Senior Network Engineer

Zillow - City of Industry, CA

Full-time - Senior

City of Industry, CA

Real Estate

About the position

Join our dynamic network engineering team, a pivotal force behind Zillow Network's automation, maintenance, and management. This team ensures the seamless operation of Core network services, Network Monitoring tools, and Security infrastructure. Tasked with maintaining and automating 100% of the Network operations, we strive for innovative solutions to enhance the global end-user experience. With a mission to maximize uptime and build a next-generation, innovative, and self-healing network automation platform, we seek passionate individuals to join us in achieving and surpassing these ambitious goals. As a Sr. Network Engineer, you'll be at the forefront of network infrastructure management and development, collaborating closely with expert network architects and engineers. Your role involves monitoring and supporting the network infrastructure, automating repetitive tasks, optimizing efficiency, and exploring new cloud services and tools. You will directly influence our operational approach by bringing your experience and expertise, with the aim to iteratively enhance our network's reliability, cost-efficiency, and security.

Responsibilities

• Support successful implementation of network automation projects, focusing on enhancing capacity, scaling, performance, and security.
• Conduct research, design, implement and document Network infrastructure automation solutions, and build standard practices across enterprise operations that enhance the operations and cost structures of the production environment.
• Support seamless operations of network and security infrastructure, equipment, services, and monitoring tools.
• Provide technical input to the overall architectural and operational discussions around network infrastructure, automation and tools.
• Participate in and suggest improvements to standards configuration, change management processes and practices.
• Develop test plans, implementation plans, and project timelines for various projects and tasks.
• Act as a network developer to create innovative solutions and write Python and Ansible code on a daily basis.
• Proactively identify and resolve key technical issues.
• Stay up to date with the latest DevOps technologies and best practices.
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation and provide incident response support as needed.
• Perform other reasonable duties as required for this position.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical field, or equivalent certification.
• 7+ years of experience as a Network Engineer with a focus on designing, implementing and troubleshooting complex networking solutions.
• Proficiency in IPv6 and network automation using tools such as Ansible, Python, Terraform, and others.
• Experience with cloud security (eg, AWS, Azure, GCP) and infrastructure automation across multi-cloud environments.
• Demonstrated ability to work with DevOps, CI/CD, Agile methodologies, cloud-native deployment tooling and a test-driven culture.
• Strong foundation in networking (Juniper/Cisco and non-Cisco) technologies, with a keen interest in automating network operations.
• Ability to travel 10-20% of the time.

Nice-to-haves

• Certifications in network/security technologies (eg, CCNP, CISSP, Cisco DevNet, JNCIP).
• Certification in cloud providers - AWS, GCP (eg, AWS Advanced Networking Specialty, AWS Security Specialty, AWS Solutions Architect Associate etc).
• Experience with large scale AWS networking, IPv6, SASE/SSE, Juniper firewalls, and Infrastructure as Code for cloud network components.
• Knowledge of Linux platforms, container technologies (Kubernetes, Docker), and interfacing with cloud infrastructure via APIs.
• A proactive approach to problem-solving, with a track record of identifying and addressing performance bottlenecks and improvement areas.
• Experience in researching emerging technologies and trends, standards, and products and synthesizing into clear technology roadmaps and strategies.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Equity awards based on factors such as experience, performance and location