Senior Network Engineer, Corporate Networking

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Blizzard Entertainment is seeking an experienced Senior Network Engineer to join our corporate network team!

Our unique blend of opportunity, environment, and people help make Blizzard a fun and interesting place to work. You’ll be joining a team that maintains and improves a network environment that allows our devs and artists to create some of the best games in the world. We love keeping up with the latest technology and take pride in protecting and gatekeeping some of the world’s most popular and beloved gaming franchises. And just like the company as a whole, our team is built on a culture of passion for who we are, what we create, and who we support. We want to hear from skilled network engineers ready and eager to continue this adventure with our tight-knit team. If the following sounds interesting and fits your skillset, send us your resume.

This role is anticipated to be a hybrid work position, with some work on-site and some work-from-home. The home studio for this role is Irvine, CA.

Your role and responsibilities

• Be a key player in network engineering projects that support ongoing game development spanning across a multi-site global network
• Enjoy engineering freedom, exploring new technologies, while committing to fit-for-purpose designs and showing a strong sense of ownership
• You will be focusing on network technologies spanning across routing & switching, firewall implementation and configuration, data center networking, wireless, and DNS
• You will identify operational pain points and suggest and implement improvements, while supporting automation efforts when it comes to network device deployment, configuration and standard practices
• You will advocate for healthy operational practices. You will drive incident investigations, troubleshooting efforts and proactively act on identified setup weakness, towards improving resiliency and availability of our corporate and development services
• Work on user network issues that get escalated from our service desk team
• Be a part of our on-call support rotation, shared with your colleagues around the world

Working Methodology

• Show a strong sense of responsibility, when it comes to commitments and engineering work
• Care about the infrastructure environment and advocate for its improvement
• Be motivated to push through friction
• Be open minded, listening to the team’s voice, showing a collaborative attitude
• Believe that good documentation helps successful project delivery
• Believe in smooth operations, diligently planning for changes, aiming for execution excellence
• Believe in engineering quality, avoiding shortcuts and technical debt, pushing for standards and simplicity

Your technical expertise

• 7+ Years’ Experience working professionally with switches and routers (Cisco Catalyst and Nexus preferred)
• Deep understanding and experience with routing protocols (such as BGP, OSPF) and network protocols (such as IPv4, IPv6, NAT, Multicast, Spanning Tree)
• Knowledge of Cisco routing and switching hardware platforms architecture, forwarding and data planes
• Strong experience with Palo Alto firewalls. Knowledge of using Panorama to implement device groups and templates to make changes to firewalls globally. Experience with implementing site to site tunnels. Knowledge of GlobalProtect VPN
• Experience with load balancing hardware (A10 or similar hardware)
• Experience with VXLAN flood and learn and familiarity with VXLAN EVPN
• If you have strong experience with either Cisco ISE or Infoblox DNS (or both) you will have a much higher consideration in the selection process
• Experience with monitoring and alerting systems, NMS systems
• Experience deploying, troubleshooting and maintaining network hardware and software, for one or more vendors: Cisco, Palo Alto, etc. / NX-OS, IOS-XE, PAN-OS

Extra Points

• You are passionate about online gaming and/or Blizzard games
• Knowledge of IPv6
• Experience with open-source tools facilitating the management of network infrastructure services
• Knowledge of Linux operating systems and/or virtualization technologies and/or Linux containers
• Knowledge or experience of writing or using advanced scripts in any programming language

Rewards

We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our employees covered! Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:

• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance;
• 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching;
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave;
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others;
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.

Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company. You can learn more by visiting https://www.benefitsforeveryworld.com/ .