Senior Network Engineer

Anaplan - Washington, DC

Full-time - Senior

Washington, DC

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Senior Network Engineer at Anaplan is responsible for leading and directing network architecture and design within a global cloud service provider. This role involves maintaining and operating various network components while prioritizing the creation of scalable and automated solutions. The position requires expertise in networking principles, particularly in large-scale enterprise or cloud service provider networks, and a strong understanding of AWS environments. The engineer will play a crucial role in developing Anaplan's private-cloud network architecture and supporting the global expansion of cloud networks.

Responsibilities

• Be a technical subject-matter expert and point of escalation within the Network team.
• Collaborate with and support Architecture and Engineering teams to define network requirements to achieve organizational objectives.
• Deploy, configure, maintain, troubleshoot, and optimize network infrastructure.
• Collaborate with external vendors and partners to maintain and continue to improve the network.
• Create efficiencies through the implementation of scalable and intelligent network automation solutions.
• Participate in on-call rotations.

Requirements

• At least 5+ years of experience working with a large-scale enterprise network or cloud service provider network.
• Strong knowledge of and working experience with network routing, switching, and firewalling.
• Experience with modern data center network topologies such as spine-and-leaf and overlay networks.
• Expertise in advanced networking principles and concepts, including in-depth knowledge of common protocols such as Ethernet, IP (v4 and v6), TCP, UDP, DNS, IPsec, BGP, VXLAN, EVPN, and HTTPS.
• Strong proficiency in network security and experience working with Palo Alto firewalls.
• Good understanding of AWS cloud environments (Direct connect, transit gateway, VPCs, gateway, etc.).
• Hands-on experience with observability tools like LogicMonitor.
• Experience with VPN technologies.
• Network Virtualization like VRFs, VXLAN.
• Ability to perform in-depth analysis of network performance and application issues using standard diagnostics tools.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience working in a large-scale multinational Managed Service Provider, Enterprise, or Hyper-scaler.
• Experience using and integrating DCIM & IPAM applications, such as Device42, Infoblox, etc, with automation frameworks.
• Knowledge of DC networking technologies such as MLAG, Stacking.
• Experience with cloud providers such as Google Cloud and Azure.
• CCNP, JNCIP-DC, Arista ACE: L3, or similar certification.
• Working knowledge of automation frameworks such as Ansible, Puppet, or Terraform.
• Proficient in working with Linux operating systems.
• Skilled in scripting (Python or Shell) and familiar with CI/CD practices.
• Understand concepts of Infrastructure-as-Code/Software.

Benefits

• Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging initiatives.
• Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities.