Senior Network Engineer

October 11

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innovation • internet • technology • advertising • media

10,000+

💰 $4.8M Series B on 1995-11

Description

• Provide consulting and guidance for all new Yahoo applications and/or projects that affect network resources and provide consulting on existing application deployments • Design, Document, and Support end-to-end networking solutions to support global deployment of Yahoo services including Global backbone—WAN, Metro, Data Center—LAN • Provide training and implementation guidance on newly introduced technologies, designs, and equipment. • Hands-on evaluation and testing of new platforms for Yahoo networking including development of test plans for current and next generation platforms, work closely with a team of test engineers through test cycles, and partner with industry vendors on next generation platforms that will meet Yahoo’s needs in the future platform selection. • Continued support for all Yahoo technology, design, and platforms • Contribute to automation framework for network configuration and troubleshooting • Use internal tooling and networking knowledge to diagnose problems on the network and work toward remediation. • Operates at a Tier3 support level taking incidents from the Network OC and SRE Teams and sees them through to completion.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience • Experience with large scale global network (production, backbone and corporate) environments. • Experience managing enterprise LAN/WAN, wireless, authentication, and VPN infrastructures • Knowledge of current networking systems including routers, switches, firewalls, VPNs, load-balancers and all IP-based protocols • Expert level experience with Juniper, Cisco and Ciena required • Strong knowledge in TCP/IP, L2/L3 protocols, LAN, Spanning-tree, WAN, Metro, IPv4, IPv6, BGP, ISIS, OSPF, MPLS, QoS/CoS, MACSec • Strong hands on knowledge and experience in layer 1 - Fiber Optic, OTDR, BERT, WDM, ROADM, etc • Experience with network testing equipment and software, e.g., layer-1 switches (e.g. Calient), IXIA, Spirent, iTest, Velocity, etc • Strong working knowledge of all OSI Layers focusing on the network stack - TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, MPLS-TE, VXLAN/EVPN, and Anycast concepts • Experience writing automation code in at least one of the following: Python, Perl, Javascript, JS/web frameworks and XML+xpath • Knowledge of source code management systems, version control tools and developing web services • Excellent communication and network diagramming and network documentation knowledge required