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About Tencent
Tencent is a world-leading internet and technology company that develops innovative products and services to improve the quality of life of people around the world. Founded in 1998 with its headquarters in Shenzhen China, our guiding principle is to use technology for good.

We are not only a major video game publisher in the world, we also produce other high-quality digital content, enriching interactive entertainment experiences for people around the globe. We offer a range of services such as cloud computing, advertising, FinTech, and other enterprise services to support our clients' digital transformation and business growth.

About Our Team
Tencent Overseas IT has the mission to empower Tencent’s rapid global growth with future ready, global IT platforms, applications and services. We are chartered to lead the Overseas IT strategy, architecture, roadmap and execution. Satisfying our internal/external customers and becoming a world class global IT team are our top aspirations.

We are currently seeking a passionate and seasoned Senior Network Engineer to design and build a world-class network infrastructure for everyone at Tencent Overseas. You’ll be responsible for designing, building, implementing and supporting the global network infrastructure for workplace offices and Tencent's Point-of-Presence/IDCs across the globe. You will collaborate with the various teams, partners, stakeholders from headquarters in China and other regions around the world. You will make a meaningful impact on Tencent's overseas business by laying a solid foundation for building a high performance, scalable and stable global network infrastructure.

As a Senior Network Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, building, and operating the global, intelligent network infrastructure to meet the requirements of high availability, scalability, and high-performance. By joining this team, you will gain marketable software development and/or network operation experiences in office networking on a massive scale.

• Design, build, operate and optimize Tencent's global network for both office and global POP/IDC including backbone, data center, private and public cloud and edge.
• Leveraging global POP/IDCs, Tencent Cloud etc. to create a robust, intelligent and highly efficient global network solutions for different kind of workplace, game studio, developers, application etc.
• Work with ISPs and external vendors for device and carrier selection, perform testing, verification and optimisation for high availability
• Work with cross-functional teams to advise on cloud computing, storage, cloud-based system, and drive the innovation and evolution of overall Tencent network
• Create and maintain detailed systems documentation for BAU infrastructure project and operations
• Plan, engineer, and monitor the security measures to ensure network security and build dashboard to generates system health and relevant product metrics
• Support network operation, provide network problem resolution and troubleshooting of network incidents
• Configure and maintain network devices and firewalls using international standard, best practices and defined security policies
• Analyse and monitor network performance/status and drive network automation and DevOps

Requirements:

• Bachelor's in Computer Science, Information Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field, or experience equivalent to a Bachelor's degree based on 3 or more years of work experience
• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience operating in a similar role
• Proven track record of designing, implementing and supporting a world-class network at a regional/global scale.
• Hands-on experience and knowledge in the area of modern network infrastructure technologies such as routing, switching protocols, network layer, software and hardware, networking/Interconnect, DevOps, etc.
• Hands-on experience of major network devices, such as Cisco, Fortinet and other mainstream product.
• Proficiency with solving networking and firewall problems that flow through load balancers such, firewalls, and networking equipment
• Good understanding of network protocols/technologies including TCP/IP, DHCP, BGP, OSPF, and SDWAN, MPLS related technologies.
• Able to understand and operate network monitoring protocols and systems, such as SNMP, Sflow/netflow, Telemetry, DNAC, SolarWind and Ekahau Pro
• Good understanding of Network Security (Firewall, NAC, Zero Trust)
• In-depth knowledge of IPSEC: Site-to-site etc.
• Advanced knowledge of network operating systems including Cisco, and IOS
• Self-motivated and able to work independently, with little supervision
• Detail oriented with excellent communication skills. Strong procedural documentation skills.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills to interact effectively at all levels.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
• Relevant industry professional certifications such as CCNP, CCIE or similar equivalents is a big plus
• Well-versed in Network security and in-depth physical security knowledge is a plus