ExecutivePlacements.com · 1 week ago
Principal Network Engineer
Texas, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/StaffExecutivePlacements.com is looking for a Principal Network Engineer to join their Cloud Engineering team. This role is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining networking solutions across multiple data centers and public cloud environments, ensuring a reliable and scalable infrastructure for the organization.
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Responsibilities
Data center evaluation, onboarding, and management
ISP evaluation, onboarding, and management
Networking design, configuration, and monitoring
Hardware evaluation, qualification, onboarding, and management
Capacity planning
Utilize Infrastructure as Code (IaC), configuration management, and centralized secrets storage to automate the provisioning and management of infrastructure, ensuring consistent and repeatable environments
Implement robust observability solutions to monitor system performance (logs, metrics, traces) using tools like Prometheus and Grafana. Configure alerting for proactive issue resolution
Oversee installation, configuration, patching, and updating of network equipment to ensure reliable, secure, performant, cost-effective operation
Optimize resource allocation to ensure efficient utilization of hardware capabilities
Qualification
Required
Expert knowledge of Linux operating system internals and architecture, with a focus on networking stability and performance turning
In-depth understanding of networking layers, protocols, services, and security practices
Familiarity with configuring and troubleshooting network hardware and software, as well as analyzing packet captures
Expertise designing and managing network infrastructure across multiple data centers and public cloud environments
Expertise with virtualization technologies, with a focus on networking stability and performance turning
Experience in evaluating, qualifying, and managing networking hardware and capacity planning
Expertise with container management (Kubernetes, ECS, Docker, Helm)
Expertise with configuration management (Ansible, Chef, Puppet)
Expertise with infrastructure as code (Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi)
Expertise with monitoring and alerting systems (Cloudwatch, Datadog, New Relic, Site24x7, Dynatrace)
Experience with VCS systems and providers (Git, Mercurial, Github, Sourcehut)
Experience with CI/CD systems (Github Actions, Circle CI, Argo)
Experience with ticket management systems (Jira, Shortcut, Azure Devops)
Leads from behind, coaching and developing their peers
Balances tactical and strategic needs to address both short and long-term organizational priorities based on articulated team and company goals
Demonstrates intrinsic motivation
Writes clear, concise, and meaningful documentation
Develops and leverages collaborative, empathetic relationships across the organization
Ability to make and explain thoughtful decisions based on sound logical, analytical, data-driven reasoning
Preferred
Have a podcast feed full of Packet Pushers content
Have used most of the tools on Brendan Gregg's Linux Performance page
Love leading a blameless RCA discussion
Cringe when someone uses 10x engineer unironically
Company
ExecutivePlacements.com
Online recruitment
Founded in 2011
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase