Senior Network Engineer, Wide Area Enterprise Network

5 Months ago • 6 Years + • Network Engineering

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior Network Engineer at Google, you'll design and enhance the wide area network (WAN) infrastructure, ensuring smooth operation and scalability. You'll collaborate with operations and deployment teams, ensuring designs are safe, efficient, and meet user needs. Responsibilities include delivering multi-vendor networks, resolving escalated issues, providing technical leadership for projects to enhance network stability and scalability, driving automation for sustainable deployments, reviewing technologies and performance, and partnering with engineering for lifecycle management of network designs and rollouts. You will develop the next generation of enterprise metro and wide area networking infrastructure.
Must have:
  • 6+ years experience with network routing protocols, design, and troubleshooting
  • Experience with test methodologies, test plans, and test cases
  • Experience in test automation using Python or C++
  • Solid knowledge of networking technologies and protocols (ARP, Ethernet, DHCP, IPSec, GRE, WiFi standards, routing protocols, DNS, RADIUS, 802.1x)
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field
Good to have:
  • Advanced degree in Computer Science or related field
  • Experience configuring enterprise-class routers, switches, firewalls, and wireless controllers
  • Experience with LANs, WLANs, and WANs
  • Experience in high-volume, high-availability network technologies
  • Ability to write well-structured code

Job Details

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 6 years of experience with network routing protocols, design and troubleshooting, with network equipment providers.
  • Experience with test methodologies, writing test plans and creating test cases.
  • Experience in test automation using Python or C++.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Advanced degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent practical experience.
  • Experience in configuring enterprise-class routers, switches, firewalls and wireless controllers across different vendors.
  • Experience in deploying and working with Local Area Networks (LANs), Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) and Wide Area Networks (WANs).
  • Experience in high volume, high availability network technologies.
  • Solid knowledge of fundamental networking technologies and protocols (ARP Ethernet, DHCP, IPSec, GRE, WiFi standards, routing protocols, DNS, RADIUS, 802.1x).
  • Knowledge of principles and the practice of processes for developing computer software, ability to write working and well structured code.

About the job

Google is proud to boast a network that provides service to millions of Internet users around the world. The Network Engineering team is responsible for operating that network reliably and at scale. As a member of the team, you have a direct impact on design and feature enhancements to keep our systems running smoothly. You also ensure that network operations are safe and efficient by monitoring network performance, coordinating planned maintenance, adjusting hardware components and responding to network connectivity issues. Google's complex network generates a constant stream of challenges which require you to continually be innovative with an evolving set of technologies. Keeping the network reliable ensures that our users stay connected with our suite of applications, products and services.

As a Senior Network Engineer, you will be responsible for the wide area network infrastructure design and features to keep our systems running smoothly. You will partner with network operations and deployment to ensure the designs and solutions are safe, efficient, and address our user's requirements.

In this role, you will develop the next generation of enterprise metro and wide area networking that connects our various user and compute locations together. You will make continual improvements to ensure Google’s network infrastructure meets the needs of our users.

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure delivery of multi-vendor networks across various platforms and technologies. Collaborate with other engineers and project managers to design, build and turnover successful deployments to operations.
  • Drive resolution of escalated network issues, perform fault isolation and trouble resolution on network protocols, technologies, hardware, software, and circuits to successfully meet due dates.
  • Provide technical leadership for projects to increase stability of the network, enhance scalability, efficiency and quality of network deployments. Scale network deployments sustainably through tools and automation.
  • Review deployed technologies, performance, capacity and standard level agreements (SLAs) and provide recommendations that spawn new projects for the team. 
  • Partner with engineering to provide life cycle management of network designs, software selections, validations and rollouts to our fleet. Drive high level strategy for larger or deployments.

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