Our reliability engineering teams are small and close-knit groups of experts spread across the world, and we are looking to expand our NRE team in Europe and NA. The role of NRE is to develop, deploy and maintain network automation technologies to support product development, increase the reliability of our networks, and reduce manual processes required to support customers

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:

Developing new systems and expanding existing ones to automate network device configuration and data collection/storage/display.
Troubleshooting issues along with SRE, developers, or network engineers, providing systems and architecture level insight to the current issue.
Assisting and consulting with developers, network engineers, etc to ensure our software and platforms adhere to best practices and provide the best outcomes
Working with our configuration management systems to improve automation workflows and support requested features
Researching, investigating, and providing justification for new technologies that would benefit the organisation

WHAT YOU BRING:

As a well-rounded software engineer and automation enjoyer with a diverse set of skills, you should have:

The ability to produce high quality, clean and readable Python code
The ability to troubleshoot and work with existing Python and Go code
Linux systems knowledge and experience
The ability to identify risk and manage appropriately
The ability to work autonomously as well as with colleagues as required
The ability and willingness to learn new things, which may require figuring out without documentation - and then write documentation afterwards!
A high degree of drive to improve and automate your environment with minimal guidance
Familiarity with at least one network platform (Juniper, Cisco, Arista, Ciena, Nokia, etc) from an automation perspective.
Familiarity with networking concepts such as VLAN, VXLAN, MPLS, BGP, etc
Familiarity with configuration management/IaC tools such as Ansible, Salt, Terraform, Chef, Puppet, CloudFormation etc
Experience with Docker and Kubernetes as well as other forms of containerisation and virtualisation
Solid understanding of TCP/IP, including knowledge of common protocols such as HTTP, TLS, DNS, DHCP, NTP, SSH, SMTP, etc

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

Experience with automation of cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, etc) and their management
Experience with message queue systems like RMQ, ZMQ, Kafka, Pub/Sub etc
Experience with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, BitBucket, Bamboo etc
Experience with other programming languages, especially Go.
Experience with large scale network management and/or monitoring.
Hands-on experience making applications work at scale.
RDBMS experience, preferably PostgreSQL
Experience with time-series data stores
Experience working in an environment leveraging remote communication collaboration tools like slack, zoom etc. across multiple time zones

WHY JOIN PACKETFABRIC?

PacketFabric is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse, inclusive team and providing equal opportunities for all employees and applicants, regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, disability status, or any other protected category.