Infrastructure Engineer (VP )- Banking client- 2 Days onsite

GCS; England; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading infrastructure solutions provider in the UK seeks an experienced Infrastructure Engineer specializing in Production Network Engineering. The ideal candidate should have extensive experience in designing and operating Telco hardened virtual ecosystems such as OpenStack and Kubernetes, alongside a strong understanding of open-source networking technologies. Responsibilities include building infrastructure platforms and ensuring their reliability, scalability, and security.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in design, build and operation of Telco hardened virtual infrastructure.
• Deep understanding of open-source networking technologies and protocols.
• Experience in multi-layered IP Network engineering and automation.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain infrastructure platforms supporting applications and data systems.
• Ensure reliability, availability, and scalability of systems through software engineering techniques.

Skills

Telco hardened virtual infrastructure design

Open-source networking technologies

Network programming/automation

DevOps methodologies

Tools

OpenStack

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Purpose of the role

To build and maintain infrastructure platforms and products that support applications and data systems, using hardware, software, networks, and cloud computing platforms as required with the aim of ensuring that the infrastructure is reliable, scalable, and secure. Ensure the reliability, availability, and scalability of the systems, platforms, and technology through the application of software engineering techniques, automation, and best practices in incident response.

To be successful in this role as an Infrastructure Engineer - Production Network Engineering, you should possess the following skillsets:

• Extensive experience as an individual contributor in the design, build and operate of Telco hardened virtual infrastructure ecosystems for example Openstack, Kubernetes, QEMU, KVM, HCI spanning Cloud Platforms such as Public, Edge, Private and uCPE Platforms for example x86, Arm CPU architectures to enable the delivery of heterogeneous network systems, products and services at enterprise scale
• Deep understanding of open-source networking technologies for example kernel (including eBPF, AF_XDP), OVS, OVN, SoNIC, DENT, Switchdev, ONF stack, Iwd, NetworkManager, including data path acceleration protocols and interfaces such as RDMA, RoCE, iWARP, NVMe, SR-IOV and DPDK, alongside familiarity with Cloud Native Functions and Container Networking Interface plugins
• Experience in multi-layered IP Network engineering including good experience in network programming / automation, IaC, configuration management tools and data modelling for example RESTCONF, NETCONF/YANG, Python, Shell, Ansible, Saltstack, Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM; with demonstrable experience of DevOps, agile methodologies and CI/CD pipelines

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