Senior Network Engineer

Depuis nos bureaux situés à Paris et à Lille, nous perfectionnons quotidiennement l'écosystème cloud de Scaleway, dont nous sommes les premiers utilisateurs.

At Scaleway, Network Reliability Engineers (Network SRE) are highly independent and self-organized individual contributors who make packets flow in right directions. As a Senior Network Reliability Engineer, you will develop and maintain our always growing network to provide the best bandwidth to our customers.  

Minimum Qualifications

• You’ve been engineering networks for some considerable time  
• You know how TCP/IP, Ethernet, BGP, MPLS, IPv6, and all these things work beyond the level of a vendor certified config copy-paster  
• You’ve heard something about IP Fabrics and EVPN  
• You have your own point of view on the SDN buzz; the difference between automation and orchestration looks rather clear for you  
• Your are not scared of DWDM, multiplexers, transponders, amplifiers and fiber optics in general  
• You are also not afraid of code. Not necessarily at a professional developer level but when there is a need to RTFS or sort an array, you know what to do
• You are familiar with the latest trends in the networking industry: new protocols, last RFCs, key actors etc
• Very good command of English

Technical Environment

•  Half a dozen of datacenters in several countries  
• Near 150k physical servers  
• 10+ Tbps of Internet backbone capacity  
• A lot of custom hardware, including network  
• A bit (a few thousands) of traditional vendor devices as well  
• REST APIs  
• A lot of Python  
• Linux in all possible variations  

Responsibilities

• Maintain and grow our rapidly growing backbone and DC  network infrastructure: deployments, upgrades, migrations, peering sessions etc 
• Design and develop new architectures  
• Be always motivated to learn and test new technologies  
• Hunt for new knowledge and contribute to the team's continuous self-education  
• Communicate with other teams to prepare new deployments  
• Communicate with external parties: vendors, partners, network experts all over the world  
• Contribute to the network monitoring improvement  
• Tune performance, flexibility, and maintainability of the network  
• Create and maintain documentation and procedures to ensure scalability, manageability, stability and security of the network  
• Little things here and there: troubleshoot ISIS, reproduce a bug, add prepends to a BGP route etc  

This position is based in our offices in Paris, Lille or Toulouse (France)

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