Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Dayforce is a global human capital management company that offers a unified Cloud HCM platform. The Senior Cloud Network Engineer will play a pivotal role in managing network infrastructure, ensuring high availability, and collaborating with various teams to resolve customer-impacting issues.
Responsibilities
- Provide overall technical direction and strategic leadership for the delivery of highly available and scalable network infrastructure. This includes edge networking, caching, global backbone, data center networking, load balancing, and network security across both public and private clouds
- Take on a lead role in efforts to support and troubleshoot availability, performance, product, and infrastructure issues within production environments
- Collaborate closely with cloud engineering, SRE, support, and product teams to ensure timely resolution of customer-impacting issues
- Implement automated configuration and deployment process improving network functionality, availability, and performance
- Develop infrastructure-as-code across both public and private clouds using industry best practices
- Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of network infrastructure using rich telemetry data
Skills
- Solid foundation in networking including routing, switching, security and load balancing
- Fluency in Azure Cloud Networking with a strong understanding of protocols such as BGP, TCP/IP, DNS, SMTP, HTTP, and routing across globally distributed networks
- Demonstrable experience in operating multi-regional environments incorporating Azure networking technologies including Azure Virtual WAN, Application Gateway, NAT Gateway, VNet Peering, Azure Firewall Premium, Azure NSG/ ASG, Traffic Manager, Front Door, ideally at a global scale
- Expert knowledge of load balancing technologies (e.g. Azure/AWS LB)
- Expert knowledge of network edge security providers (e.g. Cloudflare)
- Proficiency in one or more automation languages (e.g. Python, Terraform)
- Extensive experience with cloud-based security architectures, tools, policy automation, governance, and application monitoring
- Experience with observability products including commercial APM tools, ELK stack, Azure monitor, Prometheus, and Grafana
- Demonstrated ability to deploy and manage the lifecycle of cloud services
- Strong program and project management experience, demonstrating the ability to identify, prioritize, and successfully execute competing priorities
- Ability to balance the needs for exceptionally high availability, performance, and scalability while reducing costs
- Strong written and verbal communication skills across both technical and non-technical audiences
- Ability to lead discussions about complex solution design tradeoffs and drive conflict resolution
- Ability to thrive and adapt in a fast-paced, high-growth, and rapidly changing environment
- Ability to obtain US security clearance
- Certifications from Azure or AWS are a bonus
Benefits
- Excellent time away from work programs
- Comprehensive wellness initiatives
- Recognition through competitive pay and benefits
- Volunteer days
- Dayforce Cares charity
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