Senior Network Engineer – (SONiC)

The Senior Technology Engineer role will be accountable to implement, design and build the platform along with all associated components from inception to maturity of the running environment over time. Build and maintain ENBD SDN-Fabric network using on Enterprise Sonic and Legacy networking. Our stack is Cisco, Sonic and Cumulus.

The job holder will be responsible for driving change and delivering new technology into the Bank by onboarding customers and applications to the platform via self-service and automation.

Working closely with other platform and product teams in educating them on the new platforms, services and features to ensure any transition and consumption is optimal. Agile, DevOps & Product Management methodologies, delivering work packages based on the priority in the backlog.

Required Qualifications:

• At least 8 years total engineering or operational experience
• At least 3 relevant years of experience in a similar role.
• Experience within large and complex global enterprises defined by high availability, transaction rates, and geographical distribution.
• Good communication and articulation skills
• The candidate should ideally have a track record of building Sonic Network for enterprise organization and describe in detail how it was built, or an extensive network administration experience as well as experience in building SDN-Fabric Networks using automation.
• Expertise in infrastructure, systems administration, design and engineering, with a cloud computing and DevOps focus
• Current experience with contemporary and innovative solutions
• Understanding of the long term IT Strategy and ability to work towards that with each project.
• Functional and technical understanding of critical systems and Banking services.
• Strong understanding of the technical risks, security, compliance and audit requirements.
• Maintaining a strategic stance over tactical fixes
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex vendor and supplier relationships
• Proven experience in contributing to and executing technology service development plans or roadmaps
• Advanced understanding of telemetry protocols: syslog, SNMP, gRPC, Netflow, S-flow, SSH polling and templating and others.
• Understanding of telemetry protocols: syslog, SNMP, gRPC, Netflow, S-flow and others.
• Experience in network administration and expert understanding of modern network concepts and protocols: routing, switching, Wi-Fi, WAN optimization, BGP, OSFP, MP-BGP, EVPN, VLAN, VXLAN, spanning tree.
• Track record of using Python, Ansible or other open source tools for network automation.
• Expert in Enterprise Sonic SDN-Networks and Legacy Networking.