Network Engineer, Security Service Edge

$117,000 - $153,000/Yr

Check Point Software Technologies - Redwood City, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Redwood City, CA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Network Engineer, Security Service Edge role at Check Point Software Technologies involves investigating complex production issues, enhancing system resilience, and supporting customer-facing teams with technical investigations and implementations. The position focuses on automating processes to reduce workload and improve stability, ensuring high availability and performance of network services.

Responsibilities

• Perform advanced troubleshooting of complex network problems and recurring platform issues
• Lead investigation and collaborate with other group experts to investigate complex cross-function production issues
• Design, build, and maintain core infrastructure that enables growth
• Maintain 100% Monitoring coverage, including building monitoring strategy that alerts on symptoms rather than on outages
• Reduce workload and improve uptime and SLA response time by implementing automation processes for production issues
• Act as the RandD extension in North America supporting production critical issues during North American business hours
• Support Account Managers and Customer Success team with complex implementations/strategic implementations

Requirements

• Strong Experience with networking technologies and protocols (TCP/IP, LAN, NAT, BGP, VPN, DNS, iSCSI)
• Exceptional troubleshooting skills
• Demonstrated autonomy, motivation, and self-management skills in the workplace
• Working experience with Linux system administration
• Working experience with Bash, Python
• Working Experience with coding complex automation and runbooks

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with observability and monitoring systems (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)
• Experience in large-scale network and system engineering environments (ISP, Cloud Providers)
• Experience with AWS
• Experience with Configuration Management and IaC tools (Ansible, Terraform)
• Current or previous CCNP / CCNA / JNCIP Certification
• Good familiarity with virtualization environments (Proxmox, OpenStack)
• Proficiency with virtualized and containerized environments (ECS / Kubernetes)
• Experience with Hashicorp tools (Consul, Vault, Nomad) - An advantage
• AWS Certification (Solutions Architect , DevOps , etc)

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Annual bonus or sales incentive based on performance
• Comprehensive health insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Paid time off and holidays
• Professional development opportunities