APPLICATION DELIVERY NETWORK ENGINEER
Overview
We are looking for candidates to work with skilled engineers across a number of teams and geographic locations.
As a senior member of the team, you ideal candidate be leading technical directions, working closely with other teams within and without Platform Engineering and Cyber Security area (Network team, Architects, application development teams). Also will be responsible to engage directly with senior stakeholders and socialize the tools and services provided by Application Delivery team to the wider IT team through showcases and workshops. The candidate will act as a mentor for members of your team as well as developers from other teams and be proactive in defining and promoting best practices and will act as a point of reference also for external technical stakeholders leading the technical analysis for services integration and tools external exposure.
Specific Skills
- 3 years of experience working in medium or large companies:
- 3+ year experience with network load balancing systems design and implementation (F5 BigIP platform). This is mandatory;
- Good knowledge of written and spoken English;
- Excellent knowledge of TCP/IP networking and routing concepts and HTTP/HTTPS protocol details;
- Excellent knowledge with DNS concepts and experience in DNS implementation;
- Excellent knowledge of SSL certificate workflow;
- 3+ year experience with HTTP/HTTPS proxy, reverse proxy, and cache systems design and implementation (Apache Traffic Server, HAProxy, NGINX);
- Experience with Identity Provider integration and authentication protocols (SAML, LDAP, Kerberos,…);
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills;
- Excellent organizational skills;
- Good background in Linux systems;
- The following will be considered as a plus;
- Experience with high-traffic E-Commerce platforms;
- Familiarity in AWS services and technologies (AWS Solution Architect certification preferred – Associate level);
- Experience with Akamai (or other CDN provider) services;
- Knowledge of modern Configuration Management tools (Ansible, Chef);
- Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation);
- Knowledge of monitoring and logging tools (Grafana, Kibana, Dynatrace);
- Knowledge of CI/CD platforms (Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub,...) and experience in managing pipeline for Infrastructure as Code and configuration management;
- Excellent scripting skills (Bash, Python, Ruby, php, NodeJS);
- Agile methodology and DevOps principles.
Responsible For
- Provision and maintain Load Balancer both in on-prem and cloud scenario and work with application development teams to implement and update configurations;
- Work closely with application development teams and the performance guild to ensure Application Delivery systems are well understood and configurations are properly designed and implemented;
- Work closely with Architects and Cyber Security teams in order to ensure Application Delivery systems are properly designed and they are compliant with guidelines forscalability, reliability, availability and security;
- Provision and maintain CDN and work with application development teams to implement and update configurations;
- Provision and maintain Proxies both in on-prem and cloud scenario;
- Configure and maintain public DNS;
- Create, monitor and renew public and private certificates;
- Design, implement and maintain automations related to provisioning and configurations deployment; you will have a focus on reducing the toil in team’s activities tackling repetitive task through the usage of automation;
- Review junior team members work and provide mentoring and pairing time;
- Work with application development teams, Architects, Cyber Security and brand teams (external) to define and implement solutions to integrate services and expose internal tools, assuring compliance with InfoSec guidelines;
- Work with Monitoring and NOC teams to define and implement monitoring and support procedures for Application Delivery systems.