Key skills
Azure Cloud NetworkingNetwork SecurityLoad BalancingRoutingSwitchingAutomation LanguagesCloud-based Security ArchitecturesObservability ProductsCertifications AWSCertifications AzureCertifications GCPProject ManagementCommunication SkillsAdaptabilityPythonPerlShellPowerShellKafkaAWSAzureGCPTerraformAnsibleAzure MonitorPrometheusGrafanaELK StackEvent StreamingAkamaiCloudflareCachingLeadershipCommunicationFirewall
About this role
Dayforce is a global human capital management company headquartered in Toronto and Minneapolis, seeking a Senior Network Engineer to play a pivotal role within their Cloud Network team. The role involves providing technical direction for network infrastructure, troubleshooting issues, and collaborating with various teams to ensure network availability and performance.
Responsibilities:
- Provide overall technical direction and strategic leadership for the delivery of highly available and scalable network infrastructure. This includes edge networking, caching, global backbone, data center networking, load balancing, and network security across both public and private clouds
- Take on a lead role in efforts to support and troubleshoot availability, performance, product, and infrastructure issues within production environments
- Collaborate closely with cloud engineering, SRE, support, and product teams to ensure timely resolution of customer-impacting issues
- Implement automated configuration and deployment process improving network functionality, availability, and performance
- Develop infrastructure-as-code across both public and private clouds using industry best practices
- Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of network infrastructure using rich telemetry data
Requirements:
- Must be a US citizen
- Ability to obtain US security clearance
- Solid foundation in networking including routing, switching, security and load balancing
- Fluency in Azure Cloud Networking with a strong understanding of protocols such as BGP, TCP/IP, DNS, SMTP, HTTP, and routing across globally distributed networks
- Demonstrable experience in operating multi-regional environments incorporating Azure networking technologies including Azure Virtual WAN, Application Gateway, NAT Gateway, VNet Peering, Azure Firewall Premium, Azure NSG/ ASG, Traffic Manager, Front Door, ideally at a global scale
- Expert knowledge of load balancing technologies (e.g. F5, AVI)
- Expert knowledge of network edge security providers (e.g. Akamai, Cloudflare, Imperva)
- Proficiency in one or more automation languages (e.g. PowerShell, shell scripts, Perl, Python, Ansible, Terraform)
- Extensive experience with cloud-based security architectures, tools, policy automation, governance, and application monitoring
- Experience with observability products including commercial APM tools, ELK stack, Azure monitor, Prometheus, and Grafana
- Demonstrated ability to deploy and manage the lifecycle of cloud services
- Experience with networking/implementing event streaming architectures (e.g. Kafka, RedPanda)
- Strong program and project management experience, demonstrating the ability to identify, prioritize, and successfully execute competing priorities
- Ability to balance the needs for exceptionally high availability, performance, and scalability while reducing costs
- Strong written and verbal communication skills across both technical and non-technical audiences
- Ability to lead discussions about complex solution design tradeoffs and drive conflict resolution
- Ability to thrive and adapt in a fast-paced, high-growth, and rapidly changing environment
- Certifications from AWS, Azure, or GCP are a bonus