We are looking for a Senior Network Engineer to join our Cloud Platform Team and help develop and deploy clouds and services. The role requires a solid background in cloud infrastructure, deployment using Infrastructure-as-Code, observability, high-performance networking, and storage systems.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in a relevant subject
- Significant hands-on experience with 1 or more vendor's high-end (100Gb/s+) ethernet switch solutions
- Experience managing on-premises or private-cloud environments
- Solid software engineering or IT experience with a proven track record of delivering technical output as an individual contributor
- Experience working in an AGILE and SCRUM framework
- Strong proven Linux scripting ability (bash, python, awk, sed)
- Strong proven Linux system administration (Ubuntu, RHEL and variants)
- Experience with a version control system (preferably Git) and using it to manage system configuration or automation
- Experience with Continuous Integration or testing pipelines using GitLab, GitHub or similar
- A solid hands-on understanding of the technologies underpinning cloud services (APIs, virtualisation of CPUs, IO, systems) and how they relate to high-performance networking
- Experience with IAC automation tools (Terraform/OpenTofu, Ansible)
- Experience with container deployment and management tools (e.g. docker)
- Experience with solutions for monitoring and observability. e.g. Grafana, Prometheus, OpenSearch/ElasticSearch, Loki
- Good communication and presentation skills, and experience dealing with end-users of IT services
- An ability to work independently on critical infrastructure with minimal oversight, and with a focus on end-user availability
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Flexible working
- Generous annual leave policy
- Private medical insurance
- Health cash plan
- Dental plan
- Pension (matched up to 5%)
- Life assurance
- Income protection
- Generous parental leave policy
- Employee assistance programme