Job Description
Senior Staff Network Automation EngineerEquinix is the world's digital infrastructure company, operating 200+ data centers across the globe and providing interconnections to all critical clouds and networks. Businesses need one place to simplify and bring together fragmented, sophisticated infrastructure that spans private and public cloud environments. Our global platform allows customers to place infrastructure wherever they need and connect it to everything they need to succeed.
At Equinix, we help the world’s digital leaders scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver outstanding experiences, and transform people’s lives. Our culture is based on partnership and the growth and development of our teams.
We hire hardworking people who thrive solving exciting problems and give them opportunities to hone new skills, and try innovative ways, as we grow our product portfolio with new software and network architecture solutions. We embrace diversity in thought and contribution and are committed to providing an equitable work environment. That is foundational to our core values as a company and is vital to our success.
Job Summary
- Automate, test, and troubleshoot Container and Virtual Machine based networking services
- Liaise with various internal functions across Equinix and external vendors to certify and validate network platforms and services
Responsibilities
- Provide hands-on technical expertise for network and infrastructure automation
- Automate test and validation of networking services based on Containers, Virtual Machines and hardware-based networking devices
- Setup end-to-end test case automation by leveraging available automation tools and vendor APIs from networking devices and traffic generators such as Spirent and Ixia
- Work with the team to identify automation opportunities. Lead hands-on code development and integration effort to achieve end to end automation for test case staging, execution, reporting and other pieces of workflow
- Hands-on involvement in System Integration Testing (SIT) and other certification efforts for networking products
- As an automation lead, promote, encourage, and guide team members towards automation adoption
- Assist other departments with technical queries relating to the resulting design of the product & services
Skills & Experience
- Proficiency in network and infrastructure automation, preferably using Python
- Extensive experience in Kubernetes Cluster and orchestration
- Hands-on experience with network virtualization, SD-WAN and other networking technologies
- Self-starter; works independently and within a team across different countries and time-zones
- Culturally aware and adept at working across multiple geographies
- Able to operate in stressful situations with time-bound work
Qualifications
- 5+ years experience
- Bachelor's in Computer Science or related field preferred
Equinix is an Equal Employment Opportunity and, in the U.S., an Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to unlawful consideration of race, color, religion, creed, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, place of birth, citizenship, sex, pregnancy / childbirth or related medical conditions, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic partnership status, age, veteran or military status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, political / organizational affiliation, status as a victim or family member of a victim of crime or abuse, or any other status protected by applicable law.
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