Senior Network Operations Engineer, Sovereign Operations
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MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Networking, Information Security, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 6 years of experience with IP networking, internet service providers, L2-L7 network protocols, border gateway protocol, or network troubleshooting.
- Experience with designing and implementing resilient, secure networks using a wide range of technologies.
- Active, or the ability to obtain, a Developed Vetting (DV) UK security clearance.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience deploying and operating production workloads in Kubernetes.
- Experience with scalable cloud networking concepts (such as Load Balancers, Firewalls) and web standards (such as REST APIs, web security mechanisms).
- Experience managing or directing field operation technicians, engineers, and extended workforces in a telecommunications environment.
- Experience with Software Defined Networking, scripting and automation, network architecture, or MPLS L3 VPN.
- Excellent partner management, follow-through, resourcefulness, attention to detail, and verbal and written communication skills.
- Current and active UK Security Check (SC) or UK Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance.
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ABOUT THE JOB:
The United Kingdom Sovereign Operations team in Google Public Sector delivers, operates and secures private cloud services. We aim to provide the flexibility, reliability, and scalability of public cloud for customers with high security requirements that can only be met in a private cloud environment. We deliver and operate these private cloud deployments for the most critical customers, helping scale, secure and maintain the deployment and working closely with Google product teams to continually improve our technology.
As a Network Operations Engineer, you will be part of a team of engineers that deploys and operates our private cloud services and underlying networks for critical customers in the UK. You will design and operate reliable and resilient networks, automate changes, implement monitoring, and manage core network components. Your work will span both traditional networking as well as software-defined networking in a Kubernetes environment. You will work alongside peers in Infrastructure Engineering, and will learn to troubleshoot common infrastructure problems. You will be the glue that keeps internal and cloud-hosted services up and running, and be responsible for configuring and maintaining networking infrastructure from inception and design to validation, deployment, operation, and optimization.
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RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Engage and improve the whole life cycle of private/secure networks from inception and design, to qualification and validation, through deployment, operation and optimization.
- Assist Engineering and Operations teams in building an ecosystem of integration, empowering software automation to scale within private/secure networks.
- Work cross-functionally to design, develop, and validate product introductions of network and computing hardware, solutions, and technologies.
- Provide highly technical implementation and operational support in customer environments, including guidance on implementation feasibility of cross-product integrations.
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