Senior Network Operations Engineer, Sovereign Operations

Google Inc.; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in London is seeking a Senior Network Operations Engineer to manage and secure private cloud services. Candidates should have over 6 years of experience in IP networking and designing resilient networks, along with eligibility for UK security clearance. This role involves engaging in the lifecycle of secure networks, supporting engineering teams, and working with cutting-edge technologies in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 6 years of experience with IP Networking.
• Eligibility to obtain UK Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance.
• Experience designing secure and resilient networks.

Responsibilities

• Engage and improve lifecycle of secure networks.
• Assist in building integration and software automation.
• Work cross-functionally for product introductions.

Skills

IP Networking

Network Protocols

Border Gateway Protocol

Network Troubleshooting

Cloud Networking

Software Defined Networking

Automation

Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Senior Network Operations Engineer, Sovereign Operations

London, UK

Mid

Experience driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area.

Apply

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Networking, Information Security or a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience with IP Networking, Internet Service Providers, Network Protocols, Border Gateway Protocol, or Network Troubleshooting.
• Experience designing and implementing secure and resilient networks using multiple technologies.
• Eligibility to obtain UK Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance; British Citizenship is required for this role.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with scalable cloud networking concepts (such as Load Balancers, Firewalls) and web standards (such as REST APIs, web security mechanisms).
• Experience managing or directing field operation technicians, engineers, and extended workforces in a telecommunications environment.
• Experience with software defined networking, scripting and automation, network architecture, or MPLS L3 VPN.
• Experience in large-scale network infrastructure design and management, including knowledge of routing protocols such as BGP, OSPF, MPLS, and overlay technologies.
• Excellent partner management, follow-through, resourcefulness, attention to detail, and communication skills.
• Active Developed Vetting (DV) UK security clearance.

About the job

The UK Sovereign Operations team in Google Public Sector delivers, operates and secures private cloud services. We aim to provide the flexibility, reliability, and scalability of public cloud for customers with exceptionally high security requirements that can only be met in a private cloud environment. We deliver and operate these private cloud deployments for the most critical customers, helping scale, secure and maintain the deployment and working closely with Google product teams to continually improve our technology.

As a Network Operations Engineer, you will be part of a team of engineers that deploys and operates our private cloud services and underlying networks for critical customers in the United Kingdom. You will design and operate reliable and resilient networks, automate changes, implement monitoring, and manage core network components. Your work will span both traditional networking as well as software-defined networking in a Kubernetes environment. You will work alongside peers in Infrastructure Engineering, and will learn to troubleshoot common infrastructure problems. You will keep the internal and cloud-hosted services up and running, and be responsible for configuring and maintaining networking infrastructure from inception and design to validation, deployment, operation. You will participate in an on-call rotation to ensure incidents can be resolved.

Responsibilities

• Engage and improve the whole life-cycle of private/secure networks from inception and design, to qualification and validation, through deployment, operation.
• Assist engineering and operations teams in building an ecosystem of integration, software automation to within private/secure networks.
• Work cross-functionally to design, develop, and validate product introductions of network and computing hardware, solutions, and technologies.
• Provide technical implementation and operational support in customer environments, including guidance on implementation feasibility of cross-product integrations.

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