WealthfrontRemote
Senior Systems Engineer, Network
United States of America
Full Time
7 hours ago
$172,000 - $228,000 USD
H1B Sponsor Likely
Key skills
Routing and switching in data centersLinux systemsHardware provisioningNetwork device configurationCapacity planningBGPMLAGVLANsDNSPalo Alto Networks FirewallsJuniper switchesOpenVPNIPSecTLSAWS Direct ConnectAWS Network Access Control Lists (NACLs)AWS Security GroupsAWS VPCChefAnsibleTerraformRubyGoPythonGitAWSChange Management
About this role
Wealthfront is a company focused on creating a financial system that favors people, not institutions. They are seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to join their Infrastructure team, responsible for managing networking and server hardware, designing network telemetry, and ensuring the reliability of critical services.
Responsibilities:
- Manage our networking and server hardware, topology, and connectivity in our physical data centers and cloud
- Design and build network telemetry, monitoring, and observability
- Build and maintain an automated change management pipeline to deploy network configuration revisions and provision hardware
- Ensure critical services operate reliably by triaging and fixing operational issues as an on-call engineer, participating in post-mortems and implementing improvements to prevent future issues
- Make and collaborate on key decisions regarding the evolution of our infrastructure, such as our hybrid cloud architecture
- Be responsible for liaising with third parties, vendors and internet service providers as well as traveling to our Bay Area and New Jersey data centers and offices for onsite networking projects
Requirements:
- 6+ years of experience with routing and switching in data centers
- Demonstrated experience with Linux systems
- Experience with automating production data center environments, including hardware provisioning, network device configuration, and capacity planning
- Proficiency with Networking protocols such as BGP, MLAG, VLANs, DNS
- Experience with Palo Alto Networks Firewalls, Juniper switches
- Experience with VPN technologies, like OpenVPN, IPSec, TLS
- Experience with AWS Networking technologies like Direct Connect, NACLs, Security Groups, VPC, etc
- Proficiency with automation technology including Chef, Ansible, and Terraform
- Proficiency with at least one language such as Ruby, Go, or Python and configuration management tools such as Git
- Excellent communications and organizational skills
- BS or MS in Engineering or Computer Science or related field, or equivalent professional experience