Senior Network Engineer (Data Center Networking) - Cork, Ireland

Company:

QT Technologies Ireland Limited

Job Area:

Information Technology Group, Information Technology Group > IT Networking

General Summary:

About The Role

Qualcomm offers flexible work options tailored to our employee’s needs. These include a combination of work from home and working in our brand new, state of the art office in Penrose Dock, Cork. Well-being and life balance are fundamental to Qualcomm as an employer.  We recognise and understand that employees have missed spending quality time with loved ones and extended family. As such, Cork Qualcomm policy allows our employees to blend short-term remote working with annual leave.

Job Function

This is a senior position on the data center networking team responsible for architecture, design, and implementation of Qualcomm's world-wide data center networks and load balancing architectures. We are looking for an expert in current data center networking and load balancing technologies, including but not limited to routing, switching, application delivery control/load balancing, cloud networking (public and private), virtualization, orchestration, and automation.

This position is expected to be a technology evangelist and advocate regarding forward-looking data center networking technologies such as cloud networking, network virtualization, and automation.

Skills/Experience

Required:

• 5+ 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 with tools such as Ansible and/or Python automation

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

Education Requirements

Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Engineering/Computer Science/Information Technology or equivalent experience
Industry Standard network certification

Keywords

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

Where you will be working

Cork has a proud reputation as Ireland's second largest economic engine and is now one of the Top 20 location choices in Europe with 39,000 people being employed by over 170 overseas companies.
There's a growing diversity in the region with people from many nationalities relocating to Cork, relishing the opportunity to work and live in a location that offers an excellent quality of life.
A gateway to Europe, Cork airport provides access to almost 50 international destinations including transatlantic air routes.

Equal Opportunities
We are an Equal Opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any protected classification.

What's on Offer

Apart from working in an open, relaxed and collaborative space, you will enjoy:

• Salary, stock and performance related bonus
• Maternity/Paternity Leave
• Employee stock purchase scheme
• Matching pension scheme
• Education Assistance
• Relocation and immigration support (if needed)
• Life, Medical, Income and Travel Insurance
• Subsidised memberships for physical and mental well-being
• Bicycle purchase scheme
• Employee run clubs, including, running, football, chess, badminton + many more

Minimum Qualifications:

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

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

*References to a particular number of years experience are for indicative purposes only. Applications from candidates with equivalent experience will be considered, provided that the candidate can demonstrate an ability to fulfill the principal duties of the role and possesses the required competencies.

Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.

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