Senior Network Engineer - Demonware - Dublin, IRL

Activision • Dublin, CA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

We are looking for a talented Senior Network Engineer to join our Platform Department and help form technical direction and standard methodologies for our current and future needs. While this role will be based in our Dublin office, the team is based across the world (Vancouver, Shanghai & Dublin). You will improve efficiency in our existing hardware fleet and services and ensure that we evolve our technologies to meet the demands of ourselves and our internal customers. You will drive us towards infrastructure as code using frameworks such as Ansible. Our goal is to provide data centre and cloud infrastructure in a secure, scalable and repeatable way!

Requirements

• 8+ years practical data centre network experience, preferably working with large scale networks in a global 24/7 environment
• Solid grasp of 2, or more, of the following areas: TCP/IP, Routing & Switching, Load Balancer technologies, Firewall technologies
• Experience with compute and network hardware and architecture
• A desire to automate all the things
• Tenacity for debugging and solving technology problems at root cause
• Familiarity with network services (e.g. BGP, NAT, VPN, VXLAN, EVPN)
• Familiarity with common system services, as they interact with the network, (e.g. PXE, DNS, DHCP, NFS, SNMP)
• Strong scripting skills: Unix shell programming and ideally Python
• Knowledge of Linux operating systems and operating system abstraction technologies: virtualization (preferably KVM) and/or Linux containers (e.g. LXC/LXD, Docker)
• Familiarity with Kubernetes networking model and concepts such as pod networking, overlays, network policy and ingress
• Familiarity with software-based network functions and application in a Kubernetes environment, e.g. iptables, IPVS, routing on the host (RoH), open source routing daemons (bird, frr), reverse proxies and ingress controllers

Responsibilities

• Work on key infrastructure projects involving multiple teams
• Troubleshoot and debug, often in collaboration with other teams
• Provide network infrastructure for virtualized and containerized workloads to other teams in Demonware
• Run network infrastructure in our data centres encompassing provisioning, and overall lifecycle management
• Act as an escalation point for networks and services owned by the team
• Be part of our on-call rotation, shared with your team and by Demonware engineers globally

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed