Network Site Reliability Engineer

Network Site Reliability Engineer

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Title: Network Site Reliability Engineer
Duration: 6 Month Extendable Contract (Potential to convert full time)
100% Remote
Our client is looking for an SRE-minded network engineer to help continue driving their growing Google Cloud Platform partnership and infrastructure. Their current team is predominately traditional network engineers who lack automation + coding background so this role will take on a mentorship role and be a key contributor to a team of 12.

Top Skills Details:

CI/CD deployment in Google Cloud Platform

Terraform

Coding-Python or GoLang

Description:

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of relevant work experience in Network design/ Operations and Automation.
• Automation/ development in python/JS with a focus on networking in Cloud.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins, and open source technologies.
• Experience with Automation of Network & Security Virtual Appliance deployment in Google Cloud Platform

Preferred qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or Master's in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• Experience with scaling network management systems, building dev-ops tools for hybrid networks.
• Automate & Implement Network in cloud environment utilizing Cloud Native Network and Security services
• Implement 3rd party Virtual devices (e.g. Arista, Cisco CSRs, Palo Alto Firewalls) in AWS / Google Cloud Platform to close gaps where cloud-native solutions are not meeting company requirements.
• Experience leveraging standards-based solutions and enabling open source technologies.
• Ability to effectively communicate, navigate ambiguity, define the scope, and address complexity.
• Experience with google technologies like golang, grpc a plus.
• Google Cloud Platform Professional Cloud Network Engineer Certification a plus.

Responsibilities:

• Build network infrastructure as a code using Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes
• Manage CICD pipelines, configuration, automation tools for infrastructure provisioning.
• Write and maintain runbooks for knowledge-driven automated processes and bots.
• Do capacity planning based on performance, usage, and utilization stats.
• Partner with engineering teams to automate the observability, availability and scalability of our network in the cloud and on-prem.
• Ensure network availability and business continuity by implementing a redundant network.
• Manage after-hours infrastructure updates and maintenance.
• Proactively research and propose the use of new concepts, processes, technologies, and tools.
• Proactive monitoring, diagnosis, and resolution of issues in a 24x7 of multi-cloud environment (AWS/Google Cloud Platform), analyze failures, and provide support for engineers to debug production issues across microservices and distributed platforms.
• Follow SRE best practices and procedures.

Skills:

Google Cloud Platform, Python, Google Cloud, Arista, Terraform, Kubernetes, Jenkins

Additional Skills & Qualifications:

Arista, Cisco, and Palo Alto Firewalls

About TEKsystems:

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.