Network Engineer

RLink Solutions LLC; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Uber's Global Network Infrastructure (GNI) team seeks a contract Network Operations Engineer to support the availability, performance and scalability of Uber's L3 and optical networks across the USA. You'll handle day-to-day operations, join the optical on-call rotation, and work with vendors, carriers and remote hands to keep our production network healthy.

Based in the SF Bay Area and eligible to work as a US contractor, you will monitor, troubleshoot, and coordinate with remote teams,

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on experience operating production networks.
• Experience participating in on-call schedules as an escalation point for service-related issues.
• Hands-on experience with major OTN/DWDM devices (Infinera/Nokia, Ciena or ADVA/Adtran).
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP, BGP and an IGP (IS-IS or OSPF).
• Experience with on-call rotations and incident management.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and maintain availability and performance of the L3 and optical networks.
• Operate and troubleshoot OTN/DWDM equipment (line systems, transponders, ZR optics) from vendors such as Infinera/Nokia, Ciena or ADVA/Adtran.
• Troubleshoot L3 issues, including BGP/IGP, link, capacity and device failures.
• Participate in the optical on-call rotation. Triage and resolve incidents, and escalat[e] to internal teams or vendors as needed.
• Coordinate with remote hands, carriers and vendors for fiber and hardware work in lights-out facilities.
• Provision and maintain device configurations following change management processes.
• Manage and maintain Uber's lab network.

Skills

Production networks

On-call escalation

BGP/IGP

TCP/IP

Python scripting

Tools

OTN/DWDM devices (Infinera/Nokia, Ciena or ADVA/Adtran)

Job description

Job Title: Network Engineer
Location: Sunnyvale/ San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)
Duration: 06+ months

About the Role

Uber's Global Network Infrastructure (GNI) team is hiring a contract Network Operations Engineer to support the availability, performance and scalability of Uber's L3 and optical networks across the USA. You'll handle day-to-day operations, join the optical on-call rotation, and work with vendors, carriers and remote hands to keep our production network healthy.

About the Team

GNI is part of Uber's Platform Engineering organization, which builds the compute, storage and network infrastructure behind Uber's global workloads. Our network spans on-prem data centers, peering points, backbone and cloud providers. We value collaboration, curiosity and a willingness to learn.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and maintain availability and performance of the L3 and optical networks
• Operate and troubleshoot OTN/DWDM equipment (line systems, transponders, ZR optics) from vendors such as Infinera/Nokia, Ciena or ADVA/Adtran
• Troubleshoot L3 issues, including BGP/IGP, link, capacity and device failures
• Participate in the optical on-call rotation. Triage and resolve incidents, and escalat[e] to internal teams or vendors as needed
• Coordinate with remote hands, carriers and vendors for fiber and hardware work in lights-out facilities
• Provision and maintain device configurations following change management processes
• Manage and maintain Uber's lab network

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on experience operating production networks
• Experience participating in on-call schedules as an escalation point for service-related issues (this may require being on call during weekends, but additional pay will be provided)
• Hands-on experience with major OTN/DWDM devices (Infinera/Nokia, Ciena or ADVA/Adtran)
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP, BGP and an IGP (IS-IS or OSPF)
• Experience with on-call rotations and incident management
• Experience working with remote hands, carriers, vendors and distributed teams
• Based in the SF Bay Area and eligible to work as a US contractor

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience provisioning configurations for OTN vendors and hardware
• Experience with large-scale backbone or data center network design and deployment
• Familiarity with Linux and scripting (e.g. Python) for automation

Flexible work from home options available.