Lambda is hiring a
Senior Network Engineer in United States, Canada

Summary

The job is for a Network Engineer at Lambda to help scale their high-performance cloud network, contribute to network automation, design software-defined networks, manage Spine and Leaf networks, ensure network availability, and deploy monitoring tools. Required qualifications include leading production-scale networking projects, BGP experience, Linux command line proficiency, Python programming skills, and understanding the Linux networking stack.

Requirements

• Have led the implementation of production-scale networking projects
• Experience managing BGP
• Have experience with Spine and Leaf (Clos) network topology
• Have experience with multi-data center networks and hybrid cloud networks
• Have experience building and maintaining Software Defined Networks (SDN)
• Are comfortable on the Linux command line, and have an understanding of the Linux networking stack
• Have python programming experience

Responsibilities

• Help scale Lambda’s high performance cloud network
• Contribute to the reproducible automation of network configuration
• Contribute to the design and development of software defined networks
• Help manage Spine and Leaf networks
• Ensure high availability of our network through monitoring, failover, and redundancy
• Ensure VMs have predictable networking performance
• Help with deploying and maintaining network monitoring and management tools

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with OpenStack
• Experience with HPC networking, such as Infiniband
• Experience automating network configuration within public clouds, with tools like Terraform
• Experience with configuration management tools like Ansible
• Have led implementation of production-scale SDNs in a cloud context (e.g. helped implement the infrastructure that powers an AWS VPC-like feature)
• Deep understanding of the Linux networking stack and its interaction with network virtualization
• Understanding of the SDN ecosystem (e.g. OVS, Neutron, DPDK, Cisco ACI or Nexus Fabric Controller, Arista CVP)
• Experience with Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFW)