
• Excellent judgment in influence for product roadmap direction, features, and priorities.
• Excellent organizational, verbal, and written communication skills.