Network And Cloud Engineer

Network and Cloud Engineer, Paymentus

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

Join our team of highly accomplished technical professionals implementing the latest in technologies ranging from cloud-hybrid data centers to data center switching to private multi-overlay wide-area interconnects to profile-based secured wired and wireless user access.

Build and support our cloud hybrid network of several AWS accounts, on-prem locations, and vendor extranets using very resilient direct connectivity and the latest AWS network transit services in our efforts to adopt cloud-first as a solution philosophy for our numerous applications both for internal teams and for our millions of customers.

This position will provide top tier engineering and troubleshooting for the Paymentus corporate and production data network devices and services. We are looking for a detail oriented and highly organized individual, who follows best practices for network engineering and strives for strategic vision in the design, planning and implementation of network services.

Projects Implementation:

• Provide advanced technical leadership for complex project work, including functional subsystem upgrades for mission-critical network devices and services as well as strategic upgrades to the network core

• Supply advanced technical direction and leadership to junior members of the networking team through the planning and implementation processes

• Establish requirements, provide analysis for network and services specifications, network design, network partitioning, and network architecture definition

• Provide advanced expertise in the development of network test, validation, and integration plans on projects, and ensure maintenance of network integrity throughout project development

Network Operations:

• Maintaining daily operational responsibility for reliability of Paymentus corporate and production networks

• Manages enterprise network systems and services to an operational uptime of 99.95%

• Responsible for design and implementation of network services and performs network testing and evaluation testing on a regular basis

• Conducts advanced enterprise-level performance tuning as well as network performance audits on a regular basis

• Monitors ongoing availability of network services and processes.

• Validate that production network configurations are functioning as required by validating log flows, event threshold settings, and alarm notification settings

• Participates in network team on-call rotation by responding to network-related alerts.

Qualifications

• A commitment to improving processes and to customer satisfaction
• Advanced knowledge of network monitoring and performance tools for networks, including for cloud network infrastructure
• Must be a detail oriented and highly organized individual, follow best practices for network engineering and strive for strategic vision in the design, planning and implementation of network services
• Architectures such as VPC multi-tier, multi-az public/private subnetting, NLB/ALBs, Egress-only IGW, Check Point and Fortigate physical and virtual firewalls with threat prevention, Security Groups, Direct Connect, VPN, IPv6
• Automation such as using CloudFormation and Terraform via git to push Infrastructure as Code whenever possible
• Services such as Control Tower, Serverless Transit Network Orchestrator, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, Lambda, Route 53
• Practical experience related to LAN, WAN, and VPN connectivity in a hybrid-cloud data center environment would be tremendously helpful in this role
• Bachelor's degree in Computer/Network Engineering or related field; six to eight years as a data network specialist that includes two to three recent years of experience in AWS in a medium to large enterprise network; or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Experience using Linux as an advanced user / systems administrator with bash / shell scripting knowledge
• Familiarity with FortiNAC implementation or experience implementing a NAC solution is beneficial
• Strategic thinker, strong interest and aptitude in collaborative big picture, enterprise-wide network infrastructure roadmaps
• Proficient hands on experience and understanding of fundamental networking concepts and protocols including IP subnetting
• Experience specific to automation for cloud networking build & configuration in AWS is the primary skill set we are looking for more of:
• Working knowledge of AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)
• A results-oriented team player who will work towards meeting team commitments and has the ability to work collaboratively within a cross-functional team
• Good working knowledge of networking protocols and constructs such as TCP, UDP, IP, VLAN, VRF, BGP, OSPF, STP, MST, PVST
• Demonstrated expertise with switching and routing protocols such as MPLS, BGP, and OSPF
• Experience with the public cloud network infrastructure of GCP is a plus.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, especially regarding taking requirements from application owners, developers and consumers of the cloud network and translating them into networking specifications for implementation and into non-technical verbiage for summary to leadership

EEO Statement

Paymentus is an equal opportunity employer. We enthusiastically accept our responsibility to make employment decisions without regard to actual or perceived race, creed, color, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), gender identity or gender expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, religion, marital status, physical or mental disability, military service or veteran status, genetic information, protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable federal, state, and local laws and ordinances. Our management is dedicated to ensuring the fulfillment of this policy with respect to hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, termination, recruitment advertising, pay, and other forms of compensation, training, access to facilities and programs and general treatment during employment.