Senior Cloud Network Engineer

Senior Cloud Network Engineer - DevNetOps

The Mimecast Cloud Networking team delivers a reliable and performant network built on top of a hybrid-cloud technology stack to ensure Mimecast’s services remain available and able to serve Mimecast customers at scale.

The Cloud Networking team at Mimecast are looking for a talented Senior Cloud Network Engineer with experience automating and operating networks in hybrid-cloud environments.  We’d like to hear from you if you’re someone who’s an expert at Networking and IaC, with an automation-first mindset and knows what it takes to build and operate a resilient, secure and highly automated network architecture. You should be proficient at scripting and IaC, such as Ansible, Python scripting, and Terraform, and proficient working in a Linux environment. As someone who lives and breathes cloud networking, you will possess a passion for staying abreast of the latest emerging technologies in cloud, networking and automation.

As a Mimecast Senior Cloud Network Engineer, you will:

• Build, configure, and administer network devices, services, and components, ensuring optimal performance, security, and availability using Network as Code philosophies.
• Proactively identify and resolve infrastructure issues encompassing distributed networks, providing swift restoration to operational status, and minimizing down-time.
• Deploy network changes and maintain tools, automation, and Infrastructure as Code to manage and monitor the network.
• Provide an outstanding support experience for our internal Engineering teams by working with Product and Engineering teams to support program delivery.
• Identify improvements to runbooks, monitoring, and documentation.
• Participate in an on-call rotation and respond to alerts.

To succeed in this role, you will need:

• A good level of experience in a relevant technical role, with excellent proficiency maintaining and troubleshooting distributed networks in a Hybrid Cloud environment.
• To have worked in a large environment understanding why IaC and Network as Code are critical to success
• Hands-on experience deploying & maintaining network infrastructure, in both datacentres and AWS
• An in-depth understanding of networking principals and protocols.
• A proactive attitude and a willingness to take on new challenges and deliver results.
• Be naturally creative and resourceful, with an outstanding attention to detail.
• Outstanding communication and collaboration skills, with an ability to connect with others to problem-solve, explain resolution etc.

Candidates with skillsets in the following are preferred:

• Relevant degree or equivalent qualifications, e.g., JNCIS-DC, CCNP/CCDP, AWS Advanced Networking is a plus.
• Infrastructure as Code or Network as Code practices
• Juniper routing and switching
• Palo Alto and/or Fortinet  firewalls
• Ansible
• Python
• CI/CD tooling ( Git / Puppet / Jenkins / Terraform )
• Kubernetes

What We Bring:

Join our Cloud Network team to accelerate your career journey, working with cutting-edge technologies and contributing to projects that have real customer impact. You will be immersed in a dynamic environment that recognizes and celebrates your achievements.

Mimecast offers formal and on-the-job learning opportunities, maintains a comprehensive benefits package that helps our employees and their family members to sustain a healthy lifestyle, and importantly - working in cross functional teams to build your knowledge!

Our Hybrid Model: We provide you with the flexibility to live balanced, healthy lives through our hybrid working model that champions both collaborative teamwork and individual flexibility. Employees are expected to come to the office at least two days per week, because working together in person:

Fosters a culture of collaboration, communication, performance and learning

• Drives innovation and creativity within and between teams
• Introduces employees to priorities outside of their immediate realm
• Ensures important interpersonal relationships and connections with one a other and our community!

DEI Statement

Cybersecurity is a community effort. That’s why we’re committed to building an inclusive, diverse community that celebrates and welcomes everyone – unless they’re a cybercriminal, of course.

We’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, and we’d encourage you to join us whatever your background. We particularly welcome applicants from traditionally underrepresented groups.

We consider everyone equally: your race, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, ability, marital status, nationality, or any other protected characteristic won’t affect your application.

Due to certain obligations to our customers, an offer of employment will be subject to your successful completion of applicable background checks, conducted in accordance with local law.