Senior Network Site Reliability Engineer

Location: Israel, Yokneam

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

NVIDIA has been transforming computer graphics, PC gaming, and accelerated computing for more than 25 years. It’s a unique legacy of innovation that’s fuelled by great technology—and amazing people. Today, we’re tapping into the unlimited potential of AI to define the next era of computing. An era in which our GPU acts as the brains of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can understand the world. Doing what’s never been done before takes vision, innovation, and the world’s best talent. As an NVIDIAN, you’ll be immersed in a diverse, supportive environment where everyone is inspired to do their best work. Come join the team and see how you can make a lasting impact on the world.

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Network Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Staff/Sr Staff level to join our Enterprise Network Operations SRE team in Israel . In this role, you will be pivotal in implementing our vision for a reliable and efficient network infrastructure. The ideal candidate is passionate about network operations and committed to enhancing the user experience. You'll have the opportunity to solve complex network challenges using hands-on debugging and by focusing on network automation, observability, documentation, and operational excellence.

What you’ll be doing:

• Owning the operational aspect of the network infrastructure, ensuring its high availability and reliability, actively working on network incidents and service requests.
• Partnering with architecture and deployment teams to guarantee that new implementations are supportable and align with production standards.
• Minimizing manual operational tasks to achieve and maintain Service Level Objectives (SLOs). Advocating for and implementing automation to reduce toil and improve operational efficiency.
• Monitoring network performance, identifying areas for improvement, and collaborating with relevant teams to implement refinements.
• Collaborating with domain experts across functions to resolve production issues swiftly and effectively, ensuring customer happiness.
• Discovering opportunities for operational improvements and teaming up with colleagues to devise solutions that enhance excellence and sustainability in network operations.
• Proactively identifying and mitigating network risks to promote continuous improvement.
• Conducting blameless postmortems and following through on Root Cause Analyses (RCAs).
• Developing knowledge base articles for automation and bots.

What we need to see:

• Educational Background: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Science or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• A minimum of 10 years of industry practice in network operations or related fields concentrating on support, automation & site reliability engineering. Familiarity with both enterprise and the data center networks is critical.
• Strong proficiency in network fundamentals & fixing complex network issues with expertise in network tech like TCP/UDP, IPv4/IPv6, BGP, OSPF, ISIS, VPN, L2 switching, Firewalls, Load Balancers, Data Center Network technologies, Wireless etc. Consistent track record in network operations.
• Monitoring Tools: Familiarity with network management tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Telemetry, Alert Manager, Nautobot/Netbox, BigPanda.
• Network Automation: Experience in automating networks using frameworks such as Salt, Ansible, Python or similar.
• Process & Service Tooling: Skills with , Jira & foundational knowledge of ITIL framework
• System Administration: Knowledge of Linux system fundamentals.
• Problem-Solving and Communication: Detailed problem-solving approach, critical thinking, coupled with good interpersonal skills and a solid grasp of ownership and drive.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Support Automation: Track record of taking operational signals through means such as SNMP, Syslog, Streaming Telemetry to solve operational challenges.
• Platform Exposure: Experience with Mellanox/Cumulus Linux, Cisco/ Arista, Palo Alto firewalls, Versa SDWAN, Netscalers and F5 load balancers.
• Technical Proficiency in Programming and Scripting: Competence in Python, Go, or related programming languages. Skilled in constructing intricate systems to supervise and regulate network operations, surpassing elementary script development.
• Network Technologies: Proficient knowledge of one or more of the following technologies: VXLAN/EVPN at Scale / MPLS, RSVP, Segment Routing / SDWAN / SASE Platforms