Role: Sr Network Engineer with DevOps-100% Remote
Location: Remote
Duration: 12 Months
Visa : Need only USC, GC & EAD’S
Primary Skills : DevOps, Site, WAN, LAN, Data Center, AWS, Python
Experience : Need Minimum 10-12
The Sr Engineer, Network DevOps / Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is the subject matter expert in designing
and implementing the strategy and platforms for the next-gen operations for all Client networks
including the Property Networks, Datacenter/Cloud Networks, and Corporate Networks. This role will work closely and
collaboratively with a matrix team of expert network architects and engineers to drive adoption of DevOps/SRE practices
and operating models across all network product towers, and around globe. The Architect, Network DevOps/SRE brings
a strong perspective that inspires change and motivates engineers to develop simple solutions to complex problems,
driving the engineering and operations for network software development, automation, provisioning, performance
management and tools / API’s for self-service across the globe. This role is accountable for establishing technical
level relationships and partnering with all business disciplines, other MI teams, outsourcing vendors, and external
suppliers to define and implement the Network DevOps / SRE roadmap, building and enforcing the standards defined in
it. This position will also serve as lead to define and support service delivery and operational support standards for our
Next Generation Operations, partnering with the global technology peer teams to meet service level requirements and
resolve service delivery issues across the portfolio. Reporting to the Director of Global Network DevOps/SRE, this key
position is accountable to ensure overall requirements by customers and peer delivery and operations groups are met.
Accountabilities include, but are not limited to: continental IT executives, property LAN service providers (LSPs), end-user
computing services delivery, hosting services, enterprise availability, server, storage, virtualization, inclusive of security/
privacy, risk management, and disaster and crisis management. The successful candidate will provide Architecture
leadership for all phases of the infrastructure lifecycle from ideation through execution, and ongoing management and
support, with specific attention to identifying opportunities for proactive and reactive (self-healing) automation solutions
across the network. (S)/He will develop and execute new initiatives to simplify, standardize, optimize, and automate the
network designs, tooling, and operations to reduce implementation cycle times, eliminate service downtime, optimize
performance, and ensure that all security and compliance requirements are fully governed
CANDIDATE PROFILE
Minimum Qualifications Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field experience/certification
- 6+ years’ experience as a Network Engineer with 5 or greater years in a hands-on role that implements engineering standards, documenting engineering designs, and participating in project cutovers.
- Strong Hands on Knowledge in modern in modern configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, Fabric, etc.)
- Strong Hands on Knowledge in PERL or Python to support developing scripts
- Experience in tools like CA NetOps, Infoblox DDI, NetMRI, NetScout, Netbrain, Appneta, SolarWinds, Ansible.
- Experience in CI/CD implementation.
5 years’ experience in an IT infrastructure role that include:
- Implementation of WAN, LAN, and datacenter networks with a focus on mission-critical, customer-facing applications and services
- Technical knowledge in networking (Cisco and non-Cisco) with an emphasis on software-defined networks (SDN) and leveraging spine & leaf designs, load balancing, firewalls, security design (intrusion detection and prevention), DNS, NTP, Network Tools & Management
- Technical knowledge common routing protocols (e.g., OSPF, BGP), IPv6, VPN, etc. across a global distributed network hands-on experience with the datacenter fabric platforms (Cisco, Arista, or equivalent) hands-on experience with common routing and switching platforms (Cisco, Juniper, HP/Aruba etc.)
- Deep experience in WAN and campus LAN design and implementation, preferably with a focus on hotel property networks
- Experience with automating network functions through tools such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, or Terraform
- Experience with writing Python applications to support network automation
- Understanding of legacy networking routing protocols and the interaction with cloud interconnects
- Experience with network load balancers, WAN optimizers, and Network virtualization.
- Technical knowledge and experience with telco and ISP networks, ensuring diversity and managing availability
- Demonstrated experience in delivering written documents detailing network solutions and diagrams
- 3+ years’ experience with high availability planning, component redundancy design and implementation
- 2+ years’ experience in designing large-scale enterprise network interconnectivity with cloud providers using standard best practices
- Ability to work non-standard hours during change implementations
Preferred Qualifications
- Certification in network and/or security technologies (e.g., CCIE, CCNP, CISSP, etc.)
- Experience managing large, globally distributed network architecture, engineering, and/or operations teams and leveraging next-generation network designs and technologies to support large-scale deployments
- Proven track record of driving transformation in network technologies, tools, and processes through a data-driven continuous improvement methodology
- Demonstrated experience in improving security, stability, reliability, performance, and agility of complex enterprise networks
- Strong technical knowledge of foundational networking technologies and solid understanding of the software-defined networking (SDN) ecosystem
- Strong understanding of network infrastructure automation, instrumentation, and monitoring platforms and the emerging technologies in this area
- Experience in setting up virtual private clouds in public cloud infrastructure such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Alibaba Cloud, or Google Cloud Platform
- Experience with designing and engineering connectivity to public cloud providers utilizing technologies such as AWS Direct Connect, Azure ExpressRoute, Google Dedicated Interconnect, or Oracle FastConnect
- Proven experience leading highly effective technical teams through major technology and organizational change
- Proven experience re-engineering complex Internet-based network designs to optimize for services and applications that are sensitive to network turbulence (e.g., latency, jitter, loss)
- Proven experience driving operational performance through defining and enforcing Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
- Experience driving and/or significantly participating in vendor RFPs for network products (e.g., hardware, software, tools, telco, services)
- Experience in researching emerging technologies and trends, standards, and products and synthesizing into clear technology roadmaps and strategies
- Strong influencing skills and an ability to overcome barriers while driving change
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills for a wide range of audiences including executives, business stakeholders, and IT teams
- Strong attention to detail with an ability to operate effectively across multiple priorities
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