Engineer II - Network Engineer (3+ years)

The role

This person will design, implement, and maintain private and public cloud infrastructure. They will contribute to the maintenance and operation of network components with a focus on building automated solutions.

What you will do

• Deploy, configure, maintain, troubleshoot and optimize network infrastructure.
• Collaborate with senior engineers, architecture and engineering teams to implement network requirements.
• Collaborate with external vendors and partners to improve the network.
• Contribute to network automation initiatives through scalable and intelligent automation solutions.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to ensure stability and availability of critical infrastructure.
• Collaborate closely with onsite engineers to support network installations, troubleshooting, and maintenance.

Required qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in a network engineering role.
• Strong knowledge of and working experience with network routing, switching, and firewalling.
• Experience with modern data center network topologies such as spine-and-leaf and overlay networks.
• Solid understanding of networking principles and concepts including Ethernet, IP (v4 and v6), TCP, UDP, DNS, IPsec, BGP, VXLAN, EVPN, and HTTPS.
• Good proficiency in network security, and experience working with NGFW firewalls.
• Good understanding of public cloud environments (Direct Connect, transit gateway, VPCs, gateway etc.).
• Strong Grafana proficiency: building and maintaining custom metric exporters, designing dashboards, and managing alerting configuration as code via Terraform.
• Experience with VPN technologies.
• Network virtualisation such as VRFs and VXLAN.
• Ability to perform analysis of network performance and application issues using standard diagnostics tools.

Nice to have

• Experience using and integrating DCIM & IPAM applications, such as Device42, Infoblox etc with automation frameworks.
• Knowledge of DC networking technologies such as MLAG, Stacking.
• Experience with cloud providers such as Google Cloud and Azure.
• CCNA, CCNP, JNCIP-DC, Arista ACE:L3, or similar certification.
• Proficient working with Linux operating systems.
• Skilled in scripting (Python or Shell) and familiar with CI/CD practices.
• Understand concepts of Infrastructure-as-Code/Software.

About the company

Anaplan is a team of innovators focused on optimizing business decision-making through an AI-infused scenario planning and analysis platform. Their customers include global companies like Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Adobe, LVMH and Bayer.