Senior CNI Cloud Networking Engineer

Luxoft is embarking on an exciting transformation of their real-time market data applications onto a new advanced latency-optimised container platform. The Senior CNI Cloud Networking Engineer will be responsible for designing and building cloud-native container platform networking capabilities and features, while also providing consultancy and support for colleagues deploying applications on this platform.

Responsibilities:

• Ownership of CNI / Cloud networking design, build engineering and development activities required to deliver global cloud-native container platform related business outputs
• Deployment and test planning / execution for container platform networking capabilities and features
• Providing design, engineering and code reviews that show an attention to detail and becoming an advocate for quality within the team
• Become a beacon for Kubernetes CNI / cloud networking knowledge and upskill other squad members / teams within company
• Providing good problem structuring and solving skills across complex multi-layered environments and able to work with either vendor or tenant teams to resolve
• Review and research potential new products; be a champion for these projects within company
• Be comfortable working in a fluid environment where requirements and priorities may change at short notice
• Maintain, configure, and validate your Kubernetes Platform networking builds / development changes across Development, Test and Live environments
• Providing consultancy to colleagues who want to deploy their application on to the new platform and help them to onboard as a tenant
• Speak to the platform architects / product owners, articulating the impact of any current business challenges, issues, or new feature requirements in the container platform networking space

Requirements:

• Ability to present to senior management level in fluent business-level English
• 3+ years of enterprise Kubernetes networking engineering experience on large production environments
• Strong hands-on experience successfully implementing and supporting Kubernetes CNI based container network plug-ins, particularly Cisco Isovalent Cilium and multi-interface builds
• Knowledge around CNI network deployment automation and testing
• Recent Linux experience, particularly around networking / eBPF based configuration
• Experience around monitoring / troubleshooting Linux based networking and securing container-based applications
• Strong data centre IP routing (including BGP/Multicast) and network service knowledge
• Experience of CNI integration into physical LAN Fabrics. (ideally Cisco or Arista)
• Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines
• Working knowledge of Git based pipelines and coding concepts / approaches
• Accustomed to working in a fast-paced environment across many areas or tasks, with the ability to manage multiple activities against specific timelines
• Experience with automation Tooling such as Ansible, Terraform, Scripting
• Test Automation (Framework Creation / Establishing a process, Infra Testing)
• Agile / CICD Tools (JIRA, Confluence, Gitlab)
• As well as a proven technical background, the ideal candidate must be able to participate effectively in multi-functional meetings, clearly articulate sophisticated technical and capabilities, translate business requirements into technical requirements, and ultimately, into outcomes that are fit for purpose and use
• Collaboration is key, as you will be helping company to deliver all of the platform infrastructure build, configuration, tooling, observability, and lifecycle management activities as code