Cloud Network Engineer

• Provide overall technical direction and strategic leadership for the delivery of highly available and scalable network infrastructure. This includes edge networking, caching, global backbone, data centre networking, load balancing, and network security across both public and private clouds.
• Take on a lead role in efforts to support and troubleshoot availability, performance, product, and infrastructure issues within production environments.
• Collaborate closely with cloud engineering, SRE, support, and product teams to ensure timely resolution of customer-impacting issues.
• Implement automated configuration and deployment process improving network functionality, availability, and performance.
• Develop infrastructure-as-code across both public and private clouds using industry best practices.
• Analyse and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of network infrastructure using rich telemetry data.

The Senior Cloud Network Engineer plays a pivotal and hands-on role within the Cloud Network team, emphasizing expertise in implementation, administration, support and monitoring for network edge, load balancing, caching and network security across our global enterprise cloud. The ideal candidate is highly collaborative and possesses a profound background in network engineering, troubleshooting, and operational support at enterprise scale., * Solid foundation in networking including routing, switching, security and load balancing.

• Fluency in Azure Cloud Networking with a strong understanding of protocols such as BGP, TCP / IP, DNS, SMTP, HTTP, and routing across globally distributed networks.
• Demonstrable experience in operating multi-regional environments incorporating Azure networking technologies including Azure Virtual WAN, Application Gateway, NAT Gateway, VNet Peering, Azure Firewall Premium, Azure NSG / ASG, Traffic Manager, Front Door, ideally at a global scale.
• Knowledge of load balancing technologies (e.g. F5, AVI).
• Knowledge of network edge security providers (e.g. Akamai, Cloudflare, Imperva).
• Proficiency in one or more automation languages (e.g. PowerShell, shell scripts, Perl, Python, Ansible, Terraform).
• Extensive experience with cloud-based security architectures, tools, policy automation, governance, and application monitoring.
• Experience with observability products including commercial APM tools, ELK stack, Azure monitor, Prometheus, and Grafana. Demonstrated ability to deploy and manage the lifecycle of cloud services.
• Experience with networking / implementing event streaming architectures (e.g. Kafka, RedPanda).
• Strong program and project management experience, demonstrating the ability to identify, prioritize, and successfully execute competing priorities.
• Ability to balance the needs for exceptionally high availability, performance, and scalability while reducing costs. This is a complex set of mandates that helps drive Dayforce's business and product.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills across both technical and non-technical audiences. Ability to lead discussions about complex solution design tradeoffs and drive conflict resolution.
• Ability to thrive and adapt in a fast-paced, high-growth, and rapidly changing environment.
• Certifications from AWS, Azure, or GCP are a bonus.

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