Network Engineer, Sr.Staff - Data Center Network Architect

Company:

Qualcomm Incorporated

Job Area:

Information Technology Group, Information Technology Group > IT Networking

General Summary:

Join our dynamic Data Center Network team and be at the forefront of crafting our next-generation hyper-scale network infrastructure. We're on the lookout for passionate innovators who thrive on building sophisticated, large-scale systems designed for peak performance and unwavering reliability. With your extensive experience in distributed systems architecture and networking, you'll collaborate closely with our visionary network architects to bring Qualcomm's future network vision to life.

In this role, you'll engage with vendors, draft compelling RFPs, qualify cutting-edge software and hardware, and develop groundbreaking solutions. You'll also have the opportunity to influence other Infrastructure teams, shape hardware design decisions, and provide comprehensive integration plans. This is a unique chance to be part of a small, elite group of engineers who play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Qualcomm's network. If you're ready to make a significant impact and drive innovation, we want to hear from you!

Responsibilities

• Architect, design, implement and operate Qualcomm's global data center networks
• Design, implement and operate Qualcomm's local and global load balancing architectures
• Develop and maintain technical documentation
• Adhere to corporate change management policies and practices
• Lead evaluations and implement new technologies
• Mentor junior engineers, support teams, and customers
• Troubleshoot complex and high-risk data center networks and load balanced applications
• Perform on-call responsibilities
• Perform upgrades, enhancements and configuration changes as needed
• Provide support for Qualcomm's global data center networks
• Provide networking and load balancing support for Qualcomm's data center applications, servers and various operating systems.
• Work with cross-departmental and cross-functional teams
• Learn and deploy next-generation networking technologies
• Closely collaborate with NetOps/DevOps team on network automation and orchestration

Industry Standard network certification

Keywords

CCNP, CCIE, Data Center, Ansible, Nexus, Arista, Citrix, Virtualization, VXLAN, Orchestration, Kubernetes, EVPN, GPU, BGP

Minimum Qualifications:

• 7+ years of Networked Systems-related work experience with a Bachelor's degree.
OR
9+ years of Networked Systems-related work experience without a Bachelor’s degree.

Physical Requirements:
• Frequently transports and installs equipment up to 20 lbs.

Required:

• 8+ years of experience working in large heterogeneous networking environments
• 5+ years of working experience designing and implementing leaf and spine data center networks
• 2+ years of working experience with application delivery controllers including: Local and Global (GSLB) load balancers
  • Expert level knowledge of PKI/SSL, SSL Offload, and DNS as it relates to application load balancing
  • Experience with HAProxy/NGINX, AWS ELB/ALB, OpenStack or Kubernetes load balancing a plus
• Expert level knowledge and experience with protocols/technologies such as OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, STP, QoS, vPC/MLAG/CLAG, VXLAN
• Experience and expertise with TCP/IP operations and troubleshooting
• Experience with individual, group and vendor-assisted troubleshooting
• Experience working in data center IT operations and high-risk networks
• Working experience with Windows, Linux, and VMware

Preferred:

• Experience with HPC Grid data center environments
• Experience in GPU ethernet network architecture and design
• Experience in NetDevOps

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$148,000.00 - $222,000.00

The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm.  We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus).  In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer – and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.

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