Staff Network Engineer

Quantifind•Palo Alto, CA

10d•$195,000 - $220,000•Hybrid

About The Position

You enjoy designing and implementing secure, high performance network topologies for Internet-facing SaaS applications. You can conduct security assessments and make recommendations on networks with multiple VLANs, DMZ, point-to-point connections between our data centers, WAFs, and Internet connectivity for a SaaS application. You can configure and upgrade Dell switches, routers and PAN firewalls. You know how to conduct incident triage and response, including working with firewall and device logs, investigating security events, and protecting the forensic value of data. You can improve and extend monitoring for better incident reporting and response. You embrace the ethic of “network as code” to provide consistency and security for both Public Cloud and data center deployments. You hold yourself to a high standard when writing clean, performant, and maintainable code for deployments and configuration management. You enjoy finding new ways to improve the design, performance, and testing of the network systems that you deploy and operate. You care deeply about both your work and your team. You are a top performer who is effective in mentoring other engineers and in communicating with other technical specialties. You value the security of a company with a proven business model and enjoy the challenges a startup offers. Quantifind helps some of the world’s biggest banks catch money laundering and fraud. Quantifind also works with government agencies to use the same platform to uncover criminal networks and combat money laundering committed by internationally sanctioned entities. Unlike other players in this space, Quantifind delivers results as software-as-a-service (SaaS) with consumer-grade user experiences. Quantifind is a data science technology company whose AI platform uncovers signals of risk across disparate and unstructured text sources. In financial crimes risk management, Quantifind’s solution uniquely combines internal financial institution data with public domain data to assess risk in the context of Know Your Customer (KYC), Customer Due Diligence (CDD), Fraud Risk Management, and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) processes. Today these compliance processes are burdened by ever-increasing regulatory responsibilities and an expectation of frictionless transactions. Legacy technologies demand increasingly more human resources as the operations expand; Quantifind’s SaaS solution offers a way to cut through the inefficiency and enhance effectiveness simultaneously. We process terabytes of data each day on our own dedicated Hadoop clusters. We use real-time data services to enable interactive investigations in our SaaS applications and APIs. We use Kubernetes and Docker for our container ecosystem, and we develop standalone services in Scala and Python and use Spark for MapReduce jobs. To help you succeed, we provide a supportive environment that fosters collaboration between teams and team members, where learning and professional growth are considered a key part of your success, and of ours. We offer a flexible work environment with a family friendly work-life balance. As a Staff Network Engineer at Quantifind on our DevOps Team in Palo Alto, California, you will play a critical role in designing and implementing the security of our SaaS applications and services exposed via APIs. Our stack includes back-end services and infrastructure, machine learning modules, and a React-based front-end web application. As a member of our DevOps Team, you will have a big impact on how we build, automate, and scale our technology and processes. Our technology includes: Ubuntu, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, git, Hadoop, Spark, Ganeti, Nagios, PostgreSQL, Jenkins, and Scala and NodeJS services. We deploy to our own data centers and to AWS. Quantifind’s development team is centered in Palo Alto, California, and we have technology hubs in Atlanta, Georgia, and in Washington, D.C. Quantifind is currently using a hybrid mix of working from home and in the office, with regular in-person touchpoints and shared office space.

Requirements

You hold a Bachelor’s degree in a technical field and have at least 8 years of professional industry experience as a Network Engineer
Great team player who has a strong desire to build and operate secure high performance networks for Machine Learning-driven Internet facing SaaS applications and APIs
Extensive background in planning and crafting projects and analyzing existing network systems and procedures for security and performance efficiencies
Professional experience with Dell OS10, Dell network switches, and PAN firewalls
Professional experience with Cloud-based WAFs such as Cloudflare or Akamai
Deep understanding of network security systems, intrusion detection systems and protocols including ACE, ACS, VPN, GRE, IPSEC, IKE, TACACS, RADIUS, ACLs, 802.1x, audits, log files, etc.
Experienced understanding of networking and routing protocols such as TCP/IP, BGP4 (multi-homing), OSPF (multi-area), RIP, ISIS, etc.
Working knowledge in the operation of Ethernet LAN switching protocols and standards including VLANs, VLAN aggregation, EtherChannel, PVLANs, Spanning Tree & Rapid Spanning Tree, 802.1Q
Strong scripting experience in automated firewall policy management and network automation and analytics using Ansible and Python
Professional experience using Ansible for configuration management tools
Experience with Git workflows to foster collaboration
Experienced with Linux and Unix style network equipment operating systems at the command line
Professional experience with Public Cloud platforms (IaaS/PaaS), especially AWS
Professional success in data center network design, build-out, and standard methodologies
Experience with multi-tier architectures, including standard methodologies for tier isolation
Experience with uptime/availability engineering, performance metrics, and monitoring
Professional experience using monitoring tools like Nagios, Munin, and Zenoss
Professional experience in the design, implementation and testing of business continuity and disaster recovery plans
Well-versed in commercial InfoSec requirements and standards, including risk analysis, compliance obligations, and periodic change reviews
Excellent communication, presentation and collaborative problem-solving skills
Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future