Description:
We are currently partnered with a leading global technology company looking to expand their team with a Network Engineer to take on responsibility for designing, building, and optimizing a vast network infrastructure.
This is a permanent working opportunity based onsite in either Dublin or London.
Key Responsibilities for the Network Engineer position:
- Design, build, and optimize a global network, including backbone, data centers, public cloud, and Edge/CDN.
- Collaborate with teams across compute, storage, and database systems to enhance network infrastructure.
- Work with external vendors and ISPs for device and carrier selection, testing, and verification.
- Participate in the global on-call rotation and provide network support.
- Travel may be required up to 15% - 30% of the time.
Key Requirements:
- Strong understanding of network protocols like TCP/IP, DHCP, BGP, OSPF/IS-IS, and MPLS.
- Familiarity with network monitoring tools such as SNMP, Sflow/netflow, and Telemetry.
- Experience with data center network architecture (e.g., CLOS).
- Hands-on experience with network devices from major vendors.
- In-depth knowledge of hyperscale data center networks and MPLS Traffic Engineering technologies.
- Familiarity with public cloud architecture and commercial switch/router chipsets.
- Understanding of IPv6 and IPv4-IPv6 co-existence technologies.
- Programming/scripting experience in Python or other languages.