Sr. Network Engineer

$177,480 - $229,680/Yr

Disney - Emeryville, CA

Full-time - Senior

Emeryville, CA

Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries

About the position

The Senior Network Engineer at Pixar Animation Studios is a critical role focused on maintaining and enhancing the network infrastructure that supports the creation of world-class animated films. This position requires a highly skilled and motivated professional who can tackle diverse technical challenges and innovate within a dynamic environment. The engineer will work closely with a dedicated systems team to ensure network stability and operational excellence, while also staying current with emerging technologies to continually improve the network environment.

Responsibilities

• Provides day-to-day network maintenance including installation, configuration, operation, and troubleshooting of wide- and local-area networks and network equipment.
• Manage and troubleshoot Wired, Wireless and VPN connectivity to users and systems.
• Monitor, analyze, and report metrics of network services.
• Research, design and implement security solutions for network infrastructure.
• Produce and maintain documentation of all switching and routing equipment and networks, connected network devices and cabling interconnects.
• Define and document standard operating procedures and maintenance schedules for network devices.
• Provide root cause analysis for critical issues.
• Participate in rotation of off-hours on-call support.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in network management and troubleshooting.
• Background in Arista, Aruba, Juniper and Palo Alto Networks routing/switching and firewall configuration, or similar.
• In-depth understanding of BGP, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, Enterprise Wireless, and L2 technologies.
• Proficiency with diagnostic and performance monitoring tools such as Cacti, Zabbix, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, Kibana, or similar.
• Expertise in deploying and maintaining physical servers, networking equipment, and other hardware components in both data center environments and customer endpoints.
• Experience with config management / provisioning automation (e.g. Ansible, Puppet, Chef).
• Experience with VMware vSwitches and port groups.
• IPv6 experience.
• Experience implementing 802.1x.

Benefits

• Competitive salary range of $177,480.00 to $229,680.00 per year based on experience and skills.