Network Engineer

• 12 months contract opportunity- with a high potential to go permanent
• Offering: $570/day including super
• Location: Sydney
• Work arrangements: Fully remote

Our client is a global SaaS leader- one of 25 companies on Fortune's World’s Best Workplaces and Forbes' America’s Best Companies. We are looking for a network operations person who can understand automation

About the role:

· Maintain and deploy modern computer 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 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.

· Partner with teams to plan and execute software code upgrades and device maintenance.

Requirements:

· 6+ years' experience in networking with a solid foundation in routing, switching, security and load balancing.

· 6+ years of firewall administration. Palo Alto, Cisco ASA, Fortigate

· 6+ years of load balancer administration. F5 BigIP, NGINX, NetScaler

· 4+ years of public cloud experience with a focus on networking. AWS, GCP or Azure

· A minimum of 5 years of experience in working on Internet and data center networks.

· RedHat/CentOS linux.

· Virtualization and container management. Kubernetes, OpenStack, linux KVM

· Possess a solid understanding of and have experience with most of the following network technologies: BGP, OSPF, HSRP/VRRP, IPSEC, SNMP, ECMP.

· 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.

· 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, efficient time management with competing priorities

Nice to have:

· Scripting and automation: bash/python is a plus.

· High performance computing. GPGPU, Infiniband, RoCEv2 is a plus

· Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): using DevOps, Bit Bucket, GitHub.

Please Note: Due to the nature of the role, Candidates Must be based in Sydney/Melbourne and must be Permanent Residents or Citizens to be considered for this role.

To apply, click the link and upload your current resume in Microsoft Word format only (.doc or .docx), or please send through a copy of your latest CV to [email protected] for a confidential discussion.