Staff Network Engineer Backbone & Cloud at PayPal

Bengaluru, karnataka, India -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

15 Apr, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

15 Jan, 26

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Network Engineering, Cloud Networking, Infrastructure as Code, Terraform, Kubernetes, F5 LTM, Security, VPN, Palo Alto, Fortinet, Load Balancers, Monitoring Tools, Troubleshooting, BGP, MPLS, Juniper

Industry

Software Development

Description

Lead the configuration, maintenance, and optimization of the organization's network and security infrastructure to ensure high performance and reliability. Architect and integrate networks across multiple business units and diverse cloud environments, ensuring seamless connectivity and scalability. Champion the use of Infrastructure as Code processes to automate and maintain infrastructure consistency, scalability, and up-to-date configurations. Oversee the configuration, deployment, and management of F5 Local Traffic Managers (LTMs) and Advanced Security Modules (ASMs) to ensure seamless application delivery and security. Create and implement strategies for integrating cloud Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs), interconnects, and direct connects, ensuring efficient and secure data flow between on-premises and cloud environments. Proactively identify opportunities to enhance the network's scalability and resilience, ensuring it can handle growing business demands and traffic loads. Work closely with infrastructure, application, and security teams to ensure network designs meet cross-functional requirements and adhere to best practices. 5+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience. Proficiency with leading public cloud providers network services -AWS and GCP is a must, and experience with Azure is desirable. Deep hands-on experience with Terraform for network automation, infrastructure provisioning, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud resource lifecycle management. Strong experience with open-source load balancers, especially HAProxy, including configuration, tuning, observability, and deployment automation. Experience with Kubernetes networking, including Ingress, Service Mesh, CNI plugins. Deep hands-on expertise in cloud networking: VPC Network, Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect Gateway, Interconnect, Cloud Router, VPN, and firewall rules (Security Groups, GCP Firewall). PrivateLink and Private Service Connect (PSC) for secure and scalable service exposure. Use Infrastructure as Code processes to automate and maintain infrastructure consistency, scalability, and up-to-date configurations. Implement and manage network security controls using Palo Alto and Fortinet firewalls, VPNs, etc in public Cloud environments. Strong understanding of networking protocols and technologies, including TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, MPLS, DNS, VPN. Utilize network monitoring tools (e.g. LogicMonitor, Datadog, AWS Cloudwatch, Splunk, Catchpoint, Nagios, etc.) to proactively identify and resolve network issues. Implement network changes following established change management procedures, minimizing risk and ensuring minimal impact to production services. Participate in incident management processes, including troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews. Adhere to security policies, procedures, and best practices, ensuring the network infrastructure meets all compliance requirements. Implement and continually improve operational procedures, systems, and network engineering best practices. Provide Tier 2 support for network incidents impacting our production systems, ensuring timely resolution and minimal disruption to service. This includes on-call rotation responsibilities. Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills. Relevant AWS and/or GCP Networking certifications Experience with container networking (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker). Experience configuring, managing, and troubleshooting Juniper routing and switching platforms, including Juniper MX and QFX series Working knowledge of networking technologies, including Layer-2 and Layer-3 protocols (TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF/IS-IS, MPLS) operating global backbone Hands-on experience managing Backbone traffic engineering (MPLS, RSVP-TE, Segment Routing), public peering with ISPs, CDNs and partners. Juniper Service Provider certifications (JNCIS / JNCIP) are highly desirable

Responsibilities

Lead the configuration, maintenance, and optimization of the organization's network and security infrastructure. Oversee the deployment and management of network services to ensure high performance and reliability.