Senior Network Engineer

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It means combining our differences to imagine, discuss, code, develop, test, learn... and celebrate every step together. Share our vibes? Join Swissquote to unleash your potential.

We are the Swiss Leader in Online Banking and we provide trading, investing and banking services to+500'000 clients, through our performant and secured digital platforms.

Our +1000 employees work in a flexible way, without dress code and in multicultural teams.

By having a huge impact on the industry, they are growing their skills portfolio and boosting their career in a fast-pace environment.

We are all in at Swissquote. As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome candidates from all backgrounds, experiences and perspectives to join our team and contribute to our shared success.

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You will join the IT Department's Network and Security team, whose role is to design and operate Datacenter/WAN/Campus network infrastructure for the bank, as well as key security elements like firewalls.

The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in network protocols, network architecture and linux-based network operating system and have a strong appeal for automation.Your expertise will help guide your team to improve their stack and work towards providing Infrastructure as a Service.

With your team, you will work closely with IT architects and Performance Analysts to plan and execute the department's long term technical objective of providing AWS-like cloud capabilities on-prem.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable and programmable datacenter fabric, core network and internet peering.
• Modelize and operate Campus and WAN network.
• Elaborate and implement firewall infrastructure, collaborate with IT Security team to match the company's security needs.
• Automate using frameworks such as Ansible or Terraform.
• Maintain the infrastructure and participate to day-to-day operational tasks, define capacity planning, perform system upgrades and configuration changes.
• Monitor performance, identify issues and implement solutions to prevent downtime.
• Provide advanced troubleshooting and technical support for network/security issues.
• Collaborate with engineers to ensure systems are designed to meet business needs.
• Participate in the on-call shifts.

Minimum Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in IT infrastructure management.
• Proven experience in managing complex network infrastructure, such as EVPN-VXLAN fabric.
• Strong understanding of server infrastructure, cloud computing, and cyber-security.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, capable of working with multi-functional technical and business teams, along with different levels of management to influence decision making.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Linux-based network operating system, such as Cumulus Linux or SONIC.
• Expertise in routing protocols (MP-BGP/OSPF/EIGRP).
• Proven experience in firewalling (Palo Alto/Forcepoint/Fortigate/Checkpoint).
• Proven experience in automating network configuration and reducing toil.
• Proficiency in Python or GO.
• Proven experience dealing wih Kubernetes infrastructure.
• Comfortable with Infrastructure as Code tooling (Ansible, Terraform, Git, etc...).

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