Senior Network Engineer

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Permanent contract
Paris
Salary: Not specified
A few days at home
Skills & expertise
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Serverless
Scaleway
Python
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Job description

Fondée en 1999, Scaleway est la filiale cloud du groupe Iliad, l’un des leaders des télécommunications en Europe. Notre mission est de favoriser une industrie numérique plus responsable en aidant les développeurs et les entreprises à créer, déployer et adapter des applications à n'importe quelle infrastructure.

Depuis nos bureaux situés à Paris et à Lille, nous perfectionnons quotidiennement l'écosystème cloud de Scaleway, dont nous sommes les premiers utilisateurs.

Nos quelques 25 000 clients nous choisissent pour notre redondance multi-AZ, notre expérience-utilisateur fluide, nos datacenters neutres en carbone ainsi que nos outils natifs de gestion d'architectures multi-cloud. Nos produits incluent des solutions entièrement gérées pour le bare metal, la conteneurisation et les architectures serverless, offrant ainsi un choix responsable dans le domaine du cloud computing.

Rejoignez notre équipe dynamique de près de 600 collaborateurs venant de divers horizons, dans un environnement stimulant et international alliant excellence technique, créativité et partage.

About the job

At Scaleway, Network Reliability Engineers (Network SRE) are highly independent and self-organized individual contributors who make packets flow in right directions. As a Senior Network Reliability Engineer, you will develop and maintain our always growing network to provide the best bandwidth to our customers.  

Minimum Qualifications

  • You’ve been engineering networks for some considerable time  
  • You know how TCP/IP, Ethernet, BGP, MPLS, IPv6, and all these things work beyond the level of a vendor certified config copy-paster  
  • You’ve heard something about IP Fabrics and EVPN  
  • You have your own point of view on the SDN buzz; the difference between automation and orchestration looks rather clear for you  
  • Your are not scared of DWDM, multiplexers, transponders, amplifiers and fiber optics in general  
  • You are also not afraid of code. Not necessarily at a professional developer level but when there is a need to RTFS or sort an array, you know what to do
  • You are familiar with the latest trends in the networking industry: new protocols, last RFCs, key actors etc
  • Very good command of English
  • Technical Environment

  •  Half a dozen of datacenters in several countries  
  • Near 150k physical servers  
  • 10+ Tbps of Internet backbone capacity  
  • A lot of custom hardware, including network  
  • A bit (a few thousands) of traditional vendor devices as well  
  • REST APIs  
  • A lot of Python  
  • Linux in all possible variations  
  • Responsibilities

  • Maintain and grow our rapidly growing backbone and DC  network infrastructure: deployments, upgrades, migrations, peering sessions etc 
  • Design and develop new architectures  
  • Be always motivated to learn and test new technologies  
  • Hunt for new knowledge and contribute to the team's continuous self-education  
  • Communicate with other teams to prepare new deployments  
  • Communicate with external parties: vendors, partners, network experts all over the world  
  • Contribute to the network monitoring improvement  
  • Tune performance, flexibility, and maintainability of the network  
  • Create and maintain documentation and procedures to ensure scalability, manageability, stability and security of the network  
  • Little things here and there: troubleshoot ISIS, reproduce a bug, add prepends to a BGP route etc  
  • Location

    This position is based in our offices in Paris, Lille or Toulouse (France)

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