About the Role
The team is looking for someone with a passion for building large scale networks, observability and operational tooling, and with an automation focus. If you value simplicity, work comfortably in a collaborative, fast paced environment, and are excited to both teach and learn, we'd love to talk to you.
- Design, build and operate all facets of our next-generation network solutions, to include production on-prem, cloud, transit and backbone networks in a 24/7 environment.
- Responsible for ensuring network availability, performance and future scalability for the entire Uber platform, spanning both on-premise and Cloud environments.
- Embrace cross-team collaboration. You’ll work closely with people across multiple Engineering and Business organizations to develop and implement network-based solutions that support our global growth.
- Apply your intellectual curiosity and research new technologies; figure out their practical applications within our principles and then bring it to life in our production networks.
What the Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points
- Provide operational level 1 and level 2 support, troubleshooting and problem remediation of Uber’s production data center networks.
- Provide production on-prem and cloud networking support (AWS and GCP), interconnects, and VPC creation.
- Assist in new production deployments (rack builds/capacity adds).
- Engineers will be required to participate in regular on-call rotations.
- Collaborate with Uber teams especially Network Lifecycle and TPMs on project based work.
- New deployments, upgrades and remediation of Uber networks/data centers.
- Remote deployment support.
Basic Qualifications
- 2+ years of relevant network architecture and engineering experience in production environments.
- Strong expertise in TCP, IPv4/6, and dynamic routing protocols such as BGP.
- Coding experience in Python or Go
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience leading large-scale green or brownfield architecture, designs, and deployments for global or national enterprise or Service Providers in backbone or data center network fabrics.
- You are passionate about leveraging software innovations to automate network management, improve network observability, and remediate problems.
- Proficiency in one or more programming or scripting languages such as Go, Java, or Python with 2+ years experience.
- Proven ability to lead operational excellence through best-practice change management, outage mitigation and blameless post-mortem processes.
- 2+ years of hands-on experience designing, deploying and/or operating Cloud networking in either Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform environments (Direct peering, VPC networking, Security controls).
- Knowledge about distributed systems such as Network/Application load balancers, DNS, VM/container networking.
- Domain expertise in one or more of the following areas: AWS, GCP, Backbone network design and architecture, large scale on premise data center networking, network automation and observability, large scale distributed systems.
- You have great interpersonal skills, deep technical ability, and a portfolio of successful execution. You are open-minded to discuss various technical approaches and able to drive consensus across various stakeholders at Uber.
- A relentless desire to build each network better than the last. Treat networking, operational efficiency, and automation as sciences with room for artful breakthroughs.
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