Staff Network Engineer
About The Position
In the role of Staff Network Engineer, you will serve as a technical architect and senior project lead for Ripple’s global office networks. You will enable world class, 99.9% uptime network and internet access, and support Ripple’s accelerated growth through new office network design and commissioning. We want a high-impact individual contributor who defines Ripple’s standard for global connectivity, and approaches networking from a lens of continuous improvement and an end-user-experience-first mentality. This position blends high-level planning with practical senior engineering to support a workforce spread around the world.
Requirements
- Expert-level understanding of Arista EOS (CloudVision) and Aruba Central.
- Deep experience with Palo Alto Networks (Panorama, GlobalProtect, and Prisma or equivalent experience)
- Great understanding of cloud based Radius/TACACS+ authentication and certificate management platforms such as Arista AGNI, Foxpass, and ClearPass.
- Expertise in Arista (EOS/CloudVision) and Juniper (JunOS) switching/routing stacks. Experience with MLAG and LACP switch stacking for high availability.
- Senior-level experience with Aruba wireless solutions, particularly Aruba Central in extensive global deployments with high user density.
- Proficiency in NetDevOps tooling such as Python, Ansible.
- Advanced administration of tools like Infoblox (DNS/DHCP/IPAM) in a high-availability, multi-site environment.
- Proficiency with SNMP-based alerting and logging platforms (Auvix, Logicmonitor, etc)
- Expert knowledge of core protocols and standards such as BGP, BFD, STP, and 802.11ax/be wireless standards.
- Experience with network modernization practices like SD-WAN and ZTNA
- Experience with new office network design and installation
Responsibilities
- Define and maintain Ripple Office networking standards, in a way that promotes continuous improvement, agile scalability, and a world class end user experience.
- Act as the final technical point of contact for resolving any critical issues in the global network infrastructure.
- Develop best practice utilization of automation, version control, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD).
- Replace manual "copy-paste" configurations with cloud-managed deployment, reconciliation, and validation tooling.
- Collaborate with the Information Security and other cross-functional teams to drive the next generation of network security at Ripple, implementing Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA).
- Develop a security and compliance posture that is world class, but carefully balances user experience.
- Manage multi-million dollar global hardware through a full lifecycle of design, deployment, maintenance, and upgrades.
- Ownership of Ripple’s 99.9% Network availability SLA.
- Develop changes to architecture needed to robustly meet this SLA, and develop advanced observability to accurately measure adherence.
- Manage relationships with ISPs, hardware vendors, and professional services providers.
- Lead cross-functional projects to meet international deliverables.
Benefits
- Professional development budget
- Competitive salary, bonuses, and equity
- Competitive benefits that cover physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support
- Employee giving match
- Mobile phone stipend
- R&R days
- Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite & virtual programming
- Generous vacation policy
- Industry-leading parental leave policies
- Family planning benefits
- Catered lunches
- Fully-stocked kitchens with premium snacks/beverages
- Plenty of fun events
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
